I mean, you’re talking to one right now. I sympathize, i see the need, but the fuckcars philosophy pushes a little extreme because they often forget the folk who rely on cars, not because of the infrastructure deficiencies but because their bodies broke. like, if you’ve tried to use public transit or accommodations with a wheelchair, you find out pretty quickly why you almost never see anyone in a wheelchair on the light rail. The accommodations for them were built with people who can easily and quickly transfer in mind, and if you can’t transfer then fuck you basically. it’s an extreme reactionary position where what would benefit us all is somewhere in the middle (though, let’s be honest, way closer to the fuckcars side than what we’ve currently got)
First, I absolutely see people in wheelchairs on the light rail where I live, that’s mostly a problem for cities where the rail system predates the ADA. Second, I’m very much not forgetting those people, partly because less traffic helps them as much as any driver, and even more because it’s simply naive to imagine that the majority of people with disabilities are able to drive but not able to take a bus or train.
like, we’ve had these conversations on here before and you and the majority of the other fuckcars folk on here i am convinced get it. but if i pop onto reddit (yeah i know, bad idea) or wherever else i’ve seen fuckcars stuff (i don’t really want to remember that hard) it tends just to be the loudest “get rid of cars, put in transit as it currently exists everywhere and call it a day” idiots. it requires a total rethinking. but a lot more people are disabled than you’d think, we just hide it as well as we can because as soon as it becomes visible we start getting death threats.
I mean, you’re talking to one right now. I sympathize, i see the need, but the fuckcars philosophy pushes a little extreme because they often forget the folk who rely on cars, not because of the infrastructure deficiencies but because their bodies broke. like, if you’ve tried to use public transit or accommodations with a wheelchair, you find out pretty quickly why you almost never see anyone in a wheelchair on the light rail. The accommodations for them were built with people who can easily and quickly transfer in mind, and if you can’t transfer then fuck you basically. it’s an extreme reactionary position where what would benefit us all is somewhere in the middle (though, let’s be honest, way closer to the fuckcars side than what we’ve currently got)
First, I absolutely see people in wheelchairs on the light rail where I live, that’s mostly a problem for cities where the rail system predates the ADA. Second, I’m very much not forgetting those people, partly because less traffic helps them as much as any driver, and even more because it’s simply naive to imagine that the majority of people with disabilities are able to drive but not able to take a bus or train.
like, we’ve had these conversations on here before and you and the majority of the other fuckcars folk on here i am convinced get it. but if i pop onto reddit (yeah i know, bad idea) or wherever else i’ve seen fuckcars stuff (i don’t really want to remember that hard) it tends just to be the loudest “get rid of cars, put in transit as it currently exists everywhere and call it a day” idiots. it requires a total rethinking. but a lot more people are disabled than you’d think, we just hide it as well as we can because as soon as it becomes visible we start getting death threats.