Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Copmanthorpe stepped footbridge

Network Rail is intent on installing a new, 96-step footbridge to replace a level crossing that currently has no steps. Copmanthorpe No. 2 level crossing is on a footpath between Copmanthorpe and Bishopthorpe, pleasant villages just outside York. It is currently sort of accessible: the path is dodgy, particularly on the Bishopthorpe side, but there…

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Dominic Lund-Conlon continues to lie about who made the decision to cancel all assistance

As we already know, Dominic Lund-Conlon, Accessibility and Inclusion Manager at Rail Delivery Group (RDG), has already made some questionable claims. He instructed the Accessibility and Inclusion Managers at all Train Operating Companies to cancel and refuse all disabled people’s assistance bookings during the forthcoming Storm Eunice. When those managers expressed concern, he told them:…

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