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Old November 9th 04, 05:21 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Clive D. W. Feather Clive D. W. Feather is offline
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Default Too many bus stops in london?

In article , Mrs Redboots
writes
My sister-in-law thinks it's very funny that the bell-pushes on modern
buses have markings in Braille on them - by the time you've found the
bell-push, would you actually need the Braille to tell you that you
have?


IIRC, there's a class of mainline train that has a *fake* push button on
it[*]. Nevertheless, the DDA Mafia insisted that it have a Braille
label.
[*] There's a good reason for this - the door in question is operated by
breaking a light beam. If your body doesn't break the beam, reaching out
to the button will.

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