![]() The department estimates a $50,000 to $200,000 price tag per intersection to install APS. ![]() He considers himself fortunate to have escaped serious injury each time. “Every time I go out to go downtown for a meeting, I have to think I could get hit today and not make it home,” said Gleichman, 65, who has been struck four times times by vehicles while navigating the city with his white cane since being diagnosed as legally blind in 2005. Nearly 3,000 Chicago intersections are now equipped with visual crossing signals, yet fewer than three dozen include audible cues.Ī federal judge ruled in March that such disparity in the nation’s third-largest city violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, a second landmark victory for blind residents who challenged the accessibility of a major city’s signalized crosswalks. CHICAGO (AP) - After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab while walking home near Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo - at the same intersection where a 4-year-old girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver years earlier.Īlthough Maya Hirsch’s death in 2006 ignited a citywide crusade for pedestrian safety improvements, almost all the electronic upgrades since then have been for people who can see.
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