What's The Story?

This colourful, active and inclusive image shows a group of children and adults using a pelican crossing. Pelican crossings use pedestrian operated controls to control the flow of traffic. The correct time to cross is indicated by a "green man" on the traffic light and a "red man" indicates not to cross. These signals are accompanied by a bleeping sound to help people with a visual impairment know when to cross. The paving by pelican crossings uses "tactile paving" that is paving stones with raised bumps to alert people with a visual impairment to a hazard. These environmental signals have become part of our everyday lives and non-disabled people will hardly notice them.

This picture shows two children using tricycles. The trikes have raised backs to offer the children more support and straps are used to secure the children in their seats and to keep their feet on the pedals.

The boy with his hands on his ears possibly has autism and finds the "bleeping" sound stressful - he is trying to block the sound out!

Click here to visit a speech enabled website that will give you more information about types of pedestrian crossings.