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Infrastructure proposes to install an acoustic system activated with the mobile in 59 crossings to improve the safety of people with visual impairment (31/05/2019)

The City of Murcia continues to design actions to achieve an accessible and integrated city, for which it is also necessary to improve the mobility of the blind.

With this objective, the Department of Infrastructure, Public Works and Services, directed by Rebeca Pérez, intends to install the device called "pasblue" in 59 trafficked pedestrian crossings of 13 urban roads.

For this, the Government Board has authorized the request for a grant of 30,000 euros to the Ministry of Development and Infrastructure, a global budget of the action budgeted at 81,840 euros.

It is an acoustic warning system with remote control or via a bluetooth connection that allows the pedestrian steps regulated by traffic lights to ensure the safety of blind and visually impaired people, while also avoiding unnecessary sounds.

The user is automatically detected, with a range of 10 meters, without having to perform any operation, and the system emits an orientation sound so that the blind person can locate the traffic light.

During the help process, the traffic lights emit several types of sound:

- Orientation Acoustic Signal: it is issued whenever the user activates the control, or detects a Bluetooth device, and allows the latter to locate the exact position of the post that emits the sound.

- Recorded activation acoustic signal: it is issued once the system has been activated and it waits for the green cycle to take place.

- Pass Acoustic Signal: intermittent characteristic tone, which informs the user of the possibility of crossing.

- End of Step Acoustic Signal: characteristic tone well differentiated from the pitch tone, which warns the user of said situation.

- Once the pass cycle is complete, the system returns to its original resting position, not emitting any type of acoustic signal until it is activated again.

The ways in which the City Council intends to install this system are part of the itinerary No. 1 of the Municipal Universal Accessibility Plan, which includes several urban itineraries, agreed with the different representative associations of people with disabilities, in order to adapt them to guarantee their accessibility.

Pedestrian paths

Different actions of civil works have already been executed in this route, especially in pedestrian fords on sidewalks to adapt them to the regulations on accessibility or displacement of urban elements such as vertical signs, informative elements or paper mills, for example.

The installation of this device at traffic lights will be carried out on 13 tracks containing 59 pedestrian crossings, specifically:

- Abenarabi Street -Avda.

Marquis of the Vélez

- Circular Square - Ronda Levante - Alfonso X El Sabio

- Plaza de la Fuensanta - Gran Vía - Avda. Constitución

- Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo - Maestro Alonso

- Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo - Plaza Santa Isabel

- Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo - Mother of God

- Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo - Teniente Flomesta Avenue - Martínez Tornel Square

- Alameda de Colón - Hernández del Águila

- Floridablanca Street - González Conde Square

- Paseo Marqués de Corvera - Alameda de Capuchinos

- Paseo de Corvera - Industria Street

- Calle Floridablanca - Calle Formalidad

- Gran Vía Escultor Salzillo - Mother of God

At present, there are 219 pedestrian crossings of the city equipped with this device and, after the increase of these 54 crosses included in the project whose subsidy is requested from the Autonomous Community, will be 273.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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