Transport for London (TfL) plan to spend £18 million ($29 million/€22 million) to make all bus stops accessible to disabled and older passengers, and drivers will be trained to help disabled people board services.

Step-free access will be introduced to 28 Tube and overground stations over the next decade, it is planned.

Manual boarding ramps to help wheelchair users onto trains, introduced at 16 tube stations for the Games, will remain in place.


TfL said the Paralympics had made it change its approach to disabled users, who make 1.3 million daily journeys in London.

"London now has the most accessible transport network in the country and one of the most accessible in the world," said London Mayor Boris Johnson.

"But it's not perfect and we must go further - that's why we're investing hundreds of millions of pounds and using the most imaginative solutions and the latest technology to take the accessibility of the transport network to the next level."

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