Well, neverminding the 12.2 mile distance, my only option besides a freeway would be a road that is four lane with no sidewalks (it’s technically suburban but for most of the way there’s only the occasional house or business, so I would be in the right lane all the way) with a speed limit of 45 and no street lights.
As a wheelchair user, I’d have to use a four-wheel device. I don’t know the range on those because I don’t own one.
The Amtrak ticket would only be $11, although I’d have to leave at 11:50pm the night before AND the bus doesn’t carry wheelchairs anyway. heh. Paratransit doesn’t run early enough, either.
Nor are they available to disabled people. But people like @Michal@programming.dev think they have the whole world figured out because they have the privilege to do so.
In some ways, it was worse - when I lived in the same city as the dialysis place, before I was driving again, I took paratransit. Although it’s a “shared ride” and sometimes I’d actually have a fellow passenger, most of the time it was just me in the van. heh.
(Although I know for a fact that during “rush hour” they would sometimes have entire groups going close enough to need a van)
Oof. It would be hilarious to try and take the bus to the Amtrak station in the city in which I live, go up one station to the city in which the dialysis center is located, take the bus to dialysis, have my dialysis, then go back. I’m not sure I could do that in a single day. Certainly not my chair time of 6:00am. But let’s see:
Well, alright. Actually, Amtrak ticket would be $11, which is not bad. And while the ride would be 4:21am-4:20am, I wouldn’t be able to get a bus until 6:00, getting to dialysis 25 minutes late.
The first obstacle is that I would have to leave my apartment for the Amtrak station at 11:30pm the previous day, as service doesn’t run in the middle of the night.
You could skip all of them if you take a bus /train/bike. This is of course if you have the option. I don’t know your situation.
Wheelchair user, too, come to that. lol
E-Bike? E-Scooter? That’s easier than walking depending on how far away you park.
Not when there is a 6 lane freeway between you and your destination.
Well, neverminding the 12.2 mile distance, my only option besides a freeway would be a road that is four lane with no sidewalks (it’s technically suburban but for most of the way there’s only the occasional house or business, so I would be in the right lane all the way) with a speed limit of 45 and no street lights.
As a wheelchair user, I’d have to use a four-wheel device. I don’t know the range on those because I don’t own one.
How much could they cost? $10?
/s
The Amtrak ticket would only be $11, although I’d have to leave at 11:50pm the night before AND the bus doesn’t carry wheelchairs anyway. heh. Paratransit doesn’t run early enough, either.
Not everywhere yet, but there are growing regulations and outright bans of e-bikes across US municipalities.
And there is the root of the problem.
Those options are increasingly not available in American cities
Nor are they available to disabled people. But people like @Michal@programming.dev think they have the whole world figured out because they have the privilege to do so.
In some ways, it was worse - when I lived in the same city as the dialysis place, before I was driving again, I took paratransit. Although it’s a “shared ride” and sometimes I’d actually have a fellow passenger, most of the time it was just me in the van. heh.
(Although I know for a fact that during “rush hour” they would sometimes have entire groups going close enough to need a van)
Oof. It would be hilarious to try and take the bus to the Amtrak station in the city in which I live, go up one station to the city in which the dialysis center is located, take the bus to dialysis, have my dialysis, then go back. I’m not sure I could do that in a single day. Certainly not my chair time of 6:00am. But let’s see:
Well, alright. Actually, Amtrak ticket would be $11, which is not bad. And while the ride would be 4:21am-4:20am, I wouldn’t be able to get a bus until 6:00, getting to dialysis 25 minutes late.
The first obstacle is that I would have to leave my apartment for the Amtrak station at 11:30pm the previous day, as service doesn’t run in the middle of the night.