Joyce Cannon

October 21, 2002

Perhaps you can easily see where the edge of the subway platform is and therefore know how far back to stand to keep from getting bumped, even accidentally, into the rail pit. I am blind so I can't see the danger just one foot adjustment away. Too many people have already died, even some fully sighted ones, because there was no detectable warning at the edge of the platform. Please consider making detectable tactile warnings a reality. They will help ALL of us.

Traffic lights are equally dangerous to me. It is worse for us in small towns where there might not be an engine idling to hear, and then guess, when it is safe to cross. If there were an accessible pedestrian signal, I wouldn't be making drivers angry, as well as being in greater danger, by trying to cross at the wrong time.

accessible Pedestrian signals would assist drivers of all ages as well as those of us who can't see.

Thank you.
Joyce Cannon