Veering is something that happens even with the best travelers. The important issues are to be able to figure out how to recover, and also, not veering so much that you end up in parallel traffic. This may seem overly obvious, but if you have a tendency to veer, it is better to veer away from the parallel traffic instead of toward it. Some intersections do not give you anything to work with, but there are a couple of common trends that can be helpful. In the City I teach in the most, many intersections feature brick crosswalks and non-brick paved streets. In such instances, if you use constant contact, an especially with the tip you say you are using, you should be able to determine when you are veering out of the brick surface. If you need more reinforcement, you can shoreline between the brick crosswalk and the paved street. It is usually best to do this on the border of the crosswalk that is furthest away from the parallel traffic flow. ?Even if there is not an obvious surface change between sidewalk and street such as I have just described, sometimes there is an expansion crack that runs in the direction of the parallel traffic, but in the crosswalk area. If you find such an expansion crack, again constant contact is suggested; you can arc back and forth across the crack using constant contact.

Michael Byington, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist

President of Kansas Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Inc.

Membership Coordinator for Friends In Art of the American Council of the Blind

712 S. Kansas Avenue

Suite 414D-F

Topeka, Kansas 66603

(785) 221-7111

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