Dangerous Signs

More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as in Invercargill, New Zealand, blind and vision-impaired residents are calling on the city's shopkeepers to put their footpath signs in safe locations – not where blind people will walk into them. Vision-impaired city woman Hannah Pascoe said she and others had knocked over signs when walking along city footpaths in recent times because they could not see them.

It was both embarrassing and dangerous, and the walking area of footpaths should be kept clear of signage, she said. A Southland Association of Blind Citizens member, Ms Pascoe has written to Mayor Tim Shadbolt urging the council to reinstate a bylaw limiting where shopkeepers may place footpath signs.

The council's environmental and planning services director, William Watt, said a council bylaw, in place until about 2006, restricted businesses to one sign each, with those signs to be placed on the outside of footpaths beside parking meters.

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