A wheelchair-bound woman has petitioned Brighton and Hove City Council for help over the Hove Station footbridge.
The bridge is the responsibility of Network Rail but Jennifer Keeble hopes that the council will work with Network Rail to make the station more accessible.
The petition was signed by more than 250 people and said: “We the undersigned call on the Department for Transport and Network Rail to fund improved access to the station via Hove Station footbridge.”
At a meeting of the council at Hove Town Hall yesterday (Thursday 27 March) she said: “I’m Jennifer Keeble, a disabled person, wheelchair bound when I’m out.
“I need to travel to London by rail to see family and friends.
“I need to visit specialist clinics in London and I want to travel to see the Sussex countryside.
“But there is no access for people like me on the north side of the passenger bridge.
“This is a large residential area. In Wilbury Avenue alone there are three care homes and the managers tell me that residents, who cannot afford taxis, feel marooned.
“The Blatchington Trust has just opened an education and activity centre next to this footbridge and it’s for partially sighted people, including children.
“These clients need better access.
“I sat at the bottom of the steps for just two half days and collected over 70 signatures from passengers crossing over.
“Passengers stated to me that the steps are not fit for purpose.
“I observed parents carrying buggies up and down steps with a baby in the buggy and a toddler following alongside but this exercise was often achieved with the help of fellow passengers.
“Luggage carriers, including older folk with obvious mobility problems, hauling luggage up and down.
“These are accidents waiting to happen.
“And many travellers expressing concern about the legality of poor access.
its been this way for many many years and now finally someone wants it changed… i guess its been talked of and plans made in the past but the alternative is not that bad .. its not really that far
its been this way for many many years and now finally someone wants it changed… i guess its been talked of and plans made in the past but the alternative is not that bad .. its not really that far
its been this way for many many years and now finally someone wants it changed… i guess its been talked of and plans made in the past but the alternative is not that bad .. its not really that far
Architect David Kemp, who lives in Hove Park Villas, has been giving the bridge some thought and done proposal designs for making the bridge DDA compliant.
The bridge is not the responsibility of the Rail companies. It is the responsibility of Brighton& Hove City Council. It oversails railway land but it is not a railway responsibility, except for access to it from the platform. No idea why, but that is the situation.
The nearest access from south of the lines to the northern side is under the Fonthill Road bridge which is scary and dark. Or over a bridge at The Drive. It is unacceptable for this to have persisted over the 100 years of this bridge.
Architect David Kemp, who lives in Hove Park Villas, has been giving the bridge some thought and done proposal designs for making the bridge DDA compliant.
The bridge is not the responsibility of the Rail companies. It is the responsibility of Brighton& Hove City Council. It oversails railway land but it is not a railway responsibility, except for access to it from the platform. No idea why, but that is the situation.
The nearest access from south of the lines to the northern side is under the Fonthill Road bridge which is scary and dark. Or over a bridge at The Drive. It is unacceptable for this to have persisted over the 100 years of this bridge.
Architect David Kemp, who lives in Hove Park Villas, has been giving the bridge some thought and done proposal designs for making the bridge DDA compliant.
The bridge is not the responsibility of the Rail companies. It is the responsibility of Brighton& Hove City Council. It oversails railway land but it is not a railway responsibility, except for access to it from the platform. No idea why, but that is the situation.
The nearest access from south of the lines to the northern side is under the Fonthill Road bridge which is scary and dark. Or over a bridge at The Drive. It is unacceptable for this to have persisted over the 100 years of this bridge.
this is the link to his “folly ” http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/2838205/?type=articleLandscape it includes glass panels with palm trees ? http://www.do-architecture.co.uk/railway-station-bridge-hove/ similar to the bridge of the Adur Ferry Bridge that cost over 9million and it had taken in to account wheelchair user and cyclists needs but what the planners have forgotten to take in to account is the original bridge still works perfectly well maybe an elevator would be a nice addition and a costly one and just might need a little side ramp to help cycles and the wheelchair users can easily get across the other side with
this is the link to his “folly ” http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/2838205/?type=articleLandscape it includes glass panels with palm trees ? http://www.do-architecture.co.uk/railway-station-bridge-hove/ similar to the bridge of the Adur Ferry Bridge that cost over 9million and it had taken in to account wheelchair user and cyclists needs but what the planners have forgotten to take in to account is the original bridge still works perfectly well maybe an elevator would be a nice addition and a costly one and just might need a little side ramp to help cycles and the wheelchair users can easily get across the other side with
this is the link to his “folly ” http://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/2838205/?type=articleLandscape it includes glass panels with palm trees ? http://www.do-architecture.co.uk/railway-station-bridge-hove/ similar to the bridge of the Adur Ferry Bridge that cost over 9million and it had taken in to account wheelchair user and cyclists needs but what the planners have forgotten to take in to account is the original bridge still works perfectly well maybe an elevator would be a nice addition and a costly one and just might need a little side ramp to help cycles and the wheelchair users can easily get across the other side with