The Voice of Blind People! The NFBUK is a charity working to improve the overall welfare and quality of daily life for all blind and vision impaired people.
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This is what our President who is blind said about the bus stop design where you step off the bus onto a narrow bus boarder next to a cycle lane on Lea Bridge Road, Waltham Forest
‘Not fit for purpose. It really is totally inaccessible. These sorts of designs should be scrapped’
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.@GranadaReports Kevin is taking his fight against floating bus stops to @10DowningStreet tomorrow. It’s is shocking what has happened to bus stops in cycle lanes in Greater Manchester under @AndyBurnhamGM. Kevin wants to know what will happen if Andy becomes next Prime Minister?
Kevin from Rochdale & colleagues from London are heading to @10DowningStreet to petition @Keir_Starmer on Monday 15 June at 11am on the new DfT floating bus stop guidance. The consultation was a sham & the guidance is discriminatory. It must be withdrawn. It is unfit for purpose.
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E-bike takeaway couriers are routinely speeding in cycle lanes, mounting pavements and using their phones while riding, putting pedestrians at risk, an investigation by The Telegraph found
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/money/consum…
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We are fighting hard in Exeter too! Keep up the good work @NFBUK
The organisation representing blind people that has done more than any other to highlight the injustice of floating bus stops was pointedly ignored by SoS @Heidi_Labour as part of the consultation process on floating bus stops. It’s easy to see why.
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.@BBCRadioManc @BBCNWT Kevin is taking his fight against floating bus stops to @10DowningStreet tomorrow. It’s is terrible what has happened to bus stops in cycle lanes in Greater Manchester under @AndyBurnhamGM watch. What will happen if Andy becomes next Prime Minister?
Kevin from Rochdale & colleagues from London are heading to @10DowningStreet to petition @Keir_Starmer on Monday 15 June at 11am on the new DfT floating bus stop guidance. The consultation was a sham & the guidance is discriminatory. It must be withdrawn. It is unfit for purpose.
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The organisation representing blind people that has done more than any other to highlight the injustice of floating bus stops was pointedly ignored by SoS @Heidi_Labour as part of the consultation process on floating bus stops. It’s easy to see why.
Kevin from Rochdale & colleagues from London are heading to @10DowningStreet to petition @Keir_Starmer on Monday 15 June at 11am on the new DfT floating bus stop guidance. The consultation was a sham & the guidance is discriminatory. It must be withdrawn. It is unfit for purpose.
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Kevin from Rochdale & colleagues from London are heading to @10DowningStreet to petition @Keir_Starmer on Monday 15 June at 11am on the new DfT floating bus stop guidance. The consultation was a sham & the guidance is discriminatory. It must be withdrawn. It is unfit for purpose.
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A full a detailed investigation needs to be undertaken in Castleton in Rochdale as the cycle lanes is not fit for purpose on many levels. We focused on the floating bus stops here but there are many many dangerous designs flaws with this scheme 😢 @AndyBurnhamGM #Makerfield
.@AndyBurnhamGM Kevin from Rochdale has a question on floating bus stops in cycle lanes. He has raised concerns about these designs which are not safe or accessible for blind people in Greater Manchester since 2018, all which have been ignored. He wants an answer please.
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.@AndyBurnhamGM for example, who on earth puts level surface with no tactile paving at a green man controlled pedestrian crossing, which leads onto the main route into Manchester. Words fail on how blind peoples safety and accessibility has been ignored. x.com/nfbuk/status/179320336…
@AndyBurnhamGM @Mark_J_Harper this new schemes is in Castleton, Rochdale in Greater Manchester. It is unsafe & totally confusing, the cycle lane routed through the pavement, which you have to cross to get to the green man crossings. The tactile is a mess & extremely dangerous.
ALT The pavement has a cycle lane running through the middle which is has kerbs either side. There is a dropped kerb with beige tactile on the corner of the pavement which crosses over the cycle lane (beige colour) onto a tarmaced island. The elongated island has a controlled crossing on one end and another one on another side of the junction. Both have red tactile laid where it meets the road. However one of the controlled crossing points there is no tactile where it is level surface with the road which is very dangerous. On this controlled crossing there is just one pole with a push button crossing on it.
ALT This shows the elongated island with the one traffic pole with the one green man control box. It shows the red tactile paving and the lack of red tactile paving on the dropped kerb where it meets the road. This is not safe or accessible and is down right dangerous.
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Transport for London urged to halt Oxford Street plans due to fury over “sham” consultation
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.@danielmgmoylan we really hope @AndyBurnhamGM will answer Kevin’s question.
.@AndyBurnhamGM Kevin from Rochdale has a question on floating bus stops in cycle lanes. He has raised concerns about these designs which are not safe or accessible for blind people in Greater Manchester since 2018, all which have been ignored. He wants an answer please.
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.@andy4makerfield @AndyBurnhamGM @MayorofGM we would like an answer please @MENnewsdesk @GLythgoeNews
.@AndyBurnhamGM Kevin from Rochdale has a question on floating bus stops in cycle lanes. He has raised concerns about these designs which are not safe or accessible for blind people in Greater Manchester since 2018, all which have been ignored. He wants an answer please.
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.@AndyBurnhamGM Kevin from Rochdale has a question on floating bus stops in cycle lanes. He has raised concerns about these designs which are not safe or accessible for blind people in Greater Manchester since 2018, all which have been ignored. He wants an answer please.
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Who has designed/built this? They clearly need to learn a lesson like read #BS8300-1.
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More #YorkStationGateway errors. If there is to be a Zebra at this floating bus stop, then the tactile paving is the wrong colour. If not, cyclists have priority & not required to stop, so WRONG either way. Bus island is level with the cycle track beyond the crossing. WRONG ‼️
ALT Buff colour tactile paving leading to bus island of floating bus stop near Milner hotel.
ALT Stone flags on bus island completely level with black tarmac of cycle track without any form of kerb.
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Please ban floating bus stops. They are dangerous for blind people and cyclists do not pause to let them cross, relying on them to see them and jump out of the way. There are so many incidents now. @NFBUK
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Jun 12
The pavement is totally level with the cycle track at the crossing point. It’s also level to the right of the crossing which it shouldn’t be as it means a) blind people cannot detect the cycle track b) it allows cyclists to easily mount the pavement to overtake one another endangering pedestrians.
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More #YorkStationGateway errors. If there is to be a Zebra at this floating bus stop, then the tactile paving is the wrong colour. If not, cyclists have priority & not required to stop, so WRONG either way. Bus island is level with the cycle track beyond the crossing. WRONG ‼️
ALT Buff colour tactile paving leading to bus island of floating bus stop near Milner hotel.
ALT Stone flags on bus island completely level with black tarmac of cycle track without any form of kerb.
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Lords transport min @LordPeterHendy told peers on Tues: ‘I would expect all road users to observe their duty to comply with the law, which includes cyclists stopping at red lights.’
He must know that in London almost none now do, and there is zero enforcement. Cloud cuckoo land.
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