What makes me really sad about this is that there are so many people who advocate against walkability, claiming that it's because of people like you who would, in their warped view, be *inconvenienced* by walkability. Even though reading your own comments it's pretty clear you know that's a load of bullshit. It's not as though wheelchairs, adaptive bikes/trikes, and mobility scooters don't become a hell of a lot easier to use when you can use a safe, separated bike lane to travel 5 km, than they are if the trip is 15 km along wide stroads with no footpath.

Oh yeah, absolutely, it is ludicrous when people do that. If you have decent sidewalks, intetsections that are not a 1/2 mile apart, and god forbid, regular low grade inclines at crossings and other places, so that a wheel chair bound person could actually get around? Well then blamo, throw a back pack on the frame of your chair/scooter, now you can actually go to a local bodega and buy some groceries! Makes it easier for people who use a cane or crutches, or have a non obvious outwardly presenting neurological or muscular condition of some kind, etc. But, US infrastructure broadly isn't ADA compliant in the poorer areas seriously disabled people most commonly live... and we literally can't, or struggle much more seriously in physically getting to an actual town hall. Fucking... after a two months of aquatherapy, well now all I have the option to do is show up for basically the night swim at the therapy pool. My problem is not that I need directed care ... I was taught the excercizes/stretches, learned them, remembered them. I do the ones I can at home, out of a pool, every damned day. The problem is it costs 5 dollars, **_in cash only_**, to attend. I can't fucking get to an ATM! I told them this and they just uh well you'll figure it out. Nope, never did. There are no ATMs within over a mile of a walking roundtrip from me. But at this point, I am extremely used to falling through the cracks in systems, that are designed based on assumptions... that make no sense to hold, because ostensibly the entire point of these systems is that they are to help those who do not have those basic societal assumptions. You tell people in these systems this, and every fucking time, no one has ever told them this before, this thought had never occured to them, or they get angry at you. It is astounding.