The City of Cape Town plans to install devices designed to assist blind or deaf pedestrians at all new traffic signals, and at as many current intersections as possible.

The Audio Tactile Pedestrian Detector has a vibrating button which emits both audio and tactile signals indicating that the green man signal is lit and that it is therefore safe to cross the road.

The first device to be installed in the city was demonstrated at a function officiated at by Councillor Elizabeth Thompson, Mayoral Committee Member for Transport, Roads and Stormwater, outside the Cape Town Society for the Blind offices in Salt River.