Blind and Visually Impaired
"Service animals are allowed on the T during all hours of operation, but must be kept under control at all times. No certification is required, nor is the animal expected to wear a special harness, scarf or other identifying markings."
Most, but not all, train stations have yellow detectable warning strips with truncated domes running in a two-foot (60 cm) band along the edge of the platforms.
Buses and trains are supposed to have either recorded announcements or driver announcements of station stops, but these announcements are often muffled, inaudible, or omitted, particularly on the Green Line and buses. The Red Line's "01800" series of trains have become infamous for their tendency to announce incorrect stops.
Read more about this topic: MBTA Accessibility
Famous quotes containing the words blind and/or impaired:
“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind’s eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”
—Richard Dawkins (b. 1941)
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—T. Berry Brazelton (20th century)