AllanP
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Lowered pavements.Far be it from me to criticise the easier access for wheelchair users to mount pavements with their mode of transport. But isn't it a hazard to the blind populace?
How can those unfortunate people with sticks etc. determine just what is or is not a safe footpath?
The ups and downs of everyday footpaths or pavements in general are confusing to say the very least, let alone being a worry to try to overcome by the non-sighted, although I do admit I don't have any answer to this problem.
Far too many car owners are being given permission by councils to create driveways in front of dwellings to be of any use or benefit to our invalids.
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AllanP
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Re: Lowered pavements. | AllanP wrote: | Far be it from me to criticise the easier access for wheelchair users to mount pavements with their mode of transport. But isn't it a hazard to the blind populace?
How can those unfortunate people with sticks etc. determine just what is or is not a safe footpath?
The ups and downs of everyday footpaths or pavements in general are confusing to say the very least, let alone being a worry to try to overcome by the non-sighted, although I do admit I don't have any answer to this problem.
Far too many car owners are being given permission by councils to create driveways in front of dwellings to be of any use or benefit to our invalids. |
Obviously the general opinion of posters to this thread is, given the hundreds of answers, not interested!
Blind people is not an issue here.
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Lord Blackadder
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Sorry ... didn't spot this one!!! 
You are of course right ... but how many blind people are out and about on their own with a dog, a helper or a long stick to guide them?
There's your answer, Allan. Not enough to warrant much attention from either authorities OR sighted people!
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Carol
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Allan thinking back to my previous home county Clackmannanshire, the drop down parts of the pavements have ridges on them which would define them from the normal stretch of pavement. And generally you would go from one to another, ie step off one side of the road, to the same on the other side.
Whereas rural Perthshire in some villages ie my own, didn't have kerbs in some areas (and some stretch of roads still don't) until recently. I navigated one last year without a kerb and fell on my knees 
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AllanP
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| Carol wrote: | | Whereas rural Perthshire in some villages ie my own, didn't have kerbs in some areas (and some stretch of roads still don't) until recently. I navigated one last year without a kerb and fell on my knees |
I do that too when I've had too much to drink. 
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Carol
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I was stone cold sober, so embarrassing!
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