On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 04:53 PM Friday 9/14/2007, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 02:00 PM Friday 9/14/2007, jon louis mann wrote:
They don't conviently forget it. You are the only person who has
mentioned forcing people to walk.
Martin
what about electric cars exemptions for those
who can prove they can't ambulate; i see
yuppies in their bmws all the time with
handicapped placards who are definitely not handicapped.
jon
Perhaps you know more about their situation than
the little mentioned above, but people who have
something like heart or breathing problems which
allow them to walk short distances just fine but
may be act up if they exert themselves by walking
a greater distance qualify for handicapped
parking permits. It is not limited and should
not be limited to people in wheelchairs or who
look about 80 or 90 hard years old.
Or there are people who can walk 2 blocks with
effort, but can't walk 10, period, without being
in extreme pain for the next week.
Yep. As there are people who can possibly
function apparently normally one day (or part of
one day) but then pay for it by being housebound
or virtually bedridden for the next several days.
And if you see one of them going from
handicapped parking space to business, you might
think they acquired the placard illegally.
If there's some system in place for electric
cabs or something, that would make the solution
more reasonable for those who have disabilities, visible or invisible.
Julia
Free or for a fee? Or maybe a better
question: would it cost a dollar or so like the
bus or more like a taxi? And would it run a
route like the bus or door-to-door like a taxi?
For someone who had real mobility issues, both visible and like the ones
above, I'd want door-to-door.
And having been near 6th St. in Austin last night trying to get a cab, I
noticed a lot of things, including pedicabs. If you get a sane driver and
it's not bad weather, pedicabs are fun. (Although I'm not sure how sane
it is to pedal one of those things in Austin traffic. I did *not*
consider that as an alternative to the cab. What ended up happening was
my driving the car of the drunk person who'd parked nearby and was
planning on spending the night with the friend at whose place I'd parked
my own car, and that worked out very nicely for all 3 of us. But that's
back to internal combustion engines again, and the thread isn't about
Clever Solutions For Getting Out Of the Party District.)
Julia
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