{"id":135003,"date":"2025-09-13T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135003\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:07:08","slug":"tube-strikes-disabled-commuters-face-accessibility-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135003\/","title":{"rendered":"Tube strikes: Disabled commuters face accessibility issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/travel-information\/improvements-and-projects\/step-free-access#:~:text=Currently%2093%20Tube%20stations%20(more,stations%20have%20step%2Dfree%20access.\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to TfL, external<\/a>, more than a third of Tube stations, more than half of Overground stations, and all of the Elizabeth line and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) stations are step-free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, disability rights activists point out that many step-free stations are not always accessible, even outside of strike action, due to broken lifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Due to the strikes, step-free access at the Bank DLR station was unavailable, with TfL advising customers to speak to staff to be escorted to alternative access lifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TfL said they &#8220;run as many services as possible&#8221; during strikes, including the bus network, Dial-a-Ride, and a turn up and go service on the Elizabeth line and Overground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latter service means that station staff will help customers to plan a step-free journey, assist them through the station and onto the train, and arrange for staff at the destination and any interchanges to support them off the train, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to TfL, external, more than a third of Tube stations, more than half of Overground stations, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-135003","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}