Citizen complaint of the day: Pedestrian signal should be for the birds
By lex.galloway - 3/13/11 - 9:44 pm
Filed on Citizens Connect today on Congress Street:
The sound on the pedestrian crossing signal is screwed up. It should sound like a bird tweeting but it instead sounds like a rapid fire recording skipping over and over.
Didn't think the bird tweeting sound could get any more annoying.
Comments
Yeah, try living next to one
Yeah, try living next to one of them. When they installed them at the intersection of _______ and _______, we didn't sleep for three weeks (and several hundred phone calls) until they came back to fix the install.
All night, every night it was NAA NUU, NAA NUU, NAA NUU, and then WAIT! WAIT! PLEASE WAIT!!!!, and then WALK!!! WALK!!! WALK!!!
I'm like, fucking sympathetic to the blind or whatnot, but do we really need intersections shouting at 3:30 at the same volume as at 15:30? No.
Oh, not only that...
I've been told by a number of blind people that the things are useless anyway because there are so few of them and they usually don't work, so they don't bother trusting them and will cross by sound, or ask someone, or rely on their guide dog if they use one.
Blind uhubbers, any thoughts on these thingies?
SHE SAID
BLIND UHUBBERS, ANY THOUGHTS ON THESE THINGIES!?
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I've Often Wondered...
... if, when at an intersection with many crossings and multiple "birdsound" devices, how someone might know for sure which crossing the sound is for? Obviously, if someone blind frequents that crossing, that person will get to know which is which, but how can someone tell with any degree of confidence upon first approach?
Suldog
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There are some that give
There are some that give directions
"Walk sign is on to cross Beacon Street, Walk sign is on to cross beacon street, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait"
The speakers are supposed to
The speakers are supposed to be directional, so you hear the one from the far side of the street you're trying to cross.
A blind person I know finds them helpful mostly because they help him find the other side of the street, without walking at the wrong angle, since there's no tactile stuff in the street to follow with a cane.
Theyre supposed to have
Theyre supposed to have microphones that detect ambient noise and adjust accordingly.
Everyone in Coolidge Corner
Everyone in Coolidge Corner knows to "walk like a dog across Harvard Street." But now they've "fixed" it.