A wheelchair tumble on an L.A. sidewalk has focused attention on badly needed repairs and disabled people's challenges.
How could seeing someone start to tip out of a wheelchair toward the sidewalk not be upsetting and unsettling?
Radcliff, a TV writer who has cerebral palsy, said he would have been happy to have a different kind of photo of himself in the paper — but embraced this one because of the attention it brought and the opportunity it gave him to advocate for the disabled community and for sidewalk safety.The problem with the sidewalks, as Radcliff’s case helped me understand, is that the city let things go and get worse and worse for decades.
It’s understandable, then, that in the new effort’s early days, L.A. still has many, many miles of root-buckled, crumbling, cracked and badly sloping sidewalk. The work also proceeds quite slowly partly because the problems are messy and expensive to fix.
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