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And plenty of them can't, and can barely tolerate being in even a mobility scooter.
So would you support removing cars with disability transport being one of the few exceptions? Because that would make it easier for most disabled people without making it harder for any.
Yes! Of course!
In my ideal world, there would be general, semi-individualized, semi on demand, or at least 'request a ride in advance', electric or hydrogen or hybrid (or perhaps even locally sourced bio diesel powered, if electric or hydrogen is too cost prohibitive) mini busses or vans that would help people with mobility difficulties get to and from daily tasks within a city or multi city region.
This would be like ambulances, like fire trucks, like ... other busses.
Some important services just cannot be practically un-car-ified, and still function at all effectively.
This is why most busses in Seattle, and much of the US broadly, have deployable disability ramps and internal wheelchair attachment point zones, so that wheelchair bound folks can get around.
It would probably be more generally time effiecient to have just a seperate fleet dedicated to them/us in particular, given that a single wheel chair pickup/deboard for a city bus can throw off its entire planned timetable by a good amount, in high density, high traffic, peak ridership hours.
... but thats getting a bit into the precise technicalities.
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For long distance disabled travel? Yeah, this is a legitimately more difficult logistics problem to solve in a general way that isn't wildly costly to either the rider, or the ride provider... but bicycles are probably the least sensible solution to this problem I've ever heard.