Madam,

Visually-impaired people are not happy either.

We thought that, after previous interaction with the council over infrastructure projects that discriminated against the needs of VIPs (Visually Impaired People), those needs would be taken into account here.

This council has already had to spend extra money that it can ill afford on trying to improve access for the disabled at the bus station and extra work was needed at the new pelican crossing after it flooded.

Now we have very poor paving which needs altering as soon as possible on Chalybeate Street. Especially if, as the council says, this will become a main thoroughfare into town.

It will be obvious to most that the raised bubble pavement is incorrect.

The tactile paving should line up and also be ramped. Good practice is also to have a tracking strip across the whole pavement as has been employed outside the railway station.

There are other road junctions in Aberystwyth where this is not the case and these need to be altered too but this is new – how did it come to pass?

Yours etc,

Moth Foster,

Chair, Visually Impaired People’s Action Group,

12 Rhyd-y-bont,

Aberystwyth.

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