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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm a part time wheelchair user with some walking ability and there are a lot of spaces in my city that are too inaccessible for me to use. I don't mean internal space, I mean the built environment of the city itself. There's one route which, if I'm walking, is 0.2 miles. If I'm in my wheelchair, it's just under 0.6 because I have to take a weird route that doubles back on myself, because city designers put little ledges everywhere without considering how mobility aid users can be impacted

Of course you're right to highlight that a properly supportive and inclusive world requires more components than just modifications to the built environment, but I think that making accessible spaces needs to be in people's minds from the get go, and that "some people can't walk three minutes" is a useful idea for this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Thanks for adding context Yeah, wheelchair accessibility is still a very relevant thing for us to work on. (Not to mention general walkability.) I think a bench quota is a bit tangent to that.

There's a good YouTube video on "Stroads" and how they've ruined our cities.