[passcoalition] Re: 7th Ave & 23rd Street

  • From: Gene Bourquin DHA <oandmhk@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:40:05 -0400

I totally agree. Passing by twice I noted confused pedestrians. 

Gene

From: mhansen1@xxxxxxx
To: passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [passcoalition] Re: 7th Ave & 23rd Street
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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