Audible device makes downtown more accessible to the blind Milo Waddoups, who is blind, is excited about the new crosswalk. He explained as the pedestrian sign lights up, a voice lets the walker know that it has. When the countdown starts, it counts it down out loud.

"I love that sound. That is just the sweetest sound in the whole world," Waddoups said. "It's just taken a lot of pressure off."

To make a crosswalk audible, it costs $1,000 per pole. Funding for these crosswalks comes from the state and the city.

Larry Bulloch, public works director for St. George, said they feel it's part of their stewardship to provide the audible crosswalks.

"We're trying to meet the needs of the traveling public and that's one sector of the traveling public," he said.

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