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Mar. 15th, 2004 12:32 pmThere's a fairly busy intersection downtown here, which I occasionally have cause to cross. Both of the cross streets are high volume throughout the day, and people tend to run the red lights here. It's downtown, and they're busy.
Recently the city decided to make the intersection safer for blind people. We'll have to be charitable, at least, and assume that was their intent. What they did was to add a piercingly loud beeper that sounds when its safe to cross the street. The problem is, it doesn't tell you *which* street its safe to cross, and the constant din makes it difficult to hear the traffic, which would otherwise tell you. The raucous beeping continues all through the 'safe to cross' phase. I suppose a few run-over blind people is a small price to pay for the moral satisfaction of having given an otherwise unemployable retarded guy a job in traffic administration.
Recently the city decided to make the intersection safer for blind people. We'll have to be charitable, at least, and assume that was their intent. What they did was to add a piercingly loud beeper that sounds when its safe to cross the street. The problem is, it doesn't tell you *which* street its safe to cross, and the constant din makes it difficult to hear the traffic, which would otherwise tell you. The raucous beeping continues all through the 'safe to cross' phase. I suppose a few run-over blind people is a small price to pay for the moral satisfaction of having given an otherwise unemployable retarded guy a job in traffic administration.
