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I was just thinking about that. If I were in a wheel chair there's no way I'd just roll down the middle of the street like OP does. If a car comes down the stre
by jedimastert 6y ago
I was just thinking about that. If I were in a wheel chair there's no way I'd just roll down the middle of the street like OP does. If a car comes down the street, what am I supposed to do? It doesn't matter if only "people who live on that street use it." That just means people in wheelchairs can't really live on the street
- centimeter 6y agoIt seems reasonable to me that you would want to build high-quality, cost-effective, high-utilization wheelchair-friendly infrastructure in a few areas rather than spend a huge amount of money on low-quality low-traffic infrastructure everywhere.
- 3pt14159 6y agoSure they can. That street gets like 10 cars a day dude. I'd rather cut a cheque to people in wheelchairs than waste money on rinky dink roads.
- jschwartzi 6y agoAnd if I'm driving on a street like that and encounter a guy in a wheelchair I'd yield to them until they could yield to me. It's so small that we can easily create ADA compliance by cooperating as individuals, no need to blow a bunch of money to add a sidewalk. Hell they could add speed bumps and stuff to really slow traffic down.
- kgermino 6y agoEven where there's good sidewalks people in wheelchairs often just "roll down the middle of the street." It's smoother, easier to be seen (.˙. safer) and you're less likely to get blocked by an unexpected obstacle.
- jaggederest 6y agoOff topic, but unicode actually has a "therefore" symbol ( ∴ ). Not sure how universal it is, but it exists
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- crote 6y agoThe Dutch have a concept called "woonerf". Basically, the car is a guest on that street and pedestrians have priority. You're only allowed to drive 10mph, and street furniture enforces this quite strictly. So, a wheelchair riding in the middle of the street? A car is just going to either drive slowly behind him, or pull over to let him pass. Pedestrians have absolute priority, provided they aren't intentionally hindering cars.