Cane Skills
The cane technique where you move your cane from side to side tapping your cane just beyond the edge of your body.
What is two point touch?
When you should cross at a fairly quiet residential stop sign controlled intersection.
What is when it is all quiet or there are no cars?
If you are facing south, this direction is behind you.
What is north?
You do this when you want to get off the bus at the next stop?
What is pull the cord?
The zero streets in Colorado Springs
What are Cascade and Pikes Peak?
A technique that you can use to get from one place to another safely when not using your cane. (Hint: not protective technique)
What is sighted guide or human guide?
The term used to describe the traffic that you use to initiate your crossing at a light controlled intersection.
What is the parallel surge?
The sun sets in this direction each evening.
What is west?
The best place to sit on the bus if you have asked the driver to let you off at a particular stop.
What is closest to the front and across from the driver.
The sides of the streets that have even numbered addresses
What are the north and west sides?
This word means following a grass line, wall, or building line with your cane.
What is trailing or shorelining?
A street in which traffic flows in only one direction
What is a one-way street?
This device can tell you what direction you are facing.
What is a compass?
You need this to ride an additional bus during a route for no extra charge.
What is a transfer?
Addresses on each block in downtown Colorado Springs generally go up to this number.
What is 30-35?
You do this if you have not located your sidewalk after doing your three point check during the recovery from veering process.
What is turn toward your parallel street?
When the sidewalk slopes down to the level of the street at the end of a block it is called this.
What is a curb ramp?
If it is before noon and you feel the sun on your right cheek, this is the direction you are facing.
What is north?
There are three populations who can ride the bus at a reduced fare. Name two.
What is student, senior citizen, or someone with a disability?
The streets the 200 block of Nevada is between.
What are Platte and Bijou?
The distance that the cane is moved from left to right as you travel.
What is the arc width?
This is when to cross alongside a constantly busy street that never has a lull at a two way stop sign controlled intersection.
What is with a near-side parallel or blocker car?
If Platte is to the north of you and Institute is to the east of you, you are standing on this directional corner.
What is the southwest corner?
This is the fare for people with disabilities on Mountain Metro Transit.
What is $0.85?
Walk this many blocks in these directions to get from Boulder and Cascade to Bijou and Wahsatch?
What is 2 blocks south and 4 blocks east?