Talk:Persons with reduced mobility legislation

Expanded, but needs non-UK Input

I've reworked this so that it identifies all four EU PRM laws (air, maritime, buses and coaches, and trains), rather than implying the air-travel law applies to all modes of transport, and clarified that it applies to any transport passing through the EU at any point of the journey(mostly important for air travel). I've added buses and coaches to the coverage, but I couldn't determine at a quick google whether the UK's derogation from mandatory driver disability awareness training still applies. It had an initial period of five years from 2013, but I can't find any update on what was decided in 2018. I believe there are derogations from some other areas of the PRM legislation, but don't know the details. I completely rewrote the section on railway accessibility as it took the initial promises of access improvements at their word, where the reality is the cuts to the access improvement budget started almost immediately, and it didn't address the trains themselves, which are the main focus of the PRM TSI regs. I've also updated for the late 2019 waivers on mandatory railway carriage retirements and PSVAR problems for school buses, but a lot of this is subject to change. The rail waivers are for a year, and rail-replacement coaches may also be subject to change - lots of instances of people thinking PSVAR didn't apply to them and the government being not much wiser, then a last minute panic.

Any further expansion might address how the PRM laws differ from Westminster originating UK disability laws in mandating an enforcement body, rather than expecting disabled people to bring prosecutions themselves, as seen with, for instance, the Equality Act 2010. For balance it may be worth addressing areas where UK law goes beyond PRM; there aren't many, but the promise of a max of 2 hour required notice for access support while traveling by train from 2023 (versus 48 under PRM) is an example.

But the major problem is this is all UK-focused, the other EU nations and their national implementations aren't covered at all. Not to mention that the UK isn't part of the EU or EFTA anymore, so the definition of where PRM legislation applies also needs some rework. 86.14.177.228 (talk) 19:18, 2 February 2020 (UTC)