Really good point! The footpath camber in some major streets in Medway - Rochester High Street for one - is so bad that I can only roll in a straight line along the footpath by pushing with one hand and simultaneously braking with the other. Which is rather energy consuming!
if a disabled person lives in a place where all the roads within 15 minutes of their home are too steep to travel safely, how does going even further from home help? If you need to travel an hour to get to the shop, you're still going to have to go through the steep bits in order to continue further.
I agree entirely, my objection to the concept isn't that disabled people will need to go elsewhere, but that you need to ensure they can use their local, 15 minute, amenities, whether they're a wheelchair user faced by inaccessible slopes, someone who walks much slower and with more effort than others, and so on. And that's going to require much more intensive public transport planning than anything I've seen proposed for a 15 minute city, where the default assumption seems to be 'everyone will be able to walk everywhere, so we don't need public transport outside of longer journeys'.
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Date: 2024-01-24 03:14 pm (UTC)Really good point! The footpath camber in some major streets in Medway - Rochester High Street for one - is so bad that I can only roll in a straight line along the footpath by pushing with one hand and simultaneously braking with the other. Which is rather energy consuming!
I agree entirely, my objection to the concept isn't that disabled people will need to go elsewhere, but that you need to ensure they can use their local, 15 minute, amenities, whether they're a wheelchair user faced by inaccessible slopes, someone who walks much slower and with more effort than others, and so on. And that's going to require much more intensive public transport planning than anything I've seen proposed for a 15 minute city, where the default assumption seems to be 'everyone will be able to walk everywhere, so we don't need public transport outside of longer journeys'.