ysabetwordsmith | Community Building Tip: Car-Free

For my current set of tips, I'm using the list "101 Small Ways You Can Improve Your City.

44. Organize a local car-free day. Every September 22 cities around the world participate in a global Car-Free Day, showcasing the possibilities of a more progressive commute and the advantages of walkable streets and biking infrastructure. Want to be inspired? Check out 14 beautiful car-free cities.

Regrettably, neither of the sites seemed to say anything about accessibility. Now if you're blind, not worrying about getting run over by a car could be a great thing. But for anyone with mobility issues, more often than not "car-free" might as well be "on the Moon." And it's not like we don't have solutions for that, I just didn't see anyone advertising things like palanquins for places where wheelchairs can't easily go. So if you're lobbying for car-free areas, remember to make them accessible to everyone. Even normally able-bodied people can be screwed the moment they break a foot, get pregnant, or have a baby carriage to push.

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If you could get to Narnia, you could always ask one of the Talking Horses for a lift. While they're very averse to slavery, they're not obnoxious and they're fond of teamwork. Presumably they barter with other people for tasks that require thumbs.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL! That's true.

(Hey no brain, we are not writing a fic where disabled people go to Narnia...)

But it would be so much fun! :D Even Aslan carried the Queens once.

Besides, the place is full of Talking Beasts. How do they accommodate body differences that make people better or worse at doing certain things? The books only hint at that, but do show mixed groups routinely.

I'm reminded of Zootopia and all the ways their infrastructure accommodated different body shapes. They had some disability fail for other reasons, but the built environment was pretty awesome.

Community Building Tip: Car-Free

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