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Many people with disabilities can easier ride a handcycle or just an electronically powered wheelchair than they can use a car. Of course they can't in cities
by revelation 9y ago
Many people with disabilities can easier ride a handcycle or just an electronically powered wheelchair than they can use a car.
Of course they can't in cities today because nobody wants to play sitting duck in 50mph traffic.
- moron4hire 9y agoI'm the rain? Across town? Cars aren't just means of transportation. They also provide shelter and comfort.
- pacaro 9y agoThis is also a very narrow view of "disability", there are many reasons why someone may not be willing or able to ride a bike, not all of them are met by suggesting that those people should use a hand cycle or electric wheelchair.
- revelation 9y agoAnd you are suggesting their needs are better met by buying a transporter that they then have to entirely rejig for a cost in excess of $30k and telling everyone who wants to get around by handcycle or electric wheelchair to fuck off? It's hard to see this as any more than a thinly veiled "but I need my car!" by people who have likely never in their life met a disabled person.
- pacaro 9y agoI am suggesting that there is no "one size fits all" solution. This isn't a problem that is amenable to simplistic solutions. Be careful with your presumptions, we're all strangers here.
- geezerjay 9y ago> Many people with disabilities can easier ride a handcycle or just an electronically powered wheelchair than they can use a car. If that was true then they would be riding handycles instead of a car. Moreover, I fail to see the relevance of your point. Local and central governments are invested in eliminating the best options available to a significant portion of society, and are failing to even consider introducing any alternative services. Claiming that people with disabilities could use another means of transportation fails to address the issue.