What a horrible city.
It's trains don't work, parking is a problem, and now this:
"Trapped by walls of white' For the disabled and for seniors, an unshoveled walk is more than an annoyance — it is a barrier to life" by Billy Baker, Globe Staff / January 29, 2011
As snowstorm has chased snowstorm through the winter, the smallest details have made the difference between mobility and entrapment for many seniors and the disabled....
The able-bodied, and they often make the incorrect assumption that what is passable for them is passable for all....
I'm also tired of the Boston Globe guilt trips.
Another perennial problem lies in the curb ramps, which are often covered by snowplows....
Other times, a pond of slush covers a ramp....
With the challenge to mobility comes the danger that many elderly and disabled will simply choose to stay home, advocates say....
That's dangerous now?
Wendy Landman, executive director of the advocacy group WalkBoston, thinks thorough shoveling can become the norm if we look to the lessons learned from a past sidewalk issue: dog owners failing to clean up after their pets.
You are more than welcome to do mine, lady.
What changed, Landman said, was peer pressure, neighbors policing neighbors.
How far is the fascism going to go, fellow AmeriKans?
“It just became something you didn’t do,’’ she said. “And we can do the same with shoveling, create a new social norm.’’
Too bad that couldn't be applied to bank looting or mass-murdering wars based on lies, huh?
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I do the best I can at clearing the slop, readers.
Somehow we don't seem to have this problem out here in Sticksville.
