Federal judge says Chicago liable to upgrade thousands of street crossings to make them ‘accessible’ for blind people – Cook County Record

The city’s 2012 public pedestrian plan, which cited a primary goal of eliminating pedestrian fatalities by 2022, included intent to install accessible pedestrian signals (APS) at every new traffic signal starting in 2016. By 2019, only one of 39 crossings with new signals was APS equipped and, according to the 2019 complaint, only 11 out of 2,2672 signalized intersections in the city included such APS devices.