Our job is to educate about, and advocate for, accessibility for ALL! We
need to keep at it as frustrating as it is at times. DOT is starting to get
it but they are limited by the pitiful resources they have available!
Raise the fuel tax!!
Carson, you are a hero!
Call your Legislator!!
On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 11:09 AM Carson Wood <cwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Good Morning.
I understand that I’m preaching to the choir in saying, it’s been a
really long Winter. I was shocked to hear that there still places that
have snow on the ground in Maine. I suppose I shouldn’t be because, now
that I think about it, where I grew up it was colder longer due to being
more inland.
I wanted to talk about when there was a time I confidently traveled as
a blind pedestrian regardless of the weather.
It is to be noted, that version of me could use landmarks to navigate
visually. The current version of me cannot.
To further throw a monkey rench into the works is the increasingly
aggressiveness of drivers pared with driver distraction.
The iceing on the cake is hearing my Brother, who happens to be the
President of NFB of Maine tell me that he would not travel in Westbrook
because he feels it is too dangerous.
My inner argument is, where is the line to be found between
independence and outright danger in simply trying to travel?
After such a long Winter I wrestle with trying to determine where that
line is?
In my mind wandering into the danger zone could easily happen as the
result of over confidence which I equate with stupidity that can result in
death.
I find myself boxed in and not liking it.
What do all of you think?
Carson.
