Give Way to Pavement for Blind, Let Love Be Unobstructed!

As an important supporting facility in urban road construction, the pavement for blind provides convenience and safety for visually impaired people. It not only reflects the humanistic care of a city but also measures the degree of its civilization. This article introduces the characteristics, uses, and types of tactile paving surfaces( pavement for blind bricks) as well as how to reasonably design pavement for blind.

Characteristics, Uses, and Types of Tactile Paving Surfaces

Types of pavement for blind bricks

Pavement for blind bricks are designed specifically for visually impaired people and are divided into three types: linear guiding bricks, dot warning bricks, and danger warning guiding bricks, with larger dots on the danger warning guiding bricks.

Characteristics of pavement for blind bricks

Tactile paving surfaces are produced according to national industry standards with excellent design, featuring sensitive tactile sensation, strong corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and long service life. Pavement for blind bricks have both beautiful and smooth surfaces, suitable for indoor and outdoor decoration. The concave-convex pattern not only makes pavement for blind safer but also beautifies the surroundings.

Uses of pavement for blind bricks

Pavement for blind bricks are mainly used for paving on urban roads, train stations, bus stations, subway platforms, intercity railways, and pedestrian walkways. They are specialized facilities for guiding the visually impaired to walk safely without obstacles. In cities, they inform visually impaired people of the specific locations of major municipal facilities and building entrances. Adhesive tiles can make pavement for blind bricks stick more closely to the pavement, assisting visually impaired people in understanding their surroundings. For example, at various pedestrian crossings, the entrances to city squares, bus stops, pedestrian overpasses, subway entrances and exits, building entrances, subway platform edges, and obstacles on sidewalks. Regular environments and facilities allow visually impaired people to move conveniently guided by their white cane, such as standing curbs, flower beds, and walls on the outer side of sidewalks, serving as the best passages for visually impaired individuals.

Pavement for Blind Should be Designed Reasonably

Pavement for blind should differ in color or material from the adjacent sidewalk paving

Common pavement for blind colors are mostly medium yellow, divided into linear pavement for blind and dot pavement for blind. Linear pavement for blind has a surface with stripes to guide visually impaired people to walk straight ahead by sensing with their feet and white cane; dot pavement for blind has a surface with dot patterns to serve as reminders.

The laying of pavement for blind should ensure the safe walking and orientation of visually impaired people

Pavement for blind needs to have reminders at places requiring safety warnings and prompting, and its length should correspond to the required range of safety warnings and prompts. Linear pavement for blind should have reminder pavement for blind at the start, end, and turns, with a width not less than 300mm, and not less than the width of the linear pavement for blind. For example, pavement for blind should be set at the upper and lower edges of curb ramps, at the start and end points of stairs, etc.

The laying of pavement for blind should avoid obstacles

The laying of pavement for blind should be continuous and avoid obstacles such as trees, utility poles, guy wires, and signs protruding from walls. The distance from the edge of the sidewalk, walls, flower beds, greenery strips, and tree pits should comply with relevant standards.

No facilities should occupy pavement for blind

In real life, it is still very common for pavement for blind to be occupied by cars, shared bicycles, fences, and bollards, causing many visually impaired people to prefer walking along the curb to avoid injury rather than using pavement for blind. This not only affects the civilized image of the city but also infringes upon their legitimate rights to participate equally in social life.

For visually impaired people, pavement for blind is their "navigator" and "lifeline" providing safe travel, and it is also an important bridge for them to integrate into society and live a normal life. No person or unit is allowed to illegally occupy it. Let us work together to monitor pavement for blind in accordance with the law, keep pavement for blind unobstructed, and protect the travel of visually impaired people!