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"Simply incorrect": DfT dismisses suggestions it's downgrading accessibility commitments


02/04/2025 in News

A passenger, assisted by staff, uses the disabled ramp to board a ScotRail train at Partick station. ALAMY.

The Department for Transport has branded suggestions that it is downgrading commitments to accessibility as “simply incorrect”.




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