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From: Jeff.Salzberg@f729.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Salzberg)
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Subject: Re: SUBWAY SAFETY
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Date: 2 Oct 90 01:10:50 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DK> many of the blind populous have spacial 
 DK> orientation difficulties and why remove safety precautions like 
 DK> tactal strips from these people.  sighted people have many aids 
 DK> to help them be more safe in our world, why exclude people who

 Many subway systems have a strip of differently-colored tile along the
 edge of the platform as sort of a warning track.  A tactile strip would
 be merely an extension of this approach - a broadening of it, to
 provide for blind travellers a service the system is already providing
 for sighted ones.

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