And wheelchair-compliant transport because disabled activists chained themselves to Denver busses, shutting down transit. Wow bravery.
TIL the "curb cuts" in sidewalks (allowing wheelchair access eg) started with activists smashing curbs in Berkeley with sledgehammers
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I’m interested- where’d you read about that?
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I was also atted this which seems to bear it out:https://twitter.com/mattsiegel/status/755584136182534144 …
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And apparently this is what it looks like — still happening in 2016 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia (HT
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pic.twitter.com/gyB1zxMHma
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99% Invisible covered curb cuts! Inspiring to hear about what it took to make sidewalks work better for everyone — in a way we no longer recognize as anything but defaulthttps://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/ …
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Most sources I’ve found give the nod to Kalamazoo. And without the sledgehammer part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut
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this is probably oral/folk history not yet written down. I see the reference to @CILBerkeley in the article.
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where is this?
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interesting! certainly counts as hacking :Dhttp://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/smashing-barriers-access-disability-activism-and-curb-cuts …
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They have a plaque to commemorate on one of the sidewalks downtown! I <3 Berkeley despite its NIMBY tendencies.
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It's so nice to know how effective sober, reasoned argument can be.
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I've always thought it would be good to have a stealth movement that go around deploying ramps at night!
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I saw some pictures of that a few months ago, so awe-inspiring
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