Public Transport Improvements

Access for people with disabilities

We are particularly concerned to provide as good access as possible to all those with mobility handicaps, including people with disabilities and people with temporary access problems.

Wandsworth Mobility Forum

We organise a Mobility Forum twice a year for people with mobility difficulties to meet transport providers and policy makers, to discuss transport proposals and issues raised by disabled travellers.

For further information, copies of the minutes and agendas, and dates of upcoming meetings, visit the mobilityforum or contact John Slaughter on 020 8871 6293.

We are assisted by Transport for All which is an information provider and advocacy group for Londoners with mobility difficulties visit www.transportforall.org.uk for details.

You can visit Disabledgo.info to find detailed information for disabled people to access services and businesses in the borough.

The pedestrian environment

We attach a high priority to pedestrians with a disability and have recently completed a programme to provide tactile paving and dropped kerbs at all signal-controlled crossings on the local road network in the borough.

Public transport services

We seek to ensure that all forms of public transport are accessible to people with mobility difficulties. The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 places a duty on public transport providers to ensure that all the services they operate are accessible by 2015. All scheduled bus services operated by Transport for London are now operated by accessible low floor buses.

Lifts are currently being installed at Clapham Junction and Southfields stations and a new lift has opened at Balham main line station. Lifts are also planned at Putney and Earlsfield stations by 2013.

The Council has carried out an extensive programme of improvements to bus stops in recent years to make them more accessible to wheelchair users and those with mobility impairments. Wandsworth now boasts one of the highest proportions of accessible bus stops in London with nearly 90% of bus stops on borough roads accessible.