| Tuesday, February 06, 2007 |
| Travel for the disabled: New website to help disabled travellers in Bristol |
Here comes a new website that provides travel information and advice, much-needed resource for disabled and less mobile people in Bristol, the United Kingdom.
The website www.gettingaboutgreaterbristol.org will be launched on February 8.
This would be the only online resource that brings together details about what suitable transport exists for disabled people wanting to travel around Weston-Super-Mare, Bristol, Thornbury, Bath and Radstock.
The website has been set up by Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset councils working with Bristol Physical Access Chain and an independent consultant.
The Disability Discrimination Act and other pressures are making improvements to the transport system, but the site provides local information about travelling using many different forms of transport.
The website, particularly aimed at the disabled and less mobile, has been designed to be completely accessible to all users. The clear layout makes it easy to navigate.
The font size and colours have been carefully chosen so that visually impaired people and people who use a screen reader can understand the text. Since the website is updated every month, the information is unlikely to become out-of-date.
The new website will help fill the gap left by Tripscope, a well-used and popular information and advice line that finished at the end of March 2006. It links to the webpages of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC), which advise the British Government on access for disabled people to transport.
The site will significantly improve upon the only area specific information currently circulating, the Getting About booklet, last published by Avon County Council in 1997.
Algy Seymour, chairperson of Bristol Physical Access Chain, said "the new website promises to be a well-designed and very accessible resource. The details and advice found on the website at the moment are a great start, and we hope that users and other travel organisations will be in contact with additional information to help build it up."
Further travel information and advice that may be of use to website users as well as requests for further information about the website can be submitted to the contacts detailed on the website itself.Labels: Travel |
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