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Image source, Press Association<\/p>\n‘If access to buses and taxis is difficult, there will be problems’published at 10:44 GMT<\/p>\n
10:44 GMT<\/p>\n
Lauren Stanley
London<\/p>\n
Image source, Press Association<\/p>\n
This morning we’ve been hearing opponents of the pedestrianisation
\nscheme discussing accessibility for elderly and disabled as one of their key
\nconcerns. <\/p>\n
Back in April, one of the groups advocating for disabled
\nLondoners, Inclusion London, said it supported the mayor’s aims for making
\nLondon cleaner, safer and less congested, but that it had concerns that the
\nplans to fully pedestrianise Oxford Street could create new barriers for
\ndisabled people if accessibility is not properly considered. <\/p>\n
Last week, chair of Inclusion London, Adam Gabsi told BBC Radio
\nLondon’s Eddie Nestor: “I am a wheelchair user and rely on access and smooth travel to
\nget me to where I’m trying to get to. <\/p>\n
“The proof
\nwill be in the pudding. If access to buses and taxis becomes difficult, then
\nthere’ll be problems for people like me.”<\/p>\n
He said
\nthat although disabled Londoners were consulted on plans, it wasn’t co-produced
\nby disabled Londoners.<\/p>\n
Another access group, Wheels for Wellbeing
\nargues that Oxford Street’s transformation could be a major accessibility win
\nfor disabled people, but only if buses, mobility aids, accessible cycling, Blue
\nBadge parking and step-free transport are properly built into the final design.<\/p>\n
And sight loss charity Guide Dogs said it was “delighted that large parts of Oxford Street are now traffic-free”.<\/p>\n
“With approximately 214,000 Londoners living with sight loss, and thousands more vision impaired people visiting the capital every year, the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street will improve safety and accessibility,” said Clive Wood, lead policy and campaigns manager.<\/p>\n
“We welcome the move and look forward to continuing to work with TfL to ensure the redesign goes beyond simply removing traffic, creating a space that is genuinely inclusive and easier for everyone to navigate independently.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘If access to buses and taxis is difficult, there will be problems’published at 10:44 GMT 10:44 GMT Lauren…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-665759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}