Access For Disabled Rail Users

EDM number 5 in 2010-12, proposed by John Leech on 25/05/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Disability discrimination and Railways.

That this House appreciates the efforts made to allow disabled persons to use rail services as easily as possible; notes, however, that having to give advance warning of travel by wheelchair-bound persons constitutes a great inconvenience for such rail users; further notes the timekeeping, health and safety and practicality issues involved in having to store mobile ramps for use at stations; calls for more research into the possibility of fitting automated disabled access ramps to all new rolling stock put into operation in the UK; and further calls on the Government to examine every possible development which could lead to this being put into action.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.