The Newtown Neighbourhood Centre decided to highlight the ongoing accessibility problems that members of our community have at Newtown Railway station, and also with regard to other railway stations in the area and lack of appropriate alternatives. Newtown station’s accessibility is extremely limited and unsafe for people with a range of mobility impairments, older people parents with prams and anyone negotiating the station with heavy shopping bags.

The lack of access provisions, such as a lift, at Newtown station is preventing all these people from using the railway as an easy and safe means of transport. It is also preventing them from getting to our centre and the services and supports we provide. Those that use our centre as well as the general public have brought the inequity of this situation to our attention.

There are 8 railway stations within the Marrickville local government area and none of these are accessible and none that we are aware of are earmarked as ‘easy access’. In addition there are a further 6 (including Newtown) bordering the LGA. The nearest with easy access are Summer Hill and Wolli Creek, but neither is staffed for all services which limits this accessibility.

We here at the NNC feel that the case for Newtown Station to be upgraded is long overdue and now urgent. We urge you to join us in this campaign to make Newtown Station and other stations within the Marrickville Area accessible.

Letters
*Letter to Hon John Watkins MP NSW Minister for Transport
*Honourable Carmel Tebbutt, MP
*Letter to the editor (Glebe Newspaper)

Press Release
*A win for Newtown1
*A win for Newtown2
*Petition Newtown Railway