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Railways: Visual Impairment

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 4680, tabled on 20 May 2021

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure the safety of blind and partially-sighted people while they use the railway network.

Answered on

26 May 2021

We have continued to support the Access for All programme that upgrades railway stations for disabled passengers, including those with visual impairments.

I have also asked Network Rail to develop a programme to aim to install platform edge tactile strips on every platform in Great Britain.