Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Step-free Access: Battersea Stations - Oct 16
Wednesday, 17 October 2018 07:00
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Ms Nusrat
Ghani):...We are also pressing the industry to comply with its
legal obligations to ensure that work at stations meets current
accessibility standards, not only on flagship projects such as
Crossrail, the redevelopment of Birmingham New Street and
the Transpennine route upgrade, all of which are
delivering significant accessibility improvements, but as part of
the business as usual work of their renewals programme,...Request free trial
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
(Ms Nusrat Ghani):...We are also pressing the industry to
comply with its legal obligations to ensure that work at stations
meets current accessibility standards, not only on flagship
projects such as Crossrail, the redevelopment of Birmingham New
Street and the Transpennine route upgrade, all of which
are delivering significant accessibility improvements, but as part
of the business as usual work of their renewals programme, for
example by making sure that any replacement bridges have lifts or
ramps. It is also important that the industry meets its obligations
to anyone who needs assistance, whether they have booked ahead of
time or not...
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