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Response to the Office of Rail and Road’s November 2017 consultation on improving assisted travel

Status of Publication: Published/Completed
Date produced: 2018
Authoring organisation/Author affiliation: Transport Focus
Type of Resource: Policy and Regulation
Impairment area(s): Pan-impairment
Transport mode(s): Train
Journey stage: Unspecified
Region: Great Britain

Document summary

We welcome the opportunity to respond to this Office of Rail and Road (ORR) consultation. We believe that despite infrastructure and on-train facility improvements over the last two decades, the level of the assistance provision service has failed to register such a significant improvement over the same period.Transport Focus’s predecessor bodies undertook a series of mystery shop surveys over a number of years to assess the efficiency of passenger assistance. We have noted some improvements during the course of these, but it seems from ORR’s own research that several aspects of assistance need significant improvement. We trust that the outcome of this consultation will contribute to resolving such issues

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