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Citizen complaint of the day: Too many chirps in front of Center Plaza
By adamg on Fri, 05/20/2016 - 11:32pm
A concerned citizen complains about the pedestrian crossing where Cambridge Street turns into Tremont downtown:
The walk signal here is chirping birds. The problem is that there are nests of real birds above the Center3Plaza signage. A walker can't differentiate between the chirping signal and the real birds. Someone's gonna get killed here.
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Why are they not standardized?
It would seem like something that should. Yet I have heard different sounds in different places. Some include a voice direction. If anything needs a universal sound, you would think it would be this.
I have always supposed
That they're different to make it easier to distinguish different intersections.
screech monkey
For years I have argued that the sound of a screech monkey would be much more appropriate, and more difficult to confuse with local wildlife.
LOL I just spit my milk out
LOL I just spit my milk out
Mockingbirds Above All
No matter what they used, the local Mockingbirds would copy it. Screaming Howler Monkey Mockingbird? You bet.
As for potential confusion, I'd defer to a blind person who has to deal with it to decide if it is a problem and suggest changes.
How do you know the person submitting the complaint wasn't blind
How do you know the person submitting the complaint wasn't blind?
Then who would the commenter
Then who would the commenter know about the birds nest in the "Center3Plaza" sign?
Sound? Working in the area?
Sound? Working in the area? Friends? How do you know about things you haven't seen yourself?
I don't
Except that they would likely have mentioned that and stated that it is an actual problem, rather than theorize about potential problems.
In any case, you would need to consult a blind person to actually solve the problem because their relationship to sound in their environment is not the same as that of most sighted people.
Some walk lights have tactile
Some walk lights have tactile signals. I don't know if they all do.
Really? Where is an example,
Really? Where is an example, and how does it work?
The only ones I've seen are in Australia, where they've standardized on a pushbutton design where the button makes a pulse you can feel as it beeps.