Shouldn't the annicdote and response also be sent to DOT?? If we wait for
Mat...
Ellen
I sent Maria?s anecdote and Gene?s response to Matt, since he?s been copied on all the stuff to try to get a meeting and just told him that this is an example of why it?s so urgent that that a meeting happen now.
Karen
Karen Luxton Gourgey Ed.D., Director
Computer Center for Visually Impaired People
Baruch College, City University of New York
One Bernard Baruch Way, Box H-0648
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (646) 312-1426
Fax: (646) 312-1421
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/ccvip/
From: passcoalition-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:passcoalition-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maria Hansen
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:33 PM
To: passcoalition@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [passcoalition] Re: 7th Ave & 23rd Street
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
- >
- >
