New street designs are leaving blind people with the prospect of teaching their guide dogs new tricks.
Shared road surfaces and shared space schemes, under which segregation between motorists and pedestrians is removed, improve road safety because motorists instinctively drive more slowly. But blind and partially sighted people have warned that shared surface measures will effectively render the street a “no-go area” for them.
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