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Chicago lags behind major cities that have audio signals at street crossings for blind pedestrians. Boston has more than 300. Chicago has 18.
Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune
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Denise Avant uses a crosswalk with a voice command at the corner of Roscoe Street and Lake Shore Drive in Chicago s Lakeview neighborhood on April 15, 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a lawsuit against the city that alleges it doesn t provide enough of these accessible pedestrian signals.
In 2019, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago would make the city’s intersections more accessible for blind and low-vision pedestrians, pledging on the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act to add more crossing signals with audible tones. ....

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