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Highways England Launches Access Guides for Motorway Services

Posted in General News on Friday, August 6th, 2021

By working in collaboration with DMUK Corporate Members, AccessAble, Highways England has launched detailed ‘Access Guides’ for each of the country’s 114 motorway service areas. Each of these Access Guides contains more than 1,000 pieces of information cover various key topics such as accessible parking, refueling and toileting facilities in specific detail including information on staff training levels. The Access Guides are available at www.accessable.co.uk or via the AccessAble App.

The two organisations have also worked together to create ‘virtual route guides’ this new type of guide utalises 360-degree images to enable visitors to virtually explore routes to key facilities so they know exactly what to expect when they arrive. Highways England Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager, Julian Horsler, said: We’re committed to ensuring our disabled customers can travel safely on our roads. We’re making good progress to ensure our roads and services are more accessible and inclusive, and there is lots more to do. Whatever the nature of your disability, the access guides for motorway service areas take the guesswork out of journey planning, giving you the information you need about facilities along your route.”

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Sunday, August, 8th, 2021

As a disabled driver motorways and there services areas have never been a real problem for me but going into city and town areas have with council closing roads at the drop of a hat and with complete disregards to any disabled people.