(Oxfordshire Transport and Access Group)
Achievements
We have…
- Received a National Transport Award for our work in 2013.
- Advised the governments Department for Transport on policy and practice – including the Disabled Persons’ Transport Advisory Committee.
- Requested national changes and updated standards (e.g. PSVAR) via Councillors, MP's and Peers
- Led national standards of Disability Awareness Training for bus drivers.
- Been judged independently to have done our job well.
http://www.mdctrailblazers.org/assets/0000/1411/_End_of_the_line__Report_FINAL.pdf
- Our predecessor organisation led the First National Low Floor Bus Exhibition in 1995.
- Led training sessions Oxfordshire County Council’s Environment & Economy officers in liaison with Oxford Westgate Shopmobility scheme called ‘Mission Impossible’. Here we encourage highway designers to gain personal experience of how good their designs and detailing really are for vulnerable road users.