From: sojacobson@mmm.com
Subject: Re: NYC new crossing scheme
Brian,
If your comment, "True, it is not specifically a blindness issue," was 
in response to my comments to that affect, I want to be certain that it 
is understood that I think this issue is important to us as blind 
people.  My intent is only to make the point that this is truly an issue 
for all non-drivers and even the occasional driver.  It should be 
possible to get a good deal of oposition on this one.  It would be better 
for blind people if our position could be seen as part of a large group 
affected negativwely, rather than seeing this as something that affects 
us primarily.  I am certain that senior citizens might, for example, 
object to this.  Some public policy that hurt blind people hurt others as 
well, but we are seen as the only victims or sometimes complainers.  
> True it is not specifically a blindness issue, the New York City
> crossing scheme  but considering someone may have to cross the
> interesction three times to get to where they used to be able to
> go in jut one crossing, it can be a major inconvenience,
> especially for people with fairly limited mobility skills.
> 
> Actually while in New York City I found most of their streets
> fairly easy to cross as they have long light cycles and generally
> plenty of parallel traffic to let you gauge the start of the
> light cycle.
> 
> And most of theri streets are little four lane jobs.  When i was
> in Toronto we seemed to have an awful lot of 5 lane an up
> crossings, and a few 8 and ten lane crossings with four way
> signals.  darn close to the corners from hell itself.
> 
> 
> 
> ... If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL!
> 
--
          Steve Jacobson
          National Federation of the Blind
          3M Company 
          E-mail:  SOJACOBSON@MMM.COM
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the 3M Company.
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