Disabilities (making the Highway safer to use)
We are constantly looking for ways in which we can help people
with disabilities. For example, we are providing more Pelican,
Puffin and Toucan Crossings. We are also installing tactile paving
surfaces (the increasingly familiar 'blistered' paving is being
introduced wherever there are pedestrian crossing points -
'ladder/tramline' paving is used to distinguish the footpath from
an adjacent cycleway).
Red tactile paving is used to assist partially
sighted people to detect the presence of controlled crossing points
such as zebra crossings and signal controlled crossings.
Buff coloured tactile paving helps to distinguish
uncontrolled crossing points such as dropped kerbs and pedestrian
refuges.
In the case of signal controlled crossings, the tactile paving
is laid so as to lead partially sighted people to the push button
box.
Current initiatives include:
