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Can we say Jarrett is visually impaired and can't drive? Let's also say Jarrett is a school teacher and earns less than $40k/year. Jarrett has very limited opt
by djsumdog 9y ago
Can we say Jarrett is visually impaired and can't drive? Let's also say Jarrett is a school teacher and earns less than $40k/year.
Jarrett has very limited options now. This person can live in one of the few (like three? four if you stretch?) cities in the US with decent enough transport to get around, that aren't insanely expensive to live in ... or just have to get lucky and find a house in walking distance of the school and a grocery store and a bus stop to the city.
Jarrett isn't going to be able to afford a Lyft/Uber and is very limited on their ability to even be social.
- pjc50 9y ago"has to be a minority option" is an arithmetic necessity of density: you can't have everyone owning cars in a high-density city because it's physically impossible to fit them on the roads.
- Arnt 9y agoRight. I suppose Jarrett would say that if a place is dense enough to have more than occasional traffic jams, then it already is too dense that its transport problems can be solved by road construction.