C. tells me that one of the things she first notices as a caregiver are sidewalks. She’s always worried that a sidewalk will just end with a step, and I’ll somehow miss it and end up in the middle of the street with a tipped over scooter at the mercy of San Antonio drivers. The city has been trying to remedy their sidewalk issues, but there are many areas where streets have no sidewalks or ramps at that. C. thinks about it because she had the misfortune of witnessing such an event a few years ago.<\/p>\n
She was driving down a busy street, and she said she noticed a wheelchair user on the sidewalk on her left side, except the woman’s chair was at an angle and she was holding on to a far wall. The sidewalk had no ramp, only an uneven step that had caught one of the front wheels, and she was falling. C. couldn’t get to her because she was in the middle lane, but she noticed that another car had pulled up and was going to help the woman. The moment has stayed with her since.<\/p>\n
I think about moments like these every time I take the bus home from work. The sidewalks are worn and cracked. I have to go around certain areas because my wheels don’t cushion the way the jagged concrete feels as I go over it. When the city decided to repave the street next door, they fixed the ramps, but it took two weeks before they re-added them, and I had to take to the street, my scooter a pretend car.<\/p>\n
And San Antonio wonders why it has so many disabled fatalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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