Man, I’m crippled. You’ve entirely missed the point.
The concept here is the entire way a city or community is laid out and designed.
You wanna see a solution to your problem?
Look at any city that currently exists that has at least half decent public transit, or town where its reasonably safe to walk to common places you’d need to go.
There are tons of these, by the way, places that have figured out how to do this.
You’re mad that you live in a poorly designed and poorly funded exurb area.
Howabout this?
Sell your inconviently located home, at the current market rate, and move to somewhere that doesn’t have these problems.
What, is too much of your net worth tied up in your home?
Wow! How did that happen?
I wonder why your community is built in such a way that that could happen… maybe decades and decades of giving handouts to homeowners and driving up their prices and requiring everything else in reality bend over backwards to subsidize them… has maybe just completely proven to be fundamentally economically unviable, with infrastructure needing to be spread too far and thin, constantly being subsidized by the urban core areas that generate the vast majority of jobs and tax revenue?
If that doesn’t make sense…
I’m sorry.
In addition to your physical ailments…
You also have terminal car brain. Yes, it’s fatal.
In pedestrian-friendly cities, children usually just walk to school. They’re called 15 minute cities because because you can get anywhere you need, including schools, in 15 minutes.
Also, because there’s fewer roads to maintain, and the majority of people walk, the streets actually get plowed and handicapped folks often have an easier time getting around than in car-centric cities.
The true road to enlightenment starts when you realize that SUVs just aren’t fit to haul your kids and your groceries, and that the only logical path forward is to buy a massive lifted truck that puts a Sherman tank to shame to drive your statistical 37 miles per day in some modicum of safety.
They also tend to have less sprawl, more homogenous and high trust societies (relative to where most people live in the US), and a shaky history of true legally enforced disability considerations. On that latter part, there still isn’t a good equivalent to the ADA in European peer countries. Europeans will hand wave it away, but it’s too patchwork and exclusionary.
All things in this scope considered (i.e., not healthcare necessarily), I’d rather be disabled in the US than in Europe or most Asian countries because the US actually have strong legal protections both federally and at the state levels. Lack of extensive public transport outside of a couple major hubs is obviously a problem for most people (especially the disabled). But no other country comes close to enshrining protections like the US did with the ADA (and how some states extended it even more themselves).
Imagine no cars when you got a physical disability, and two kids who need to be taken to school in winter, I’ll just toss em on my back and fly.
And yes perfect transit and funding would fix this. When that happens I’ll show you a pig flying
Man, I’m crippled. You’ve entirely missed the point.
The concept here is the entire way a city or community is laid out and designed.
You wanna see a solution to your problem?
Look at any city that currently exists that has at least half decent public transit, or town where its reasonably safe to walk to common places you’d need to go.
There are tons of these, by the way, places that have figured out how to do this.
You’re mad that you live in a poorly designed and poorly funded exurb area.
Howabout this?
Sell your inconviently located home, at the current market rate, and move to somewhere that doesn’t have these problems.
What, is too much of your net worth tied up in your home?
Wow! How did that happen?
I wonder why your community is built in such a way that that could happen… maybe decades and decades of giving handouts to homeowners and driving up their prices and requiring everything else in reality bend over backwards to subsidize them… has maybe just completely proven to be fundamentally economically unviable, with infrastructure needing to be spread too far and thin, constantly being subsidized by the urban core areas that generate the vast majority of jobs and tax revenue?
If that doesn’t make sense…
I’m sorry.
In addition to your physical ailments…
You also have terminal car brain. Yes, it’s fatal.
Having large sidewalks, bikelanes and good public transport does not mean that you are not allowed to bring your kids to school in your car.
However, it means that your kids could walk to school or use the bike/bus in an environment that is safer and less polluted.
In pedestrian-friendly cities, children usually just walk to school. They’re called 15 minute cities because because you can get anywhere you need, including schools, in 15 minutes.
Also, because there’s fewer roads to maintain, and the majority of people walk, the streets actually get plowed and handicapped folks often have an easier time getting around than in car-centric cities.
my 15 minute car city is a 25 minute ebike city and it’s pretty great
Or just the average European city or small town
Good point, SUVs for everyone is the only truly enlightened path.
Creating an exaggerated argument to argue against, one that no one made, does not nothing but display your emotional immaturity.
How so? The person they replied to is also mocking in bad faith.
“i have a disability and your idea doesn’t work for me or people like me”
“shut up that is bad faith go back to being a doormat and never mention disability again”
now why do i see this conversation spring up everywhere people on the internet are discussing getting rid of cars
The true road to enlightenment starts when you realize that SUVs just aren’t fit to haul your kids and your groceries, and that the only logical path forward is to buy a massive lifted truck that puts a Sherman tank to shame to drive your statistical 37 miles per day in some modicum of safety.
You do know that other places in the world have disabled people and children who go to school, right?
They seem to still be alive.
They also tend to have less sprawl, more homogenous and high trust societies (relative to where most people live in the US), and a shaky history of true legally enforced disability considerations. On that latter part, there still isn’t a good equivalent to the ADA in European peer countries. Europeans will hand wave it away, but it’s too patchwork and exclusionary.
All things in this scope considered (i.e., not healthcare necessarily), I’d rather be disabled in the US than in Europe or most Asian countries because the US actually have strong legal protections both federally and at the state levels. Lack of extensive public transport outside of a couple major hubs is obviously a problem for most people (especially the disabled). But no other country comes close to enshrining protections like the US did with the ADA (and how some states extended it even more themselves).
we’re kidding ourselves if we pretend it’s anything more than a de jure situation.
Yeah they have CARS.
Cars continue to work even if fewer people need to drive to get where they need.
Get a grip