Hope Amid the Homeless on Modesto’s Mean Streets

As I was waiting for a bus last Sunday at the downtown transit center, an elderly man, using a walker loaded with what looked like his belongings, was denied access to a bus. The man stood there on this grey windy afternoon, shouting furiously at the bus driver at the injustice of denying him service, correctly noting – in my estimation – that some bus drivers allow carts larger than his walker. Even as a freight train thundered by, this fellow’s righteous roaring could be heard from one end of the passenger platform to the other.

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