Tactile paving is particularly useful at road crossings. The bumpy blister paving not only tells me that there is a road crossing, but what kind of crossing to expect. Similarly the stripy ...

The patterns are called tactile paving and they help blind or partially sighted people navigate their way around cities, towns, and villages. There is a 108-page government document online which ...

"And the changing times also helped." I recently walked across a pedestrian crossing in Okayama, the birthplace of the tactile paving system. From a block embedded in a memorial plaque, I learned ...

Eden Park station does not have the tactile paving that helps visually impaired people orientate themselves The death of a blind man who fell on to the tracks at a railway station was a "senseless ...