@lgsp @davidho

"Les Parisiens disent oui à la végétalisation de 500 nouvelles rues"

https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/les-parisiens-votent-pour-la-vegetalisation-de-500-nouvelles-rues-23-03-2025-GBAJ6U7QM5AHHA5FNLLXYQJHLI.php

@lgsp @davidho yeah, I can't read the article at all. Anyone have more details, like when the vote takes place?

@rpl6475 does door-to-door transportation require personal cars/trucks?

@rpl6475 @davidho bike infrastructure is also infrastructure for people with limited mobility. Since moving to the Netherlands I've noticed a really interesting device which is basically a powered wheel folks can hook up to their wheelchairs. These don't really exist in car dependent places like the US where a lot of disabled folks are trapped in their houses.

People love to talk about "door-to-door" mobility solutions without realizing that the custom designed cars that they're probably thinking of are so expensive that most folks who need them to participate in car dependent societies can't afford them anyway. They also don't seem to think about the fact that a lot of people with limited mobility are also old and can't safely operate a car.

Since moving to the Netherlands I've noticed a lot of folks using bike lanes with mobility devices. You see a much wider range of mobility here because those folks aren't just trapped inside their homes by car dependent infrastructure.

This type of change is actually aligned with disability justice and car culture is not, even though car companies have spent decades trying to make us believe the opposite.