Acceptance (Updated)

I have accepted the probability that meaningful safe-access-for-all on the streets and roads where I live in Metro Atlanta will not happen during my lifetime. I am grateful to see from my recent 10,000-mile journey around the USA that it is happening elsewhere.

UPDATE 12/12/23 Ugh. It’s so hard to let go when I can see a simple way forward. I will probably delete this comment, but I had to add it when I saw my city celebrating yet another “improvement” that does not include safe-access-for-all:

Thank you for improving things for drivers. I do drive sometimes (I use a bike as my primary local transportation) and appreciate it. I also love all the new art around the city. Will you please bring our bike lanes up to safe-access-for-all standards? (Almost none in our family-friendly city meet those national standards, including the ones in all directions at this intersection.) This would be something that could happen immediately on the unprotected lanes that already exist, not requiring 60 million dollars of new concrete*. Here is a pop-up temporary way to do it in select places. There are many other quick, affordable options. 

*that’s in reference to the bond referendum, which recently failed.