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
Cassandrich@vaurora The complaint I've seen isn't that bike-friendly infrastructure isn't or can't be made accessible, but that some bike activists completely ignore the existence and needs of disabled folks and the systems they're presently relying on. This at least feels like part of a pattern in lots of "radical" spaces with folks eagar to smash bad systems disabled folks depend on to live (like big pharma) without any plans for how to meet those needs afterwards.
AutisticMumTo3@AutisticMumTo3 @vaurora Indeed, this is one reason why bike friendly infrastructure needs to be coupled with excellent public transit.
@dalias @vaurora
Even with excellent public transport some will still need to travel by car. My twins have sensory issues with buses. They need accompaning everywhere for safety reasons. & I am in wheelchair for anywhere beyond the front door of my house. One of them has to get my wheelchair out of the car so has to accompany me everywhere & they can't be left home alone. The closest to public transport we can use is taxis so long as the vehicle has a boot that can take a wheelchair.
Even with excellent public transport some will still need to travel by car. My twins have sensory issues with buses. They need accompaning everywhere for safety reasons. & I am in wheelchair for anywhere beyond the front door of my house. One of them has to get my wheelchair out of the car so has to accompany me everywhere & they can't be left home alone. The closest to public transport we can use is taxis so long as the vehicle has a boot that can take a wheelchair.
@AutisticMumTo3 @vaurora Especially in a post-pandemic world I imagine ideal public transit being something your tiny-EV pods hook up to and get carried by without exchange of aerosols, not today's busses.
𝓥𝓲𝓬𝓽🍓𝓻𝓲𝓪@dalias @AutisticMumTo3 @vaurora This. If public transit had some private pods with good air filtration and routine cleaning, that would solve my issues and I’d use it. I’m all for minimizing personal vehicles, but I can’t ride a bike or walk and I’m immunocompromised, so typical public transit crowds are out. I hate traffic. I hate being traffic. But I need better solutions than just “use a bus”.
@KweVictoria @dalias @vaurora
Being a diabetic my immune system doesn't work as well as most folk's. I'm also over 50 and overweight. OK I'm not officially immunocompromised but I am still clinically extremely vulnerable as regards Covid and my immune system doesn't work at a good level any more. That pod system would help me too
Being a diabetic my immune system doesn't work as well as most folk's. I'm also over 50 and overweight. OK I'm not officially immunocompromised but I am still clinically extremely vulnerable as regards Covid and my immune system doesn't work at a good level any more. That pod system would help me too
LisPi@KweVictoria @dalias @AutisticMumTo3 @vaurora I've been profoundly disappointed by how basically no transport provider here has seriously considered fixing any of the problems with their current buses in a permanent BSL-3 pandemic.
It's unreasonable to expect people to defray full PPE kits on their own.
@lispi314 @KweVictoria @dalias @vaurora
Agreed. My guess is its the expense when the govt has been trying to get everything to go back to as pre-pandemic rather than requiring the change
Agreed. My guess is its the expense when the govt has been trying to get everything to go back to as pre-pandemic rather than requiring the change