Tactile Paving Surfaces
The increasingly familiar tactile or 'blistered' paving is being
introduced at all new sites where there are
pedestrian crossing points. The more recently introduced
"ladder/tramline" paving is used to distinguish the footway 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.
