Last Day to Comment on Closure of Ticket Offices
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ticket-office-closures-could-lead-to-huge-price-hikes-for-disabled-londoners/We had many more and much more accessibility for everyone on the nation's rail services when we had the Olympics here. There were ramps - which were available - and someone to put them in place for use - but now train travel has become a lot harder for everybody to access.You wouldn't think that we had laws about it being accessible, would you?If we want to get more people out of their cars then we have to provide alternatives and good public transport is one of them.Many young people buy their first car when they have a family. It should be made easier for us to all travel by train. It is very difficult to get on and off a train with a buggy and a toddler and all those difficult to climb steps and gaps and doors that you have to reach over to open and then swing open or shut. (I once swung right out onto the platform while opening one and had to jump - I think/hope the design has now changed! There are more sliding doors, I know.)I know that I don't like driving for hours any more the way that we once used to and would much prefer to get the train for long journeys - but our stations and trains need to be encourage that. Stations need to be step-free so that they are easy to access and easy to take a suitcase so we can still visit family and friends further away.Ticket machines can be difficult to read and difficult to use and often do not have the ticket options available on the internet. You also don't need to do your own printing and can have the assurance of that your ticket is valid and when the next train is from someone who deals with tickets every day in a ticket office which is a great boon for the occasional train traveller.
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