A judge this month allowed a lawsuit over the safety of Chicago’s crosswalks for blind pedestrians to proceed as a class action. “The technology exists, and we need to have the same rights and the same access to safety as our sighted counterparts have.”
“I started to cross the street at an incorrect time and I almost got hit by a bus,” Brash said. “Two people grabbed me back, I’d love to thank those people. It was a close call, and it was so close of a call that it actually split my cane pretty much in half.”
Brash says crossing the street used to be simpler for blind people, who learn to listen for parallel traffic to start. But over the years, things like ultra-quiet electric cars, new intersection layouts, and changes to how walk signals are timed have made crossing the street more fraught. “We need to have the same number of seconds to cross the street as a sighted person has,” Brash said. “The technology exists, and we need to have the same rights and the same access to safety as our sighted counterparts have.”
The technology Brash is referring to is an accessible pedestrian signal, which gives audio cues to blind and low-vision pedestrians that it’s safe to cross. But according to the city, just 26 of Chicago’s 2,842 signalized intersections have an accessible device. “This being a service that the city provides to the general public, it has a duty to make it accessible to people who are blind as well,” said attorney Jelena Kolic ofAttorneys filed suit against the city, saying its inaccessible intersections violate the
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