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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

So much this

Also, what's three minutes for one person could be ten or twenty for someone else who can barely stand for five

There's a restaurant I like to go to that if you have certain disabilities, good luck getting there. The closest handicap parking spot is a block and a half away and there's only one, or a bit further there are a few in a parking garage. It's an uphill incline to get there and there's not a single bench the entire way between parking and the restaurant. If you're disabled but not to the point of being in a wheelchair, or don't have someone who can push that wheelchair uphill, and don't have a mobility scooter, you ain't getting there

And that's with our current car infrastructure, and just one example out of many of disabled hostile design in our car centric reality that people who've not had to navigate it from that perspective just don't understand. And they never bother asking someone who does experience it. So, I'm pretty tired of hearing the bullshit excuse of how it would be bad for disabled people if we went to walkable cities with public transit.

Stop using disabled people as your gotcha argument