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In many smaller towns, and even larger cities where taxies are not common, this isn't an option. When I lived in Mesa years ago I'd call cab services multiple
by Impossible 9y ago
In many smaller towns, and even larger cities where taxies are not common, this isn't an option. When I lived in Mesa years ago I'd call cab services multiple times and they'd just never show up. Many smaller towns just don't have taxi services.
- serf 9y agoIt's espescially cruel when you consider that rural/small towns are usually the ones least set up for pedestrian traffic. Not only are there no taxis/uber/buses , there are no sidewalks, street lights, few traffic signals, etc.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoEven worse, if you do walk after the bars close, you are more likely to get stopped by the police simply because you are out walking. Living a mile outside the city, you can get stopped because you are walking on the side of the major road. You are supposed to take the slower route through the countryside.
- StudentStuff 9y agoThis only seems like an issue if your in what I'd call a bad area. The definition of this seems to be "bored, overstaffed cops policing minor incidents & creating crime", which you see often in the more affluent *burbs here on the West Coast. IMO that is why areas like Lake Oswego, Shoreline, etc are slum as far as I'm concerned. I would never want to live in a place where my power goes out every other month, my house costs $800k+, and the police and local gov't are trying to fuck me at every turn. Why pay a premium for a shit community?
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoI'm basically describing Indiana outside of town. It is actually more likely in well-to-do areas since they assume folks will drive.
- StudentStuff 9y agoSmaller towns used to be more dense, but with the advent of car culture more than half the land in most smaller towns became dedicated to parking, more than doubling how far you have to walk, bike or drive through town.