HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jan 14, 2023

@JessTheUnstill @[email protected]

While true, this commonplace #Green thinking ignores the needs of the many handicapped or frail elderly people or stressed-out parents with several younger kids who already feel guilty about spending too little time with their family.
Using public transport in off-peak times often doubles or triples travelling times + involves quite some walking.
Furthermore, in rural areas, #PublicTransport is mostly too rare and often too expensive due to low population density.

Show threadStephaneHuart

@HistoPol @JessTheUnstill @[email protected]

Some persons with disabilities cannot use cars and are actually marginalized by the car centric city. Public transit times are longer because we design them that way: not bothering the cars too much, not creating fast lanes for them to avoid removing parking spots etc. So they stay stuck in traffic. Or we don't invest to much in them, so the frequency is low. Therefore, as they are slow, people take their cars, making them even slower.

Jan 15, 2023 at 2:42pmWeb
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Jan 16, 2023

@StephaneHuart @JessTheUnstill @[email protected]

Of course, people with disabilities are not a homogenous group. Some just might need assistance getting on and off a bus while others need a chauffeur and an assistanton top.

Also: bikes weighing more than 50kg/100 pounds do not belong on normal bike lanes, as well as any motorbikes and e-bikes that go faster than 35 km/h / 20 mph. They are a tremendous accidents hazard for standard bikers.