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A collaboration between Transport for London (TfL) and the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association has resulted in a change to the bylaw requiring all dogs to be carried on escalators. The update to the bylaw came into force on 5 October 2011, allowing visually impaired and other disabled people with trained assistance dogs to be able to use moving escalators legally for the first time on the Tube, Docklands Light Railway and London Overground. They may use the escalators in the absence of other means of accessing the stations

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association examined the safest techniques for taking dogs on and off escalators, testing them in conjunction with TfL. The research proved that dogs can be trained to travel on escalators.

A training course has been developed by the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, which guide dog owners will have to undertake in order to be able to use the escalators.