The New York City Department of Transportation says it hopes to make roughly 500 more intersections accessible to blind and low-vision pedestrians next year.
The Department of Transportation says it hopes to make roughly 500 more intersections accessible to blind and low-vision pedestrians next year.
This comes three months after a federal judge criticized New York City's slow pace of installing the accessible pedestrian signals , which make "" to let pedestrians know they can start walking — and said the city must install 9,000 over the next 10 years. Currently, there are more than 13,000 intersections with traffic lights, but, as of March 1st, only 1,015 have APS — about 8% of all intersections.
Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez told the City Council's transportation committee Wednesday that 147 intersections would get APS this fiscal year, which ends on June 30th, while 400 more would get the technology in the next fiscal year. For the 2023 calendar year, 500 intersections would be made accessible, DOT officials said.
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