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The Department should within 12 months review the roles of enforcement bodies with responsibilities for transport accessibility and prepare to legislate where necessary: • to ensure that all have consistent and sufficient powers at their disposal, and have both the powers and resources needed to intervene formally at lower thresholds than is currently the case; • to assess whether such bodies should be given the power and resources to act on breaches of the Equality Act general duties and the Public Sector Equality Duty in matters within their remit, in order to facilitate swifter resolution of breaches and take some of the burden of legal action away from individuals; • to ensure that no transport mode, including the street environment, is left uncovered by an effective enforcement regime; and • to assess whether a single body with responsibility for enforcement across transport modes would be more effective at asserting the rights of disabled travellers and bringing about systemic change. (Conclusion, Paragraph 167) 80