Exhibition Road has had the pavements and kerbs removed to turn it into
a place where pedestrians and vehicles don't quite know who is supposed
to be where. Apparently that's a good thing. Anyway, blind groups have
complained, so the former pavement area is now going to be covered in
.... wait for it... corduroy so that the blind will know when they are on
the former pavement area and when they are in the former road area.
Since the presence of the corduroy will also alert everyone else to the
location of the former pavement area, I can't help thinking that leaving
the original road, pavement and kerbs intact would have achieved similar
results with zero cost or disruption. No wonder the country's bankrupt.