By Chris Ramirez
Tribune-Review

Getting across West Street is risky for Sue Etters and other patrons of a Homestead center for the blind.

A flashing yellow beacon near the Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh is supposed to warn drivers to slow down as they approach the building at West Street and East 18th Avenue.

But Etters and the center’s officials say drivers routinely ignore it, sometimes coming to within inches of running down visually impaired children and adults and their sighted guides.

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