Context
Network Rail's current timetable to install tactile paving at all train platforms by 2029, with 35% of platforms being dangerous for blind and partially sighted people.
Question
If he will take steps to install full tactile paving installation across the entire rail network. Network Rail is still working to a timetable of installing tactile paving at all train platforms by 2029, some eight years away. Given that 35% of platforms are seriously dangerous for blind and partially sighted people, will the Minister commit to ensuring that every station has the basic safety measure of tactile paving in place by 2025?
Answer from Chris Heaton-Harris
I very much hope so. I have asked Network Rail to develop a programme to install platform edge tactile strips on every platform in Great Britain as soon as possible; I have yet to receive that programme. I will make a further announcement in the very short term.
Not addressed: The Minister did not commit to ensuring that every station has tactile paving installed by 2025, only hoping for it and promising a future update.
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