[Electronics-Talk] How many accessible pedestrian signals do you have in your city?

[Jim McCarthy]

I have been reading this thread with some interest. It seems to me that much
of the time, the answer will be like Mike has said here that there is some
certain number in his area and he knows this because he asked for and got
their installation. What I have not noticed in the thread is a reason for
knowing how many there are. This is information a city transportation or
traffic department probably has but I think the number a jurisdiction has
does not matter very much. The trend of installation is more important to
indicate progress in the installation. It still bothers me that many
jurisdictions react as Fort Collins did for Mike, that is that they install
them in areas that blind people frequent or only when a blind person or
enough of us make the request. The result is that in many of the places
these are installed, they do not offer actual assistance to blind travelers
and in places where they would offer that help, they are not installed
because there is not an entity expected to be frequented by people who are
blind or because no requests have been made.    I suppose though that if the
trigger for installation is that there has been a request, I am glad Fort
Collins has responded as they have. In many instances, the answer is that
they are expensive so we can't or won't install. To me the right approach is
to have as a part of a long term transportation plan the goal of installing
some number per year. It also strikes me as best to rank intersections based
on criteria so that the really complicated ones receive the devices also. 
Jim McCarthy
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 5:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] How many accessible pedestrian signals do
you have in your city?

We have five in my corner of Fort Collins, CO.  I called the city traffic
operations engineer and asked him to install them on all the crossings I
frequent.  I would recommend asking for them in your area if you like them.


Our city ops said they are relatively expensive, so they only install them
when requested.

Thanks,
Mike

Sent from my iPhone, please forgive the typos. 

> On Jan 4, 2018, at 1:19 PM, Andy Baracco via Electronics-Talk
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Interestingly enough, I don't think that we have that many in the entire
city of Los Angeles.
> 
> Andy
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike via Electronics-Talk" 
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> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] How many accessible pedestrian signals do you
have in your city?
> 
> 
>> How many accessible pedestrian signals do you have in your city or 
>> area? In the greater Daytona Beach Florida we now have 32 of them.
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> Mike
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