Thank you very much, regards, Loretto.At 16:53 08/09/98 +0100, you wrote:
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>> Hello everyone!
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>> May I seek your advice please!
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>> At the moment I feel that I need eyes in the back of my head!!!
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>> The College is undertaking some traffic calming measures at present,
>> particularly to get motorbykers and cyclists to behave themselves when on
>> Campus ( hopefully I am not causing offense to anyone).
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>> Many of ours here consider it a G.g. right to ride and park anywhere which
>> is causing difficulties to our disabled community and also Mothers with
>> prams taking their children to the creche, and the rest of us!
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>> The other day I came to work and there in the middle of a pathway (used, I
>> hasten to add by all mentioned above) was a barrier. Don't know what to
>> call it, but will describe it! One piece of metal across one half of the
>> pavement with a space in the middle and another piece of metal across the
>> other half of the pavement, pedestrians must zig-zag to get through. No
>> chance for a wheelchair user.
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>> Can anybody advise me what their organisation has done (if anything) or what
>> may have been installed to do the job described above.
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>> I am not in favour of turnstyles which appear to be cloning themselves in
>> our trading outlets!
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>> Any help for a meeting called for tomorrow to discuss this (a bit after the
>> horse has bolted really, but people are trying) would be gratefully received.
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>> My thanks to you, Loretto.
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>The barrier you describe would have been wonderful at Southampton
>University, where I was a blind student. I remember standing at the
>corner of the refrectory block ;istening for cyclists coming down the
>slope towards this 'blind corner' from the opposite direction.
>Southampton banned cycling on the campus footpaths, but no-one on a
>bike seemed know that!
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>This sounds like a case of either the wheelchairs get through OR the
>blind and partially sighted make it? What about speed bumps or a
>low barrier at handlebar height instead? Blind students would soon
>learn where it was from the noise of the bike brakes squealing!
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>Stephen Lancaster
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