This tweet at the link below
https://twitter.com/wash_cycle/status/1564605862378934275?s=21&t=3GwtxjK7yA54-v32VdBJkg
and rustedaspie's snarky reply on a forced concision platform
https://twitter.com/nyr194/status/1565316719400390657?s=21&t=3GwtxjK7yA54-v32VdBJkg inspired this blog post.
All I’m saying is that the pace of good social change both accounts, wash_cycle and nyr194, likely agree on is too damn slow and I am calling out the slow pace of transportation policy and budget spending change.
Jacob Cassell was tragically joined in the world to come by Sarah
Langenkamp. Both came from, or started, rich families who lost someone to a driver hitting a biker. The housing costs in the areas Cassell and Langenkamp lived in shows both families are rich. The deaths get more attention from local corporate and social media and local activism.
Will what
was done on route 187 Old Georgetown rd (where Cassell was killed) between June 2019 and July 2022 leading to a separate
bike lane with barriers happen to route 190 River Road (where Langenkamp was killed)? The cost of converting one lane in each direction of Route 187 was spread over 3 fiscal years for spending affordability. The repaving work was done in the last month of a fiscal year June 2019. The plastic sticks separating the bike lane from the car lanes were placed in July 2022. That was the first month of a new fiscal year.
If someone
were killed on route 193 University Blvd east of Amherst Ave (that was a summer 2021 test of a separated bike lane) will the same design happen as both class and racial equity in
pedestrian and bike safety infrastructure?
Hate Ralph Nader for his 2000 third party (Green with Winona LaDuke VP) and 2004 independent (not Green Party) presidential campaigns
splitting general election votes for Democratic Party nominees Al Gore and John Kerry or alleged 'business
climate' damage from trial lawyer support of state-based Public Interest Research Groups and Public Citizen at least the title of this book "Only the super rich can save us"
is sadly still true - domestic discretionary spending still effectively operates
on an inequitable basis by class and race.
Part of the money raised from this memorial will fund activist groups trying to change road design policy to make roads safer for bikers and pedestrians.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sarahs-bike-safety-memorial-fund
A stark contrast exists in the annual vigils on March 1 since 2013, after a start on March 31, 2012, for Disability Day of Mourning DDOM. Those vigils don't call for any specific policy changes. Some policy changes the DDOM organizers fail to link mourning vigils to include funding for respite care or initiatives to reduce wait lists for all types of social and human services that people with severe disabilities who have intense needs need to live in communities of their choosing.
Ending the 'institutional bias" of federally and state funded Medicaid is the ultimate goal with varying results state by state. People with severe disabilities who have intense needs (formerly called low functioning) would be helped to reach their goals of independent living at a faster pace if DDOM Disability Day of Mourning organizers took a lesson, by connecting public policy change to preventing filicides, from bike and pedestrian death vigil organizers.
Rustedaspie wrote more about the mistake Disability Day of Mourning vigil organizers make by erasing intersections of public policy change from mourning murder victims many times
http://selfadvocacyskepticism.blogspot.com/2017/02/unbreakable-link-between-adequately.html
http://selfadvocacyskepticism.blogspot.com/2017/02/crimes-filicide-against-individuals.html
http://selfadvocacyskepticism.blogspot.com/2017/02/economic-intersectionality-between.html
http://selfadvocacyskepticism.blogspot.com/2017/01/integrate-disability-day-of-mourning.html
on this blog.
