From: Al and Masha Sten-Clanton 
Subject: Re: NYC new crossing scheme
Many programmers still use the ancient language of COBOL.  My first
manuals were copies of hieroglyphic "writings" that required the use of
highly skilled readers!  (Grin!)
Al
On 3 Jan 1998, Brian Lingard wrote:
> 
> 
> 3 January, 1998, Ottawa, Canada
> 
> 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!
> 
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