Better Keep Left Signs

Back in December, I was moaning about the carbon intensive and less than robust design of our keep left bollards. I am happy to say that we have started introducing a more robust design that uses natural reflection, thus:



This is kind of thing is being dealt with under a report coming to the next Executive on public design. Making our street furniture more sustainable is admittedly only a small part of the whole.


The most controversial aspect of this report is likely to be the "shared surface" agenda. This is the idea of reducing barriers between road surfaces and pedestrian areas to blur the distinction between the two. Road safety is supposed to be maintained by drivers and pedestrians maintaining eye contact. It is controversial with disabilitiy groups, notably the RNIB, for obvious reasons.