General Road and Highway Discussion

[tomh009]

I also have seen little about how roundabouts can be made accessible to the visually-impaired, for instance: if there is no signal at them, and they are expected to wait for a gap or a yield from motorists, I'm not sure how that works.

Our cities (and especially suburbs) are not very friendly to the visually impaired.  There are no warnings on the sidewalk surface for streets, edges or direction changes (compare that to Tokyo, below, for example):



Many streets have only stop signs, either in one direction or in all directions, so it's not just roundabouts that are dangerous to the visually impaired.  If we want them to be able to safely walk in our cities, we need a large-scale rethink of how pedestrian traffic works in our cities.