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Hello and welcome to my presentation.
Um
It,
this presentation
is to persuade you
to improve
Visalia's infrastructure.
Now,
you might be asking what is wrong with vasilia
infrastructure.
Well, what is wrong
is that there are cracks in sidewalks, there are cracks in the roads and
there are signs that are missing. There are old markings on the road like paint
and they're all decaying. They are all frantically
just not there anymore or if they are there,
you can't see them due to debris
and due to other factors
by the, the paint just fading on the floor.
You know?
Hm.
Now you might ask why is all this important?
It is important because everyone, you know, uses the sidewalk,
uses the road and from time to time we use crosswalks
and of course signs.
So it is really,
really important that our infrastructure around
the city is actually decent enough.
So you can get from point A to point B safely, not only safely
but
just
fast in the, in the same sense, you know,
um,
my friend Eli got hit by a car around two months ago.
Um It was extremely hard for him to graduate and to walk,
it was really difficult
for him because when he got,
he was coming home from playing basketball and he was walking
down the road
and
he was crossing on a crosswalk
and someone driving,
they
just didn't stop and they hit him
in the middle of the road.
And his injuries were, he had a cut spleen,
two back fractures, six broken ribs.
A dis
a dislocated knee
and a, a
few more
A I numero
thor
thorax, which is a semi
collapsed lung.
All of those,
it took him so long to
actually graduate and to actually put in
what he needed to.
I remember I didn't see him for two months until it was time for us to graduate.
And then even after that, he went straight
back into his house, he
can't really do anything anymore. And I, he
just
is almost bedridden
and I wouldn't want this to happen to anyone else, me
or just anyone in
via,
you know,
because what happened to him can easily happen to you,
your neighbor and everyone else.
So I say it is extremely important that we fix small issues like a crack in the road
or
a crack on the sidewalk or old paint. That's just kind of there.
You can't really see anymore.
There's sometimes where a tree is blocking a sign. It's best if we clear the tree
at least a part of it. So we can then see the sign.
So
as a driver, we don't do something like this.
You know,
now
how, now, since we discussed how
important it is
because
without it, it's
really hard just to get from point A to point B you know,
so what can we do to take a step in the right direction?
A step we can take
is
talking about it because when you talk to people, there's no one that is
actually advocating for better infrastructure.
No more cracks, no more. A
lot of just stuff in general,
you know.
So I feel like
to further
put us in a good direction and a good step. It's just talking about it.
I know when I'm walking down the street,
I'm scared because there's cars right next to me. I'm scared because
I don't wanna get ran over
by a huge car.
I know that when I'm driving,
it scares me when people are walking on roads that
are on sidewalks that are right next to the road
because I don't want
to run someone over, you know, no one wants to be ran over.
I don't want to hurt anyone in that way.
So because of that, it makes it
really, really important
to
fix that and make sure
that we're not stuck in those uncomfortable
situations where something actually might happen.
As you can see in the bottom right corner,
there is a space with grass that's blocking
the road and then the sidewalk.
Those are really, really important because without those.
You are quite literally walking on the road.
You are right there
and it takes one trip, one fall, one drop of a pencil or something from your backpack
to then just be hit with a car
just,
you know,
it's
not good and stuff like that needs to be fixed. Especially my c
you will see a lot of times where you're walking on the side of the road.
Now, if you look on the top, right,
there are clear indicators
that it's a crosswalk. Um,
anytime I would walk to LD Monte,
there's a crosswalk taking you from
a neighborhood right next to LD to L D's parking lot.
There are
no signs
and the only time that is there,
it is blocked by a tree because of that.
I remember waiting there sometimes
like over 10 minutes
just for all the cars to clear out.
Just so I don't get ran over in the mornings.
It's made me late to class so many times just
because people don't understand that there's actually a crosswalk there.
It's makes it 20 times more dangerous.
And when you add Children and teenagers involved,
it makes it even more dangerous because
teenagers and kids aren't the smartest people
and they will just kind of walk without
looking left and right. So it's important that we have those things
involved and
we can properly see them and they're properly displayed.
And now I feel like on the bottom left,
you can see that the road over there is perfect.
There's a great yellow line in the middle,
which is a great indicator to tell you what side of the road you're on or that like,
it's the middle of the road,
it's clear and you can see that
if you go around in my cell, you, there's a lot of times where you just can't see that.
There's a lot of times where
you, you can semi
but it's not really there. It's not prominent, there's no bike lanes most of the time
and you're just more prone to getting hurt or ran over,
you know,
so
this will be actively dangerous if we don't do something about it.
If we don't talk about it, if we don't do the small things we can to do to help
the community solve this issue because it's an issue
that no one talks about often.
It's an issue
that
isn't really
the biggest issue,
but it'll always be present as time goes on and it'll
only be more present if we don't do something about it.
Now, what can you do to help? Now, currently, there are no
groups or activists that are pushing for vice,
for vice
to have a better infrastructure.
But
what we can do
is just talk to people about it, make it seem like make it an issue
because it is an issue, you know, spread the word,
spread how dangerous it is because this doesn't affect just
one or two people or people who can't drive,
this affects
the entirety of
via the people who visit
via,
you know,
this
is a great bigger issue
than
what it seems. No one ever talks about it.
So you don't really see it as such a big of an issue as it is.
So when it comes in terms of how, how we can help,
we can help by just talking about it,
There are currently no groups to kind of
make it public or
like make it big.
But there are projects
va currently has.
But the thing is with those projects,
they might not happen in a couple of years in a couple of months.
It's important that we get
these small things down like a crack in the road.
I know I said it has a few projects, one for a bridge and one
to
reconstruct Walnut the street.
Um
from what I know those are the only projects via
has around,
but none of them are really
the people based, you know, they're not coming from us,
they're coming from what the city wants.
But what's important is that we
express what we want
and the best infrastructure that we can have.
You know, because I don't want you to get ran over.
I don't want your friends,
your family to get ran over and I don't want to get ran over myself.
It's important that we fix this. We can all be more safe
and it's a point that we do.
So we're all safe.
So we're so we're not have to worry about a pothole
in the road or you don't have to worry about.
This is the right side of the road. I know downtown it can get really, really chaotic.
Anyway, that's my presentation. And thank you so much for listening to me.
Thank you.