Crosswalk Musings
During my travels, I noticed that some of the curb ramps that I'm directed to assess are nearly perfect. And it has happened more than once that I noticed that not too far away in undesignated areas are curb ramps that have dilapidated detectable warning signs or no warning sign at all. Now, I thought that this was perhaps a sign of socioeconomic favoritism--since these curb ramps are in less affluent areas--but I just read that wealthier people are less likely to stop for pedestrians at crosswalks and more likely to take more candy from the candy bowl in the doctor's office (the latter is not situationally relevant, but the former is, and the latter serves to supplement the former's implication. But, in their defense, they would find a tumor faster with the piece of candy [and an MRI machine...and 7+ years of post grad]; and I'm going to assume that they know this and seek a safer way to skirt crosswalk protocol by reaping the transferable benefits of sucking on a l...