Around a quarter of Queenslanders with a disability have reported bad or very bad experiences catching public transport, but a raft of upgrades are on the way.
Peter Tully is a "public transport fanatic," regularly catching trains up and down south-east Queensland for his work as a disability consultant.
A survey, by Griffith University and Queenslanders with Disability Network, also found only 40 per cent of respondents with a disability could catch public transport every time or most of the time. He said while this fleet was built with consultation from accessibility focus groups, expectations and standards had since changed.
A Commission of Inquiry into the fleet was handed down in 2018 and found the trains, ordered under the Newman government, did not "fully comply" with the Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport. "There is still a way to go to meet our target of all stations meeting accessibility standards," she said.The federal Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 deemed all public transport to be fully accessible by the end of 2022, with the exemption of trains and buses until 2032.
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