Safety
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Falls in trains gaps cause lifelong injury or death. Portable ramps can be unsafe.
450 falls occur in Sydney every year.
$1.7M for ONE lawsuit.​​

Choice and control
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Passengers are segregated and their choice to sit in any train car is limited. Sometimes people want to switch cars because they feel uncomfortable or unsafe in the one they initially boarded. Portable boarding ramps prevent this.


Lack of solutions for existing trains and stations
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Several prototypes have been developed but almost all of them are limited in some way or another. Many fall short of broad deployment and it's often not until cities and states are adopting brand new stations and trains where independent accessibility is truly solved.
Stories and articles
Sydney / New South Wales
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Sydney trains: Hundreds fall between trains and platform at every year - 9News
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Disabled man falls out of wheel chair from train ramp - YouTube
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Sydney’s worst train stations for access revealed in secret documents | 7NEWS
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Sydney’s least accessible train stations revealed | 7NEWS - YouTube
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Train Accident Calamity: Passenger Dragged Between Carriage And Platform | Carter Capner Law
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NSW Supreme Court finds for plaintiff in train platform accident case $1.1M - Wotton Kearney
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Can I Claim Compensation if I'm Injured on a Public Train in NSW? - Law Partners Injury Lawyers
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Millions of Aussie commuters warned after spike in injuries at train stations
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The 'unconscionable' state of Australia's train stations - ABC News
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Jeff Parker - The Blind Advocate​​ - Robbie's story (LinkedIn)
Melbourne / Victoria
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V/Line's sorry history of inaccessible trains - Waking up in Geelong
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Train Boarding Reservoir Station, Melbourne Australia - YouTube
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One size does not fit all: history's legacy of platform gaps putting rail users at risk –The Citizen
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Zoe Simmons - Metro Tunnel accessibility bungle, 50mm step for new $15B station - 9 News
London / United Kingdom
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​Improving disabled access to UK’s public transport ‘almost impossible’ | Disability | The Guardian​
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Elizabeth line gap repair delays at Ealing Broadway deemed 'unacceptable' | News UK | Metro News
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Girl, 4, falls four times due to huge gap between Elizabeth line trains and Ealing Broadway platform
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Effect of station design on death in the London Underground: observational study - PMC
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Man crushed to death by TWO TRAINS in London after falling through platform gap | 7NEWS
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Dog dies after falling down gap between the platform at Brighton Station


