Document summary
Letter issued by DfT to clarify their position on the following issues. To ensure visually impaired passengers can use stations safely, it is a requirement to install tactile paving in stations to help with wayfinding and tactile paving on platforms to indicate the platform edge. These requirements are set out in RIS-7016-INS – Interface between Station Platforms, Track, Trains and Buffer Stops and the Persons of Reduced Mobility National Technical Specification Notice (PRM NTSN). With tactile paving for wayfinding, station projects are finding it difficult to install due there being no best practice available. With tactile paving on platforms, the requirements are set out in both documents which do not align.
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