Gps and apps. There are already a myriad of bus apps. Have you heard of moovit? I use that. A lot of these bus apps are accessible. Quite a number of them I have a collection of them. I prefer move it and transit times. Your mobility has to be at least good enough to know your surroundings and such so I know my way around well enough, that I usually know the bus stops and where they are located but in case I don’t it will say take bus 91 at bellflower and spring ne. So I know where bellflower and spring is and if I know that part of town wwell enough I may know what direction is generally downtown or uptown. I will also know the bus lines. Say I know I am heading downtown so it must be that direction so I go there. In case I don’t know I ask but also some cities has it, it’s already there, there is some bus stop technologies for instance when I lived in San Francisco you can just press a button and a voice will tell you what bus is coming when tells you everything on the screen. It’s a screen reader and the voice doesn’t particularly sound very nice, but it does the job. I don’t know if it tells you the id or the corner, but you could probably easily look up the id of the bus stop and proceed that way or it can tell you what corner it’s on which is just a matter of programming it in to the audio.

So, I guess my only things the bus can improve on is a better gps system that is more accurate and that works better and announces the stops or more buses and service being better but that’s more financial in terms of public finance and strategical public admin stuff.

So, not much the buses can actually improve on I think sometimes for the tap targets the message of whether your card tap has gone through can be clearer I am not talking about tap and a ternstyle, I am just talking about a unit that you just tap your card on we have some of those in los angeles.

Bus stops should have Braille. At least the ones here in Portland do. A blind person searching for a bus stop can ask others around to help ensure they find the correct one. The red and white cane is also a visual cue for other sighted people that this person is severely lacking in the vision department and when bus drivers see that, they will announce their bus and their route and/or destination to the stop. Our buses now announce themselves and announce certain stops along the route but you can still ask the driver for specific stops.