🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

Dropped kerbs have now been installed on either side of this entrance way, this now enables people who use a wheelchair to cross 🙌

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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

With dropped kerbs now installed, people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross this entrance way 🙌

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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

Dropped kerbs have been added either side of this entrance way, meaning that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross and continue on with their journey 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

“These new powers do not go far enough to protect pedestrians | Living Streets

“These new powers do not go far enough to protect pedestrians. It’s disappointing not to see a nationwide prohibition.”

Our @charitycat.bsky.social responds to the news that local authorities will receive legal powers to restrict pavement parking. https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/pavement-parking

Pavement parking options for change: government response

Beyond disappointed that the government has gone against what the majority of respondents supported in the consultation

With subjective wording and leaving enforcement up to local authorities will not solve the problem

#PavementParking #AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

www.gov.uk/government/c...

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

Proper dropped kerbs with yellow tactile paving have now been installed here, making it easier for everyone to cross the road 🙌

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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

A new dropped kerb has been added either side of this junction for access to the pavement 🙌

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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

New dropped kerbs have been installed here, meaning that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross

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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

The dropped kerb here is now flush with the road surface, making it easier for people who use a wheelchair to cross the road 🙌

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It's a pity some of this doesn't rub off on the folks in #TfL who manage Outer London roads because we have missing dropped kerbs and tactile paving, overgrown vegetation and missing green men on TfL's junctions.

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

These dropped kerbs on either side of the entrance way have been widened slightly to make it easier for people who use a wheelchair to cross

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Frustrating to have to listen to this, but the pressure has to be kept on.

We need a national ban and then let council's proposed places where they wish to provide footway parking through the democratic process, including assessing the equality impacts.

Pavement Parking: An Unhappy Fifth Birthday | Streets Ahead We wish the government's pavement parking consultation its unwanted fifth birthday

NEW POD EPISODE! 🚨An unhappy fifth birthday. Five years and four prime ministers since the pavement parking consultation ended, and still no action.

What will it take to reclaim pavements?

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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

New dropped kerbs with yellow tactile paving have been installed here which means that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross this junction 🙌

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🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

Great to see that dropped kerbs have been added here so that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross this junction 🙌

Would have preferred yellow over grey for the tactile paving though!

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Written Statement: Side Road Zebra Crossings in Wales | GOV.WALES Ken Skates, Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales

Holy moly - Welsh Government have approved side-road zebras! www.gov.wales/written-stat...

Bluesky hivemind: which topic(s) would you like to hear us at @podstreetsahead.bsky.social discuss next?

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

Proper dropped kerbs have been installed here now meaning that people who use a wheelchair are able to cross this entrance way 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

New dropped kerbs have been put in which means that people who use a wheelchair will now be able to cross this entrance way and continue on with their day 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

Dropped kerbs have been added to both sides of this junction which will now enable people who use a wheelchair to cross the road 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

Dropped kerbs have been installed either side of this entrance way. This means that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross and continue on with their journey 🙌

#AccessibleStreets 🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦼🧑‍🦯

Have sent you a DM 👍

🎉🎉SUCCESS🎉🎉

The surface level of this entrance way has been raised to be the same level as the pavement, meaning that people who use a wheelchair are now able to cross 🙌

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Oops, forgot to add. I did start off reporting via council website (sometimes difficult what category a missing dropped kerb goes under), and eventually was asked to stop doing it via website and just email in a doc outlining them all.

Happy to send you a copy of a report etc if you like. DMs open

By doing it on a ward basis, it also makes it easier to go back & check if work has been completed (Cllrs aren’t the best at keeping you updated even when they say they will).

Some councils are better than others. I’ve had one council fix an issue within a month & another took 5 years…

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Documenting it on a ward basis allows me to

1. Keep track of everything better
2. Hold Cllrs to account

I also have a doc that tracks all email correspondence with Cllrs/Highways teams so I know what the latest is with each ward & when I first submitted a report for each ward.

2/n

I initially reported them as I saw them, but soon felt there was a better way of doing it

Cllrs have to win elections & are keen to show any tangible difference that they can have in their ward

1/n

That's it, the end of the thread! Five spots where accessibility can be improved across Cathall ward in the Waltham Forest.

A document highlighting these was sent to the relevant councillors on 02/11/25

Surely we want our streets to be truly accessible for all.

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On the far side of the junction, there is no dropped kerb to access the pavement

At the junction, on one side there is no dropped kerb for access to the pavement

The lack of a dropped kerb here on side where the bin is, results in people who use a wheelchair not being able to cross the road.

📍 Trinity Close/Granleigh Road junction

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On the far side of the entrance way, the dropped kerb is not flush with the carriageway

A metal ruler shows the kerb upstand to be roughly 30mm

Screenshot from Google Maps shows the pavement interrupted by an entrance way to a car garage. On one side of the entrance way, there dropped kerb is not flush with the road surface of the entrance way.

The lack of a levelled pavement or suitable dropped kerbs here makes the pavement difficult or even inaccessible for people who use a wheelchair.

📍 Stewart Road (outside Grays garage)

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