| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Footbridge at Chiswick Station | |
| Posted by: | Diane Brown | |
| Date/Time: | 12/08/25 09:15:00 |
| The needs of disabled people aren't a 'vague unspecified' concept and it is quite easy to quantify it when it comes to public transport. The bus network is designed to ensure that the walking distance to the nearest stop is always below a certain number. All that needs to be done is that this concept of ease of access be extended across all public transport type and that total journey times between the bus network and tube and rail be a deciding factor. It is not as if your method of simply prioritising the stations with the largest usage is actually the way accessibility has been introduced in this borough. Although Kew Bridge is on the list published by the government recently, that brought no more money for making it step free and, even if that is eventually forthcoming, you haven't provided a good explanation as to why it had to wait so long. Kew Bridge, Gunnersbury, Chiswick Park, South Acton, Turnham Green, Stamford Brook all remain inaccessible and it seems to me that the best explanation as to why there is this cluster of stations which many disabled people can't use in this area is that priority is based not on need, not on station usage but on the people in power prioritising their own areas. |