[Mt-blind] Interesting update

[Carl Schweitzer]

Everyone:  Kayla is back on campus at Carroll College and yesterday I stopped to visit with her.  In our conversation she asked if I could look into see if a auditory signal could be put in on the corner of Benton and Euclid in Helena.  She has to cross that street to get to the grocery store and it is very difficult for her to tell when traffic is stopped.  So I called a friend at the Department of Transporation and ask how or who we should talk to about getting an auditor traffic signal on that corner.  He talked with the district manager for the Helena district and evidently Helena is about to get all new traffic signals all over the town.  But the traffic engineers had not thought about auditory signals, but they are interested in learning and considering them.  Kayla said that when she was in Poland that all of the intersection had auditory signals that make a low clicking sound that was not obnoxious like the one on Eleventh and Roberts in Helena (by the mall).  So with the new traffic systems coming to Helena and the district engineer interested in the possible, the association has an opportunity to get something positive accomplished regarding traffic.  Since the summer school is in Helena now, it would be great to have all of the traffic signals working for the blind as well as everyone else.  The district engineer suggested that I write him a letter telling him about what I would like to happen.  If any one else would like to write him or call him, his name is Michael Johnson and his address and phone number are:  200 Smelter Avenue NE; PO Box 1359; Great Falls, MT 59403-1359; Phone: 406.454.5880 | 888.730.0898 
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Everyone:  Kayla is back on campus at Carroll College and yesterday I stopped to visit with her.  In our conversation she asked if I could look into see if a auditory signal could be put in on the corner of Benton and Euclid in Helena.  She has to cross that street to get to the grocery store and it is very difficult for her to tell when traffic is stopped.  So I called a friend at the Department of Transporation and ask how or who we should talk to about getting an auditor traffic signal on that corner.  He talked with the district manager for the Helena district and evidently Helena is about to get all new traffic signals all over the town.  But the traffic engineers had not thought about auditory signals, but they are interested in learning and considering them.  Kayla said that when she was in Poland that all of the intersection had auditory signals that make a low clicking sound that was not obnoxious like the one on Eleventh and Roberts in Helena (by the mall).  So with the new traffic systems coming to Helena and the district engineer interested in the possible, the association has an opportunity to get something positive accomplished regarding traffic.  Since the summer school is in Helena now, it would be great to have all of the traffic signals working for the blind as well as everyone else.  The district engineer suggested that I write him a letter telling him about what I would like to happen.  If any one else would like to write him or call him, his name is
Michael Johnson and his address and phone number are: 
200 Smelter Avenue NE; PO Box 1359; Great Falls, MT 59403-1359; Phone: 406.454.5880 | 888.730.0898