TIL the "curb cuts" in sidewalks (allowing wheelchair access eg) started with activists smashing curbs in Berkeley with sledgehammers
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The article also places Kalamazoo’s curb cuts in the ’40s and Berkeley’s in the ’70s.
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Berkeley certainly deserves kudos for publicizing cuts, even if they weren’t the first.
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I feel comfortable standing by "started" with respect to curb cuts as an urban movement.
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