Jacqueline A Hayes

October 28, 2002

To whom it may concern:

I believe that you should spend your money on other things besides automated traffic signals, and truncated domes. The automated traffic signals are more harmful then helpful to the blind community. The chirping and beeping signals can get very confusing to us because, we count on the sound of the traffic. When we are trying to count on the automated traffic signals it is frustrating because the signals going off at the same time really cause us to loose our sense of direction. The truncated domes are also harmful to us because, we use the curb to indicate where the street is . We do not need something else to prevent us from crossing streets independently.

Jacqueline A Hayes