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These are called "Tactiles"..for the visually impaired..not sure whether it is part of the building codes now. but apparently, it is supposed to warn them of hazards.
nono i know wat they are...
wat i mean is.... how does the visually impaired go out his house and reach that danger zone in the first place.
and wat makes authorities think the visually impaired wont know that there is a road until they are standing only 50cm away from it?!
I am sure i wonder in the same way as you. Are these really for the visually impaired? Do these tiles really safeguard their navigation of the city?
Or is this some money siphoning venture by these tile makers and contractors? And maybe some 'clever' idea from a returning PSC scholar/ influential person's kid? Instead of spending these money on these tiles? Are there more urgent matters like making buses wheelchair friendly?
Or don't you think, it should be some concerted efforts where people from these neglected urbanites all submit their Cahiers de Doleances (lists of grievances) and a project be executed once and for all? Why should there be 10 times of upgrading? (One for wheel chair bound, one for elderly friendly stuff, one for the visually impaired, one for the young couple with pram, one for the short school children, one for the hearing impaired etc) instead of one good one?
oh and i thought your "for WHAT?" was aimed at the stump in the middle of the "Tactiles", that the visually impared might hit the stump and get confused or something. haha.
fyi this is not limited to singapore. its actually very common in shanghai and many other major chinese cities, surprisingly.
nono.... in shanghai and chinese cities and even in taiwan.... u have tactiles leading pple from the front of their houses to the stop in front of the road. here in spore they short cut and put only the stop in front of the road.
this design implies the visually impaired will only be visually impaired once they reach the road junction then.
haha i get what u mean...in japan its everywhere too.. i only saw one blind person using it so far though...she used it till a part, then her house or something is up a road...without the tactiles...she continued walking though...
anyway i think we can never really 'visualise' it like the blind... but at least i think these tiles aid their 'visualization' and 'memory' in one way or another...
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