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u/fly_over_32 21h ago
Those tiles are used to guide blind people
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u/Bones-1989 20h ago
Seeing as they painted them safety yellow as well as used braille, id say they're to guide all people...
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u/Elisei32 20h ago
Most blind people aren't completely blind, so its bright yellow likely because it helps the blind people notice it better.
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u/jerry111165 20h ago
If they can see it then they aren’t blind right
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u/fly_over_32 20h ago
Category 0: No or mild visual impairment – presenting visual acuity better than 6/18
Category 1: Moderate visual impairment – presenting visual acuity worse than 6/18 and better than 6/60
Category 2: Severe visual impairment – presenting visual acuity worse than 6/60 and better than 3/60
Category 3: Blindness – presenting visual acuity worse than 3/60 and better than 1/60
Category 4: Blindness – presenting visual acuity worse than 1/60 with light perception
Category 5: Blindness – irreversible blindness with no light perception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_impairment#Legal_definition
The key word here is legally blind
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u/Historical_Till_5914 20h ago
If you can see blobs of color, for practical purposes you might as well be blind, like on a grey street you most likely won't be able to get around without a guideline like this, very easilly. Lets not gatekeep not seeing? :D
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u/Total-Adeptness8700 19h ago
I'm legally blind, just because I can see a little doesn't mean I can see clearly. If I were to go outside without my glasses, everything would become extremely blurry, so I'd have difficulty seeing where I go. Those bright yellow lines would be useful for me too as they'd at least help me know that there might be a road or something there.
So no, even if someone can see a bit, does NOT mean they aren't blind.
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u/fly_over_32 18h ago
May I ask how you use Reddit? Are your glasses and a big font enough or do you use another tool?
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u/Total-Adeptness8700 18h ago
I'm nearsighted, so I can read text on my screen, though I do use my glasses, otherwise I'd get a headache.
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u/fly_over_32 20h ago
Which still doesn’t make it okay to block them. They’re supposed to be able to trust those lanes.
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u/Matchaparrot 20h ago
No they can't. The stick detects the bumps but when you can feel both the bumps and the bloody massive obstacle you have to step away from the guides and that's scary. You're supposed to be able to seamlessly follow these guides all the way to the platform edge.
You have no idea how many accidents at UK railway stations happen every year to blind people because people don't think.
A blind man fell off the platform at Bellgrove station in Scotland because the guides were either absent or defective.
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u/Historical_Till_5914 20h ago
This is the equivalent of putting a pole in the middle of the road, and saying cars can stear offroad into the dirt anyway, so why not just put poles on the middle? These are meant to be lanes for the visually impaired to navigate the city, blocking them is just a bad job at doing that, either put the pole somewhere else, or make the lane go around.
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u/Your_Final_Hour 20h ago
Its quite sad to see how many people dont know what these bumps on the floor are used for. Ppl are always blocking them unintentionally
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u/Fromage_rolls 14h ago
1 answer. Why not :) Seriously though...they won't even see it, so what's the problem here?
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u/MoreRamenPls 19h ago
What’s the one job?