January 2020
- Will York be first city to ban private cars? Council bosses back plans to end ‘non-essential’ vehicle journeys in city centre by 2023
- York bids to test driverless shuttle for disabled people
June 2020
Big changes at one car park and free taxis – how York is keeping the city open to Blue Badge holders
August 2020
- Disabled drivers slate Blue Badge changes in York
- Coronavirus: Disabled people face discrimination from COVID traffic schemes
- Council accused of patronising disabled people over city centre access
September 2020
- ‘We feel banned from York city centre’ – protest over disabled access
- ‘We feel like we’ve been banned from York’: Campaign launched to reopen footstreets to disabled people
- How have changes to York city centre affected residents with disabilities?
November 2020
- Some York streets may shut for good to traffic – but campaigners hit out
- York traffic ban extension prompts disabled ‘exclusion’ fears
December 2020
‘Loss of dignity’ – legal threat over York pedestrian zone
March 2021
“Blue Badge exclusion forcing disabled to go elsewhere”
June 2021
- Fury as blue badge ban in York pedestrian zones set to be permanent
- City centre ban on blue badge drivers has had ‘horrific’ impact – but it is set to become permanent
- Outrage as York council set to make ban on blue badge holders driving in the centre permanent
- Access for disabled people: ‘People like me can’t visit our city centre’
July 2021
- Council ‘used pandemic as Trojan horse for city centre access changes’
- Should changes to the York Footstreets be for life not just during a pandemic?
- Councillors told they cannot take part in debate about disability access – because they are disabled
- Calls for better facilities and access to city for disabled people
- “Blue Badge changes offers little for severely disabled”
August 2021
- UK council accused of breaching human rights with new pavement rules ‘devastating!’
- Disabled drivers ‘very upset’ by changes which leave them ‘unable to access’ city centre
- Blue badge access: a campaigner and a council boss go head-to-head
- Why doesn’t the council realise blue badges can be a ‘lifeline to normality’?
- ‘Dropped kerbs don’t solve blue badge access’
- ‘Council transport boss has ‘blinkered’ attitude to blue badge holders’ – former Lord Mayor
- Cllr D’Agorne makes statement on York’s blue badge battle
- “Cllr D’Agorne has no clue on disability issues” – letter
- Protest over blue badges held at York council HQ
September 2021
- ‘Cllr D’Agorne isn’t listening to blue badge holders’
- “Maybe a High Court ruling would solve blue badge travesty”
- York pavement cafe licences extended
October 2021
- Have your say on fresh blue badge access ideas
- York blue badge changes have ‘taken away independence’
- York Blue Badge changes have ‘taken away dignity’ say disability campaigners and the Law Society
November 2021
- ‘Disabled people in York are being treated like second class citizens’
- ‘York council is trying to exclude disabled people from the city centre’
- ‘I feel as though my city has been stolen from me’
- York Council needs think again on blue badge ban plan – Helen Jones
- City of York Council to consider disabled driver access ban
- Disabled parking: York blue badge ban plan a ‘stain’ on city
- York Sight Loss Council reasserts objection to York council’s discriminatory traffic regulation order
- Disability campaigners urge City of York Council to drop ‘discriminatory’ blue badge ban
- York Sight Loss Council urges York Council to abandon blue badge ban
- York’s anti-terror measures make centre a ‘no go zone’ for disabled people
- No, York – disabled blue badge holders aren’t a terror threat or Covid risk
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