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

[lauren]

hi, sorry to say, sometimes they don’t install the devices until someone has been injured or killed.

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> On Jan 5, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Jim McCarthy via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Sedmak via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 5:25 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
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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,
>