Dockland Light Railway [DLR] and Access Issues with 2 carriage trains

Update: 12/8/24 - The Scandal of Disability Hate Crime on the DLR .....

My experience ....

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The withdrawal of three car trains on the Bank-Woolwich & Tower Gateway - Beckton [and other lines, some of the time] has seen a return to the bad old days of poor accessibility for many disabled people

Having spoken to the DLR management, it is clear they are not interested in sorting these access issues, leaving the DLR network very poorly resourced for people with a range of impairments

Many of the solutions to these issues are quite simple and cost efficient, for example audio and visual signage to indicate which part of the platforms are in use



Here are two common scenarios that now occur

#1 Being on the part of the platform no longer served by trains and with no information about which parts of the platform are not use - issues for disabled people unable to get to the train before it departs

#2 Audio announcement telling people move to the center of the platform to board, causing congestion in the center of the trains and preventing disabled people from boarding - pretty stupid, uh ?

I don't know why the DLR can't make these simple changes to make their services once again more accessible for disabled people and in line with what the rest of the TFL network has done

What do you think ?

Please let me know

BFP