Well I’m not sure about the bind pedestrians, but in SLC we have signals for the hearing impared… 
In big cities, and even small ones, you can see these yellow tiles everywhere. Of course, all crossings have beepers.
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We have talking crossing signals here. Also ones that chirp. If the percentage of users is high, they’ll give extra time, stop traffic in all directions and ban right turns on red while someone is crossing.
If I were blind, I doubt I would feel comfortable crossing the road.
Cran - I have a friend who’s blind (and a fantastic musician of just about every instrument she picks up!). She has lived on her own for over 30 years. She’s travelled all across the US and in Europe and Africa, all on her own (she had a helper canine in Germany that ran away).
She rides the buses all over town - has NO problem with finding the correct one. And never lets something like a street and traffic slow her down.
Her goal now is to someday go to a school for the blind in Africa and teach music. Currently she works at the local place I referred to - translating things into braille.
She’s an amazing person.
I didn’t mean to seem to say that ALL (or even most) blind folk shouldn’t or can’t cross the road, I just meant that I don’t think I could feel comfortable doing it, even with a seeing-eye dog.
There are quite a few visually impaired and hearing impaired schools/clubs/societies in Dublin. All the pedestrian crossings have beepers, flashing indicators AND vibratory indicators on the crossing unit for the doubly impaired!
They have the chirping ones in Brattleboro, VT. At least at the light I was stuck at for about a half an hour. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me what that loud chirping was, until about the 3rd time I’d sat through it. BTW, the traffic is normal for Brattleboro. If you want to get somewhere quickly while visiting there, do NOT take the downtown route. You’ll be stuck forever.