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# Pushing the right buttons
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/pushing-the-right-buttons-editor/
- Published: 2007-12-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T04:12:24.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Steve Keats Santa Monica*

Why do cyclists and pedestrians have to push a button to get the green while motorists just drive? I’ve raised this question with the city for years and never received a coherent answer, just the babbling of Lucy Dyke. Stephen Hawking for all his brilliance could never legally cross some of our streets! Quadriplegics can’t push buttons, stupid!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 3, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/120307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)