BROKEN, OBSTRUCTED AND MISSING SIDEWALKS

FORCE WHEELCHAIR USERS INTO DANGEROUS STREETS – JUST TO MAINTAIN MOBILITY IN THEIR OWN HOME COMMUNITIES

When you see a person with a disability riding their assistive mobility device in the street, it isn’t because they want to be there.

It’s because the sidewalk is broken, obstructed or missing.

So they risk their lives to get to places.

They would rather risk death in dangerous traffic than die a thousand slow deaths stuck at home when they have thousands of talents to share with their community.

Cities that neglect sidewalks abuse and discriminate against wheelchair users.

This is on Esplanade near Broad in New Orleans, but lack of safe sidewalks plagues all cities.