HANWELL - Step Free Access - Just one side!?
Reading the article about step free access from the redevelopment of Hanwell station, although there are indeed two new fully serviceable lifts, if you turn up in a wheel chair to the main station entrance on Campbell Road, you'll need first to be lifted up 4 steps to get the lift for that 'step free access'..otherwise you are obliged to wheel your self back to Church Road, under the bridge to the other entrance on Station Approach Ave where it is indeed step free! Apparently, the contractor had proposed putting in a ramp on the main station side but the council said they would not pay for it as they would be resurfacing the large waiting area which would deal with the issue. When ??, no one seems to know, so if you are expecting to access the lifts step free for the foreseeable future, remember to access the station from the Station Approach side. Safe travels...when that is possible again after the current pandemic lock down.
Mike Lakin ● 1866d2 Comments