Also, please do note that the DfT's protestation against releasing the Equality Impact Assessment was ...

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that ministers and officials needed a "safe space away from public scrutiny".

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Transport for All are appealing the DfT's decision to not release their Equality Impact Assessment for closing ticket offices.

Just a tremendous amount of energy expended on this just to have us maintain existing often poor accessibility standards. Nothing has been improved. And probably an economist will get another 3000 words or so out of the very highly intractable problem of UK productivity.

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https://www.transportforall.org.uk/appeal-submitted-to-government-after-equality-impact-assessment-withheld/

Last day to help disabled people and railway workers keep ticket offices staffed.

Otherwise ... 974 ticket offices will close, certain types of ticket become unavailable, and turn-up and go stops.

Grim, isn't it?

Easiest way to help is to use the RMT's campaign tool: https://www.rmt.org.uk/campaigns/rail/save-ticket-offices/

Thanks to everyone who already spoke up.

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DNS reports that turn up and go, already under threat, may be made impossible by ticket office closures.

> Tony Jennings, co-chair of a rail accessibility panel and co-founder of the Campaign for Level Boarding, said disabled people’s right to TUAG and “spontaneous and independent travel” would be under “serious threat” if the closures went ahead.

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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/right-to-turn-up-and-go-for-disabled-rail-passengers-under-serious-threat/

Association of British Commuters research shows closure of ticket offices will in effect remove a whole class of ticket, costing some of the most vulnerable railway users considerably more money.

Removal of boundary fares around the TfL border will result in "price hikes of up to 190% for an off-peak day return to Dartford, and 243% for a peak-time day return to Epsom, Surrey."

Via Disability News Service.

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https://abcommuters.com/2023/08/10/ticket-office-closures-mean-londoners-will-pay-double-for-day-trips-outside-the-tfl-boundary/

Train operating companies have extended the deadline from today to 1st September, extending the 21 day consultation to 8 weeks.

(News via Transport for All)

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There are 1 and a bit days left to tell the train operating companies exactly what you think of closing 974 ticket offices.

All the deets you need are in my megathread: https://mastodon.me.uk/@agvbergin/110662922105816200

Ultimately, I'm 💔 about the effects that job loss for ticket office staff will have on railway workers and disabled people.

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Longtime disabled activists Doug Paulley and Sarah Leadbetter launch legal action over proposals to close 974 ticket offices. They believe that the consultations are a smokescreen: I agree.

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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/activists-launch-legal-action-over-woefully-inadequate-ticket-office-consultations/

Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have written to ask the EHRC why they appear to have no interest in trying to uphold the Equality Act for any aspect of the DfTs proposals to close ticket offices. Via Disability News Service.

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https://dpac.uk.net/2023/07/an-update-on-our-work-on-ticket-office-closures/

Labour Metro Mayors have launched legal action to oppose ticket office closures.

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There are 11 days left to respond to the train operating companies' consultations on closing ticket offices.

Thank you to everyone who has already responded to protect jobs and keep the railway accessible for disabled people ❤️🚉

Transport for All have a guide (https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures/take-action/) and the RMT have a campaign tool (https://www.rmt.org.uk/campaigns/rail/save-ticket-offices).

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Strong response against ticket office closures here from Mayor Tracy Brabin and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

This is a stark illustration of the scale of the destruction intended by the DfT: "only 3 of the 69 stations in West Yorkshire would retain ticket offices".

https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/all-news-and-blogs/mayor-of-west-yorkshire-calls-for-halt-to-fundamentally-flawed-ticket-office-consultation/

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Sitting at Ramsgate station and there is a long queue at the ticket office. How can these be considered unneeded?
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Additionally! For disabled folks: Transport for All want you to email them with evidence of how inaccessible this consultation is so they can build an evidence base for a legal case.

They say "Photos of tiny posters in stations, screenshots of inaccessible or confusing websites - all is useful!"

Email: comms@transportforall.org.uk

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They haven't made it easy or accessible to object to these changes, you have to email each individual train operator.

However, there are resources to help:

Transport for All have a guide to objecting by email: https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures/take-action/

The RMT have a campaign tool that automatically sends an email: https://www.rmt.org.uk/campaigns/rail/save-ticket-offices/

Thank you to everyone who has taken action already, the volume of objection each operator receives is important.

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Do you have time this weekend to object to the closure of railway ticket offices?

London Euston, Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street and many other stations are affected.

This is an attack on the railway, its staff, and its most vulnerable passengers.

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Transport for All (a disabled people's org) have a massive campaign going against rail ticket office closures.

If you care about disabled people being able to use the railway, please join in and respond to the consultation. We need to do all we can to resist this attack on the railway.

https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures/

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Transport for All: Railway Station Ticket Office closures

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"Public consultations on rail ticket office closures across the country have gone live. After a year of lobbying, we now move onto the next phase of our campaign against them. And we need our whole community to speak out.

Respond to the consultations using our template letter of objection or write your own to stop these unjust reforms in their tracks."

https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures/