Valerie AuroraIt’s weird to me when people frame calls for bike-friendly infrastructure as in conflict with disability accommodation. Make a city good for biking requires lots of smooth curbless bike paths that are perfect for mobility scooters, much better than trying to use your scooter on the road or the sidewalk. I see people zipping around on their mobility scooters everywhere in Amsterdam. They also have these tiny little cars for people with disabilities that are allowed to use all bike infrastructure
Kim@vaurora I'm still trying to find out how well Dutch infrastructure works for visually impaired pedestrians. In the UK, many blind people object to cycleways because they're afraid of cyclists not giving way to them as they cross. I can't work out how much of this is a problem when cyclists behave more consistently and hatred of cycle users isn't part of the culture.
dr2chase@kim @vaurora In the US (I have a theorem, it is mine) I think a fair amount of bad bike behavior towards pedestrians is driven by bikes-are-vehicles and jaywalking rules. Instead of the simple "you should be able to politely not-hit pedestrians all day long" we have "don't jaywalk" & "ring a bell" & other traffic rules normalize the idea of not thinking about yielding to pedestrians. I've decided to follow the simple rule, it has corollaries (prefer to pass behind people), but it works well.
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