Results tagged “pedestrian”

After a quiet vacation in the country, returning to Toronto can be quite a shock. Despite all of the smog and noise, the city possesses a beauty of its own. For example, the heartwarming feeling brought on by pedestrians teaming up to tongue-lash a red-light-runner. It's great to be back home!

The last time we looked at accessible pedestrian signals (APS), those chirping and cuckooing crossing indicators for the visually-impaired, it was with some surprise at the city's claim that it simply couldn't afford to install APS at more than a handful of intersections each year. Instead of allocating enough money to improve availability of a fairly basic service to visually-impaired residents, the city instead looked for corporate sponsors to pick up some of the considerable slack, resulting in pedestrian signals "funded by IBM" and other organizations dotting the city, a virtual declaration that the city was abdicating its responsibilities.