ARRESTED MOBILITY –
OVERCOMING THE THREAT TO BLACK MOVEMENT
Steve Wright, disability rights advocate and professor of Universal Design at the University of Miami School of Architecture, believe that there can be a middle-ground solution (to the issue of conflicts of sidewalk use and safety between those who uses wheelchairs for mobility and cyclists/scooter riders.)
“It’s an interim and if we…make a
strong case for infrastructure that’s humane…we can have a very wide sidewalk
and we can have a bike land and we can have some sort of marked lane for
scooters,” he says.
“The idea that this is weaponized…the
idea that a Brown or Black person has maybe had a 50/50 chance of getting a
ticket or being called over and read the riot act…that’s not a world that I
want to live in.”
I have spent my life as a writer,
planner, educator and advocate – working the create a better built environment
for marginalized people.
I was proud to be on one of Brown’s
first Arrested Mobility podcasts, sharing my expertise in hurdles to mobility
experienced by people with disabilities, especially wheelchair users.
I have been gratified to work as a
Universal Design subconsultant to Brown’s Equitable Cities -- an urban
planning, public policy, and research firm
working at the intersection of transportation, health, and equity.
Charles Brown
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