[passcoalition] Re: 7th Ave & 23rd Street
- From: "Maria Hansen" <mhansen1@xxxxxxx>
- To: <passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:32:31 -0400
Thanks, Gene, but how is a blind person supposed to know this? Divine
intuition? Just another example of extremely poor communication!
Maria
----- Original Message -----
From: Gene Bourquin DHA
To: passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:24 PM
Subject: [passcoalition] Re: 7th Ave & 23rd Street
I stopped by this morning and took many photos. The corners are indeed a mess
but a define path is available to cross, delineated by giant plastic barrels
and mess fencing. I'll need to look close but I believe if you use the APS then
you are nowhere near the route to cross.
Gene
> From: mhansen1@xxxxxxx
> To: passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [passcoalition] 7th Ave & 23rd Street
> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:52:34 -0400
>
> Well, I just dropped off a few more bags of donated audio books to the
> library at Visions. I was coming from uptown so exited the subway on the NW
> corner. I was heading East and went to push the APS button. It was hard to
> reach because the garbage can was in front of the button. If a warning, not
> very obvious. When I got the signal, I proceeded East... well, not exactly,
> more like SE in to the west bound traffic on 23rd street. There seem to be
> some major obstacles there.
> I returned from Visions heading west on the north side of 23rd and listened
> for the APS locater. This was again hard to reach because of the garbage
> can in front of the button. Am I smart or what? I detect a pattern here.
> A nice passerby helped me around the construction or obstacle or whatever.
> Otherwise I would have been heading SW into the 23rd street west bound
> traffic.
> I wonder what the south side of the intersection is like and whether this
is
> going to be how things look for the next few weeks. Maybe some of this info
> has been communicated to the tennants of Selis but not to the greater
> community.
> I am very concerned. I know that we have a GDUNY meeting at the Library on
> 20th Street coming up on Saturday. People may find the landscape quite
> confusing and dangerous.
> Now let me add, there were no construction workers hanging aroung who might
> have been of assistance or even looking out for blind pedestrians.
> Maria
>
>
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