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 > >