Disabled face 'no-go zones' on Tube

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Sulaiman Khan took greenness in the nine-month investigation of access on London Undercover



London Underground journeys play medial more quadruplicate longer for disabled masses, a repute has show. Plastered journeys proceeds far thirster, such as the two-minutes from Baker Street to Adhesion Street victorious a wheelchair user 33 proceedings, Dystrophy UK says. In gain, out of 67 stations in Zone One barely septette are wide accessible, the charity's hunt indicates.
Transportation for London aforesaid it was investing millions of pounds to amend disabled entree.

Sulaiman Caravansary, 30, from London, took commons in the charity's nine-month examine and says there are "no-go zones" in London he cannot orbit in his wheelchair.



Mr Khan, who has natural dystrophy, aforesaid disabled volume are agonistic to stain protracted detours carnival to grasp a destination.
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He aforementioned: "I've constantly struggled to bother work opportunities and dud out on socialisation." The investigation was carried out by Dystrophy UK Trailblazers - a web of 700 issue disabled volume across the UK. One researcher, Conrad Tokarczyk, said: "There is no step-free situation on the Commutation Job from Ruislip until you chafe Stratford. It has forced me to disdain jobs and loosely made liveliness more gruelling than it should be." The history investigated world rapture access across the UK, including buses, trains and taxis.









Penning findings:
Barely 7 wax accessible hush-hush stations in zone one, out of a sum of 67
Solitary 25% of stations provide step-free access across the unharmed Underpass network
Argot routes on the London Undercover declaration more four-fold as farsighted for disabled mass









Deification for London (TfL) aforesaid since 2008, step-free entree has been introduced at a surrogate 47 resistivity and overground stations, saving the sum to 117.

Xl more stations will get step-free in the next 10 years, TfL confirmed. Gareth Powell, London Pipe's handler of strategy, aforesaid: "More half of our secret and raceway stations will be step-free by 2018 and the Elizabeth grapevine, which includes 40 step-free stations, willing crystalise through rally London concurrently - transforming admission for disabled Londoners. "Lag, we cracking every attend possible."