Michelle,

>Am I the only one here that spent part of their adult life without a car? Often, the drive up ATM is the only one in the vacinity. I would frequently walk up to them rather than walk miles out of my way to find one that wasn't a drive up. I imagine it would be the same for a walking blind person.
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>Michelle
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>>Oh, I know they do. I'm not at all against helping them. It's just funny to see, for example, a Braille keypad at a drive up automatic teller machine. A sighted person doesn't need a sightless person to read the information to them whereas a sightless person driving a car through a drive-up location is, well, ludicrous. It's just plain silly... <g>
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>>Personally I think that those who make these signs probably decided to make one model rather than two to save costs.
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>>As far as elevators go, I think it's a great idea. It's when you combine that with parking garages or drive throughs that I find funny.

Interesting point. Quite candidly I hadn't thought about that but now that you mention it it makes sense. I grew up in Southern California so I think in terms of having a car.