Someone who is blind has just as much of a stake in a healthy environmental imprint as anyone else. Yet, when you hear a bicycle flying by, when the wizzing sound of the bike’s tires surprises you when it’s most often too late, when this is a dangerous impediment to smooth travel on public transportation, it’s serious and must be taken into account.

On this week’s episode of Outlook, we speak with Oriano Belusic about the recent results of a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal case he filed about dangerous bike lanes and “floating” bus stops in Victoria.

It’s a situation that matters because the environmental issue and the safety of all pedestrians, blind travellers who have no choice between car or bicycle, they are both of consequence. It is one form of city design that could and has spread to other cities around the country and the world. We need to be considered and included before, not after-the-fact.

On this latest show, we discuss Oriano’s early life growing up in Croatia, what he’s built as a life for himself here in Canada, and what he’s seen the need for the Canadian Federation of the Blind (CFB) to be.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-floating-bus-stops-human-rights-tribunal-1.5811152

https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/cycling-guidelines-need-to-be-revised-in-wake-of-tribunal-ruling-advocate-1.24243483