Closure of taxi rank at Chichester station is bad news for disabled passengers
Both sets of steps over the railway are steep and pose difficulties to anyone with relatively mild mobility issues.
The lift under the tracks is not accessible when the barriers are shut without possessing a train ticket/when minimal staff are not available to open them, as well as there being a number of occasions when the lift is not working due to service or electrical issues.
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Hide AdFurther, the crossing itself is frequently extremely busy with much jostling and consequent risk of falls, accidents, etc, with two opposing streams of pedestrian traffic endeavouring to cross at the same time, the minute the barriers go up. (I was once saved from schoolchildren barging by a quick thinking local security guard).
Network Rail is supposed to be enabling disabled access as part of its overall objectives. This proposal flies in the face of that.
It all seems, yet again, to be about profit (from the lucrative sale of parking permits) and not about people and their needs.
Helen C Hawdon, Stockbridge Road, Chichester