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My name is Mary Jo Partyka and I live at 40 Samdin Blvd. in Trenton. I am submitting comments, concerning the bill which the Access Board wants to pass in regard to the audible traffic signals.

I have never seen an audible traffic signal in operation. But as a person who has been blind all my life, I think that these signals could actually be more distracting. They also take away the blind person's faculty of judgment. If a blind person listens and waits until all the parallel traffic has passed, he should know that this is the appropriate time to make a street crossing. In some communities these signals may be needed but not everywhere. Having these audible traffic signals also instills in the minds of the public that blind people aren't able to make decisions about when to cross the street and this isn't true. We need to make the public see us as more capable, not less so.