The newest in our Doing Life Differently series of guides, ‘Doing Transport Differently – How to access public transport – a guide for everyone with lived experience of disability or health conditions’ has information and travellers’ tales to inspire people to use all types of public transport.
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Today disabled people can travel much more independently. Still around a fifth of disabled people report having difficulties related to their impairment or disability in accessing transport, but there have been improvements: from low-floor wheelchair access in buses (which went up from 53% of buses in 2004/5 to 89% in 2009/10) to training of underground staff, bus drivers and railway staff.
Radar has published ‘Doing Transport Differently’ to let people with any kind of disability – learning difficulties, mental health conditions, visual impairments, hearing impairments, wheelchair users, mobility impairments and more – know what kind of access is out there, how to plan your journeys, and what to do if things go wrong. The guide is written by and for disabled people and is full of travellers’ tales – real experiences of using trains, buses, coaches, undergrounds, light railways, ferries and more.
