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Common Ground
one road · three lanes
The bicycle got its lane in 1895. The electric car, in 2022. The wheelchair is older than both. Its lane was never built. You drive the grass.
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drive the rims
the choice
Rebuild the road, or beat it alone?
You have found a way around every barrier on this road. What you know is worth something.
rebuild costs you
Your lane closes for the works. They will pass you while you wait.
keeping it costs you
Nothing, if your line is perfect. The road stays broken behind you.
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You finished last.
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the same road
Nothing about you changed.
The ground did.
built for them
common ground
march 1946 · kalamazoo, michigan
This has worked before.
Jack Fisher, a disabled Navy veteran, talked Kalamazoo into cutting its kerbs in 1945. A year later he wrote to the Mayor about who the ramps had turned out to be for.
“…the ramps were instrumental in allowing disabled veterans, disabled non‑veterans, aged and infirm persons and mothers with baby carriages more freedom of movement…” “…not only benefits the disabled person alone, but benefits the community at large as well.”
Jack Fisher, letter to the Mayor of Kalamazoo, March 1946. Two sentences from the same letter. The curb cut effect, 71 years before it had a name.
Method: every figure above was verified against its primary source; claims that could not be verified were cut, not softened.
Built on published research by Transport for All, Oregon DOT, WHO, UPIAS and the Independent Living Institute.
Formal consultation with disabled transport advocates is invited ahead of wide release.
Jack Fisher · letter to the Mayor of Kalamazoo · March 1946
The bicycle got its lane in 1895. The electric car, in 2022. The wheelchair is older than both. It waited until today.
Freedom of movement, for every lane. Mandated, not gifted.