Video transcript of 17 June 2009 demonstration

On June 17 2009 hundreds of people representing dozens of disability organisations stood outside City Hall telling Boris Johnson to stop funding shared surfaces. Shared surfaces are areas which motorists, pedestrians and cyclists can all use. Shared surfaces are dangerous for deafblind people. If you cannot hear or see cars coming how can you stay out of their way? The Greater London Authority have ploughed £13 million in to the construction of a shared surface in Exhibition Road in west London. The organisations protesting on June 17 were calling on them to stop providing this funding until the safety of disabled people has been guaranteed. To find out more about the campaign against shared surfaces go to www.sense.org.uk/sharedsurfaces.