This is the awful moment a visually impaired man walks into the middle of a London road because he is confused by the large cycle lane.
The blind guy, named Andrew, had to cross a double bike lane after getting off a bus on West London’s Chiswick High Road. The scene was captured on camera.
He tried to find the curb with his stick so he could go onto the pavement, but he ended up wandering onto a side road.
Just as he made his way onto the path, a cyclist rode past.
He then began to tap his cane to help him locate lamp posts as a woman tried to help him get across the double-cycle lane safely.
The person he was meeting shared the video on X, formerly known as Twitter, and wrote: ‘The blind man I was meeting tried to get off the bus at the Chiswick High Rd stop he used before the cycle lane was built.
‘The bus was second at the stop. He became disoriented and ended up walking into the carriageway. He has stopped using this bus stop.’
There has been no sympathy for this man, with people saying that it was all set up for sympathy.
The problem is that in the UK, everybody is so cold. People would rather say they’re okay, which often puts people off helping other people. There is no community spirit in the UK, and if there is a little bit of spirit, it’s normally all phoney. Often, you would more likely see someone end up eating lunch with an old granny that you might have just helped across the road.
The argument is that the individuals who installed the bus lanes do so with the knowledge that passengers will have to descend onto a bike track rather than on the pavement, yet they nevertheless maintain the false impression that nobody will be harmed. They just don’t see that throwing passengers into a bike lane with traffic is a surefire way to cause accidents.
Have you seen the speed at which cyclists travel? Death is not impossible.
It would be interesting to learn how those in charge of cycle lanes and bus provision in London expect the disabled to cope.
Because I am handicapped, I am more afraid of bikes and bikes in bike lanes than I am of moving vehicles.
The man who is blind should not need any help getting on and off a bus, and he should find himself on a safe pavement. This was not his fault; it’s the fault of the people who put them there in the first place, and it seems that London has lost all common sense.
Sadiq Khans London. If you don’t get killed by a stabbing or someone on a bicycle, you’ll get killed by Khan – well maybe not him, but definitely by one of his bike lanes.
In the eagerness for our government to go ‘green’, they’ve discarded common sense completely, and very few cyclists show any respect or consideration for pedestrians.
Think once, think twice, and think social media! If the guy recording was trying to draw attention to the issue, he should have gone over, offered his arm, and recorded it from the blind man’s point of view!
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