A BLIND man has told how he fears lives are being put at risk due to ‘flaws’ in the placement and design of a cycle lane in the heart of Glasgow.
now where I dread having to go into the city centre and try to avoid it as much as possible. I just feel like the safety of those with a visual impairment is being ignored. Trying to navigate across a cycle lane or around a floating bus stop is hazardous and improvements need to be made urgently.
He says that he has been fighting City Chambers bosses for five years to have issues such as those raised by Terry addressed.Councillor Mooney, 66, who lives in Cardonald, added: “The fact that people with loss of vision are finding themselves walking onto a cycle path at such a busy part of Sauchiehall Street is an absolute disgrace - it’s only a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt.
“We also need an urgent review of junctions across the city, especially the rotating cones at lights. They are a lifeline for people who have no other way of knowing when it’s safe to cross.”Audible beeping signals or rotating cones alert a person with sight loss when to cross a road. The cones are on the underside of pedestrian crossings signals and start spinning to allow people with sight loss to know when it is safe to step out.
"I can fully appreciate how Terry feels, I often think when I’m struggling to get around how hard it must be for others. “There are design solutions to be explored that both promote active travel and enable blind and partially sighted people to travel safely. This will meet the needs of all of our citizens."A spokesman for the council said: “The Sauchiehall Avenue was the pilot project for the other city centre Avenues that will follow and the design strategy sought to take the views of a number of different user groups into account, and balance their various needs.
“The dialogue at the forum has informed the work of the council’s design and engineering teams and is helping to ensure that new designs for streets and public spaces in Glasgow go beyond what is required by national standards.
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