I remember getting into this with my wife. She is into buses and those were black magic, I liked the subways. Took a few bus rides with her and she converted me. Both are great options with pros and cons.
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"Not everyone can walk or cycle"
The only response needed for that statement is the following video.
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Exactly. Which is why people who ate on the opposite end of the extreme, insisting that all cars of all kinds must be banished, are so annoying.
There's no one size fits all system, so stop with the "everyone should just ride the bus or train you don't need cars" rubbish. Neither extreme are correct. We live in the real world.
We should make it such that people don't need cars though.
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A walkable city means everything is closer for everyone, so if you have mobility issues you can just use a slower, safer, more efficient vehicle like a scooter or a cart that still suits your needs since you don't have to go as far as to need a car.
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All transportation-modes matter! ATM
Try living in rural areas anywhere in North America, there isnt the tax money to have proper transit in these locations, theres enough for handy dart systems for those physically unable to drive, but not enough for the entire populous, Cars are the only economic solution in most North American rural centers
Why should any of that matter for making transport better in cities where none of this applies
To be fair, if the rural area has a "downtown", it could still be made to be walkable in at least that area.
Yes, those two blocks are already walkable.
Rural areas are less an applicable argument against walkable city development. I've lived in rural Tennessee for a lot of my life, I understand; however, talking about that environment in the context of city development discussions doesn't make sense.
Oh, yeah, in City environments theres no excuse not to be walkable and transitable
edit: I see I missed the word city in the paragraph that Lisa was ranting about. I thought this was a rant targetted towards ALL environments and not City Specific