On the anniversary of a report condemning the use of shared space, Transport for All joined the National Federation of the Blind (NFBUK) for a day of action outside Parliament.
Read full report and letter to the Prime Minister
Around forty Disabled and older people, as well as representatives from organisations in the Disability sector from all around the UK, gathered on the 24th April to protest against shared space and attempt to force the Government to implement the recommendations of the Women and Equalities Select Committee report on Shared Space without delay. This Report called ‘Building for Equality – Disability and the Urban Environment’ condemns the use of shared space roads. It calls for the schemes to be halted, all existing schemes to be reviewed and modified, and for the underlying Guidance for shared space to be withdrawn and replaced with inclusive design guidance.
But a year later, the recommendations have still not been implemented. This is why TfA along with Inclusion London and 48 other organisations, signed NFBUK’s letter to the government.
The letter to the Prime Minister was signed by;
- National Federation of the Blind of the UK
- Transport for All
- Inclusion London
- Blind Veterans UK
- Disability Rights UK
- Action on Disability, London
- Alzheimer’s Society
- Enfield Town Residents Association
- Merton Centre for Independent Living
- Kent Association for the Blind
- East Dunbartonshire Visually Impaired
- N-Vision Blackpool
- Fyde and Wyre Society for the Blind
- 4 Sight Vision Support, West Sussex
- Lincoln ad Lindsey Blind Society, Ramsgate
- York Blind and Partially Sighted Group
- Sight Support Derbyshire
- Insight Gloucester
- East Sussex Association of Blind and Partially Sighted People
- Leicester Disabled Peoples Access Group, LDP
- Sightseekers, Chorley
- Inclusion Scotland
- Newcastle Vision Support
- Oxford Association for the Blind
- Support 4 Sight Essex
- Berkshire Vision, Berkshire
- Camsight, Cambridge
- Galloway’s Society for the Blind, Preston
- Bucks Vision
- Forest Sensory Services, Forrest of Dean
- Sight Cmyru, Wales
- Wales Council of the Blind
- Peterborough Association for the Blind
- North Wales Society for the Blind
- Hackbridge Safety First
- Sutton Vision
- Maccsfield Eye Centre
- HERIB Hull and East Riding Institute for the Blind
- South East London Vision SELVIS
- Northamptonshire Association for the Blind
- Merton Vision London
- Vision North Somerset
- Wish Charity, London
- My Sight Nottingham
- Visually Impaired Merthyr Tydfill
- Eastbourne Access Group
- Yorkshire Coast Sight Support
- Evenbreak, Jobs for Disabled People
- I Sight Cornwall
- Vista, Leicester