• doktorseven@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Why? So they can oppress people who have mobility issues? Why is it that every single time some small brained Fuck Cars person posts, it’s horribly and insultingly ableist?

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      9 months ago

      Biking in the Netherlands, you regularly see people with different mobility devices riding in the bike lanes. That’s because bike lanes are also for people with mobility issues. The “anti-car is ableist” argument is actually itself ableist because a lot of people with mobility issues actually can’t drive either. Continued investment in car infrastructure vs bike infrastructure traps these people at home.

      https://youtu.be/B9ly7JjqEb0?si=c-Ah66UjEBhEaCuF

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      9 months ago

      If you gave a shit about people with mobility issues you’d know how dumb that statement is.

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      9 months ago

      You do realize that cars and car centric infrastructure make it harder for disabled people to get places right? You do realize that public transport is infinitly more beneficial to the disabled than cars are right?

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      9 months ago

      What a pathetic attempt at trolling.

      First of all, nothing I wrote was ableist and you fucking know it.

      Second, you say that as if subsidizing cars isn’t itself ableist, since there are plenty of disabled folks who can’t drive and therefore rely on infrastructure that accommodates alternatives like transit and walking.

      In reality, subsidizing biking doesn’t affect the disabled in any way (except possibly to help them by encouraging better lanes and ramps that can be used by both bicycles and wheelchairs). In contrast, further subsidizing car-centrism very much hurts them and you damn well know it.

    • mrpants@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      Car infra is the most ableist thing in transportation you idiot.

      Try being vision impaired and driving. Try being in a wheelchair and getting down the average American street. Try having a limp and crossing a large intersection in 20 seconds. Try being an entirely able bodied person and getting to the other side of a highway that cuts through your city.