Disability groups have called for the abolition of 'floating bus stops', with one campaigner describing blind and visually impaired people crossing them as 'like playing Russian roulette' cycling
."I use a long cane to help. Some people have a guide dog and they are trained to stop at the kerb, but it can only recognise a kerb with a minimum height of 60mm.
"Buses are normally much more accessible than trains to take us to places we want to go to like shops. Public transport is extremely important to us and these cycle lanes are all over the country. "People can see cyclists coming along, we can't. What we are asking for is that the bus pulls up next to the pavement kerb, where we can get on and off the bus safely.
"The emphasis is very much on cyclist access, I have nothing against that, but much of the infrastructure that is put in place has negative impact on not just blind or visually impaired people, but many other disabled and elderly people as well."2016 analysis by Sustrans