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This is being forwarded as tom seems to have intended this message for the 
list as well as myself.

Kelly


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Fowle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Kelly Pierce" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: "Bill Crandall" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] FW: talking buses/trains, letters to transit agencies


> Kelly,
> This list is probably not the best place for a debate on access 
> technology,
> but:
> how about:
> learning the number of an approaching bus at least a hundred feet before 
> it
> arrives at the stop;
> finding ticket machines,  gates, stairs, escolators  in train stationsfrom
> tens of feet away;
> Finding the stop you want, again from tens of feet away without
> having the entire world yelling at everyone from dozens of
> speakers.
>
> Here in San Francisco, we have what is claimed to be automatic stop
> announcement, it works sometimes and is often wrong and more often
> missing.  Besides the annoyance of stupid rules about social conduct being
> blabbered to all and sundry even when the automatic stop
> missannouncement doesn't work.
>
> And all of this poorly implemented announcement technology was as the 
> result
> of a law suit and several local blindness agencies letting
> the transit operators install technology which does not work well.
>
> There is room for any number of technologies in our field.
>
> Remote Infrared Audible signage is NOT a patented
> technology, with the exception of some proprietary circuits
> in the receiver which are not required for successfull operation.
>
> It's just that a few people, many of them experienced blind travelers
> have made the technology work and are
> trying to get over the stubbornness of federal burocracy and those
> who have not tried it.
>
> I have no financial interest in RIAS technology or Talking Signs, I just 
> think
> it works better than anything else out there for many applications.
>
> and that'll be then end of anything on this subject from me on this list.
>
> Tom Fowle
>
>
> 


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