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From: Ted.Filteau@f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Ted Filteau)
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Subject: Re: SUBWAY SAFETY
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Date: 26 Oct 90 03:28:29 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 DM>   In short, might it
 DM> be better if we, that is blind people, had more of a say in the 
 DM> actual design of these systems? ---
     
Hi Dan,  I picked your message to jump into this thread.
I use the boston system a good deal, and have found it getting harder
over the past twenty years or so.  The new stations use longer trains,
and put one on a center strip between trains.  They also do things like
puting benches in the middle of the strip at angles.  I don't think many
blind people were asked about these kinds of "modernizations."
If the original designs were beter, we wouldn't be having this message
thread on the echo.

... Ted

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