What is a shared surface?
Shared surfaces are spaces that motorists, cyclists and pedestrians can all use. The idea is that motorists will drive slowly because they know that cyclists and pedestrians are using the same space. However, shared surfaces take away the markings that visually impaired people use to orientate themselves, and by their very nature they are dangerous for deafblind people. If you can’t hear or see a car coming how can you feel safe on a shared surface?
Watch an interview with Sense campaigner, Jim Lewis where he explains further why shared surfaces are dangerous.
Get involved
Sense is calling on GLA to stop providing funds for the creation of shared surfaces until more research has been carried out to make them safe for all road users.
Demonstrate
We need your help to get this message across. So, if you are deafblind or an ally of deafblind people please join us at City Hall on 17 June. We will be joining forces with the RNIB, Guide Dogs, user-led disability organisations and residents’ groups to urge the GLA to stop funding these schemes.
We will post more details about the demonstration on the website soon, so do keep checking back. Or, if you enter your details below, we can contact you about the campaign.
Getting to City Hall.
Sign the EDM
Please also visit the Guide Dogs website, where you can send your MP an email asking them to sign the Early Day Motion (a petition, which only MPs can sign).
Register interest in campaigning
