Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 75720

Pedestrian Crossings: Visual Impairment

Tabled: 8 September 2025

Answered: 11 September 2025

Named Day

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of requiring local authorities to install (a) audible and (b) tactile signals on all pedestrian crossings on busy roads for blind and visually impaired peopl

Answer

Simon Lightwood

The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 permit the use of audible and tactile signals at traffic signal junctions and crossings, but the Department has no plans to make them mandatory. The Department’s good practice advice in Chapter 6 o...

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