Ban elderly road signs
Road signs showing an old couple hunched over and struggling to cross the road should be banned because they make employers think older people are "frail and disabled".
Ros Altman, an advocate for pensioners, said the signs, which tells drivers to slow down for the elderly crossing the road, present old people as "stooped over and needing a walking stick" when the vast majority are fit and healthy.
Dr Altman wants the signs banned and plans to bring up the issue with the women and equalities minister Jo Swinson at a meeting next month.
She said: 'I would like to see the signs banned - just drop them. "I don't understand what purpose they serve - in this day and age, do we really need a say that says 'Warning: old people?' It's not very helpful to anybody. "It just feeds into the social stereotypes that suggest old people are disabled.
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But many old people ARE slow and shaky
7 comments:
I live in an area popular with retiree's and most have significant mobility impairment. To say all are frail is as idiotic as saying all blacks are athletic. Statistics are fact but can be easily twisted to suit the authors intent.
MDH
Surely the intention is that some nearby people are frail, if not then the sign is indeed pointless.
How stupid.
Obviously the sign means that you do not have to watch out for the sprightly seniors - only the slow frail ones!
Simple.
Everytime i see one of the little Ped Xing signs i expect to see one of those little figures to be crossing the street
Since it does not in any way say they are old, isn't it discriminatory to assume frail unsteady people are old?
We always laughed at the sign in our neighborhood that we thought should have said
"Caution
SLOW:
Children Ahead"
But the signs had no punctuation so most of the time it was read as "Caution
SLOW Children Ahead."
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