Shared Surfaces And Disabled People

EDM number 496 in 2008-09, proposed by Roger Berry on 19/01/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Roads.

That this House supports the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (Guide Dogs) and the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee in calling for a moratorium on new shared surface schemes in our towns and cities until the Department for Transport has published the results of its forthcoming research; recognises that in these schemes it is not possible for certain groups of vulnerable road users to use such areas independently because they cannot tell where the pavement ends and the road begins; and welcomes the research that Guide Dogs has already carried out to highlight the issue and to try to find an effective solution.

This motion has been signed by a total of 191 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.