This a.m.'s C-J brought us the Highlands/Crescent Hill Neighhborhoods weekly pullout, with its story New sidewalks coming to Brownsboro Road. And there was a photo of wheelchair user Kay Olges tooling down the very nice sidewalk, with its very nicely sloped curb ramps, along Payne in front of the Clifton Center. No complaints about these sidewalks from us.
However, it made me think about an issue that gets too little attention, and so I thought a blog entry was in order.
In Martha Elson's story, I read that Olges was
able to get to most places using the sidewalks and streets, but she said some sidewalks are uneven and more asphalt is needed at some railroad crossings.
That made me think of how wheelchair users are often forced into the streets due to the lack of curb ramps. It's a problem nationwide -- one that Elson's story did not touch on, except by inference. Maybe Olges didn't mention to Elson how dangerous that is.
But wheelchair users have been killed because of the lack of sidewalks. Stories about that here and here.
