Category: the Rant Board
The title pretty much sums up my entire rant here on this board. Does anyone become tired of not having access to proper transportation, which severely limits where you can go. Where I live, I do have para transit, but most of us know that this is 90% unreliable, and 10% dependable. All trips have to be planned in advance, so you cannot just go somewhere spontaneouslylike I enjoy.
Of course, it took a while, but we now have Uber and Lyft. Of both of these services, I often find Lyft to be slightly cheaper, though both seem expensive considering I have no employment at the moment. An entirely different rant could be started regarding the purpose of a Vocational Rehabilitation counselor, but that is a different post for another day.
Just curious of your thoughts. I really dispise being with my parents all of the time, and I do want a job. Finding one is difficult for anyone I think, even if you have no disability.
This is one of the reasons I encourage all blind people to move to larger cities
if its at all possible. yes, its more expensive, but it allows true independence.
Without that, you will never be entirely independent.
I agree with you 100%.
I've always lived were transport was good.
I do understand however.
I once lived in a place outside of the city. Transport was okay, but it wasn't like were I'd lived before.
I'd never do it again.
I agree with Silver. If at all possible a blind person should live were they can go even if it is a small town they can walk about in.
I despise people in their safe, comfortable cars who excuse poor or unsafe bus service because they think only poor people and kids ride the bus. I hate layouts that prevent me from walking to places juss blocks away. Somebody planned that. Somebody purposely excluded every way of getting there besides driving. I won't cry if they die early from the sedentary life they force onto the rest of us.
I haven't read the answers, just the original post, so sorry if I'm repeating other
people.
First, everyone who doesn't have good transportation has my unrelenting and
unapologetic sympathies. People live where they live for a myriad of reasons. I
consider it a privilege to live where I do now, my home city where I can largely
come and go as I please. But I have lived and worked in places where I had less
freedom of movement than a sex offender on work release does. I know blind
people in that situation face a lot of judgment from other blind people, parents
/ others wanting to get kudo points for pushing the blind person, and other
crazies. I were very much like that when I was young. But living in places with
limited pedestrian and other opportunities taught me a great deal.
In many places with limited pedestrian and even bicycle capabilities, you can
follow the money and notice they are generally supported by the auto industry.
Keeping people off the sidewalks means keeping them in cars, means keeping
cars moving through dealerships. Not saying it's always the case, but frequently
it is. If you don't have any cyclist friends, or people openminded enough to
consider so-called alternate explanations to things, look around on online
bicycle forums, probably even on Facebook. They're always talking about it,
some have counted the number of dealerships wer capita in places where you
got a lot of people but good transportation, and others where you see a lot of
people but terrible sidewalks, bus service, etc.
This won't apply if you're in a small town with little enough infrastructure where
you can't raise enough money to run a bus service. But cities? Yeah, it's true.
And as I said, people live where they live for a myriad of reasons. Work, the
kids' schooling, etc. etc. Anyone can judge you while talking out both ends when
sitting on the john. Don't let 'em break you.
But living where you have your personal autonomy comes at a price. The cost of
living is generally higher in larger cities. But everything in the universe is trade,
nothing's free, so all you can do s do what you can.
Again, anyone in this situation has my unmitigated sympathies. Living with
fewer transportation options than a sex offender on work release definitely
sucks! And I for one will never ever forget what that was like. Nor judge people
in that situation as my younger perhaps more foolish teenage / 20-something
self did.
Hey Nathan. You should totally move to Richmond bro. I live down town and I can go anywhere I want, when ever I want, and often I don't have to pay a dime. Just a suggestion. If you don't like the resources in your location, move to another. And Richmond isn't that far.
btw I uninstalled uber a month ago, and haven't had a single issue with lift. and yes lift is slightly cheeper in that they don't nickle and dime you for everything like splitting rides.
text me if you have any questions. if you still have my number that is. it hasn't changed.
As usual, Leo has stated my position eloquently.
My small town just got Uber in August and it has been absolutely amazing!
As many of you may remember, I was in a position where there was nothing
available, not even safe pedestrian options. That was the worst 5 years of my
adult life as far as independence went. It was worth it because of the benefits to
my son's education but I have been much much happier as of late. After my
divorce, I sold the big house and moved to a smaller house in a different
neighborhood. There are several places to which I can walk. I've even been able
to get a Guide Dog again.
Add Uber and Lift to the mix and my world is right as rain.
There are still challenges some times but it is ever so much better than it used
to be.
All that to say, I greatly empathize with those in bad transportation situations
because I have been in your shoes.
I am hearing impaired and blind like Nathan as well. Had to move into my mom's place back in august because rent in Colorado keeps going up and up and up and up and up. Nice having more money, but there's nowhere I can walk to. And I don't have the finances to move to another state.
But in Colorado and you are as you are, you can use several methods to go.
There 24 7 and cheap too.