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Listen both ways: Blind walkers winning safer road crossings

A recent ruling was a second landmark victory for blind residents who challenged the accessibility of a major city s signalized crosswalks. ....

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Listen both ways: Blind walkers winning safer road crossings through lawsuits

After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab while walking home near Chicago s Lincoln Park Zoo at the same intersection where a 4-year-old girl was killed by a hit-and-run driver years earlier. ....

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Listen both ways: Blind walkers win push for safer street crossings

A recent federal court ruling criticizing street crossing signals in Chicago could push other cities to install accessible pedestrian signals. ....

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Chicago must make road crossings safer for the blind

Nearly 3,000 Chicago intersections are equipped with visual crossing signals, yet fewer than three dozen include audible cues. In a landmark victory for blind residents challenging the accessibility of a major city s signalized crosswalks, a federal judge in March ruled in a class-action lawsuit that such disparity violates the Americans with Disabilities Act. ....

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At least 8 fake electors have immunity in Ga. election probe ....

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