• 2 Posts
  • 467 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle















  • Thank you!

    People so rarely think of the disabled. Sure, most modern buses can “kneel” to let someone with a wheelchair on or off, but that doesn’t exactly make public transit disability friendly. For one thing, odds are that person has to wheels themselves pretty damn far to get to and from the bus stop. There is also generally one spot that a wheelchair will fit in and one spot only. There are also usually only two seats for the disabled/elderly and the disabled not infrequently get harassed for using those seats if they don’t look disabled enough for other people’s liking.

    For another, there are many different types of disability. Having an elevator or kneeling bus doesn’t solve every disabled person’s problems with access. And what about the immunocompromised? Public transit is one of the most dangerous things you can engage in as someone susceptible to infection.

    There will always be a need for personal modes of transportation of some kind. Public transportation is wonderful and I am a huge proponent of it, but it is not the be-all and end-all solution that people like to pretend it is.