On Thursday on 25th April there was a session in the House of Lords Transport System: Failings that the Labour member Peter Snape set it out with the first few comments “That this House takes note of the case for a coherent plan to address the failings of the transport system.” Many other people took part in the discussion and when Chris Holmes who is part of the Conservative group spoke he began with this focus on Audio-Visual. Chris is also the Lord Holmes of Richmond which is based in Peterborough near Cambridgeshire. The whole of his text and indeed all of the others can be obtained from here but these first few words from Chris are as follows which is very interesting:

My Lords, it is a pleasure to take part in this debate. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Snape, on securing it. I declare my interests in the technology field as an adviser to Boston Ltd.

I will speak about accessibility and technology in transport. I begin with buses. In London we are incredibly fortunate with so many of our modes of transport—not least the accessibility of London buses, with their audio-visual output. In 2016 I was privileged to launch Manchester’s talking bus fleet. Other major cities have followed suit. We passed legislation to this effect a number of years ago. When the Minister comes to respond, will he say what this picture is looking like across the country? Is it still down to luck—where you happen to get on a bus—as to whether you can have that audio-visual information that so many of us require?