In this piece for Going Where You Wheel, the Center for Independent Living publication that described how Telegraph Avenue had been accessible and how it might serve as a model for other streets, Phil Draper—the CIL’s co-founder and executive director—characterizes Telegraph Avenue as a place of “forced harmony where you see people from all walks of life standing together.”

Draper also describes the campaign to get the city of Berkeley to construct curb cuts on the Ave, and how much they impacted his life.