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- urbanplanning@lemmy.ml
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I keep hitting the downvote button, the purple messages filling up my screen, but the world refuses to change.
Well now you know how much it sucks to be un-able to do something.
I am well aware, thank you. Properly designed infrastructure for bicycles and people with disabilities however has a lot of overlap, because you're solving for the same problem. A curb is shitty to go over and this holds true for both wheelchairs, people on foot with moblity issues and also bicycles. As are stairs, as are certain gates.
It's stupid to pit one against the other. You're never going to get rid of the last-mile problem with public transport, no matter which way you go about it. There's always a distance to cover from your stop to wherever you need to go. The point is to make that way as smooth as possible. This benefits both people with mobility issues and bicycles, because it's the same problem.
Yeah, let's spend millions of scarce public infrastructure money to appease middle class Tour De France LARPers because people in wheelchairs might tangentially benefit from lowered curbs.
Yes, every cyclist is a lycra clad tour de france larper. It's not like there's an abundance of countrys where people use them as means of transportation.
But, okay, hit me. how do you solve the last mile problem?
Why don't you tell me how cycling solves the last mile problem for differently abled person? You're just moving goalposts now.
Where I live cycling pathways are widely used by differently abled people all the time, and the infrastructure does benefit both
Cycling isn't ableist. Building infrastructure exclusively to the bike is (same with the car), but a good city is going to have the possibility of different modes of transport. Including car so you can have transport vans that go directly to places for people who need them.
