Just the very idea that a mom … she’s put in this position to cross a road — the bus lets her out across from her apartment complex after a long trip. She’s supposed to walk 1/3 of a mile down to a traffic light to cross a five-lane highway and 1/3 of a mile back… People don’t do that!
And to absolve the people who designed that situation of any responsibility and then to try her for vehicular homicide — it’s the kind of thing that’s completely unconscionable. That is the mentality that we have as a country these days because for so long we have favored ourselves when we were in our vehicles and penalized ourselves when we’re walking. It makes no sense whatsoever.
David Goldberg, who flew a long distance to accept a Golden Shoe award from pedestrian advocacy group PEDS.
Listen to the whole speech — he traveled a long way to make this speech, and it’s worth your six minutes.
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