Blind Pedestrians Sue About Exclusion from Chicago’s Pedestrian Safety Program – Disability Rights Advocates

Blind Pedestrians Sue About Exclusion from Chicago’s Pedestrian Safety Program

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Pedestrian intersection in Chicago without APS

Chicago, IL—September 23, 2019—Today, Disability Rights Advocates (“DRA”) and the Proskauer law firm (“Proskauer”) filed a class action lawsuit against the City of Chicago and the Chicago Department of Transportation (“CDOT”) in order to challenge the systemic lack of accessible pedestrian signals at intersections all over the city. The lawsuit, which has been filed on behalf of the American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago (“ACBMC”) and three individual plaintiffs with vision-related disabilities, alleges that Chicago disregards blind pedestrians’ safety needs in its pedestrian planning, thereby violating federal and state civil rights laws. Read the complaint below.

To date, Chicago has equipped only 11 intersections with pedestrian traffic signals that make street crossing information accessible to blind people even though fully 2,672 of its intersections are signalized. This number—less than half of one percent—may be the worst of any major metropolitan area in the United States.

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