Image transcript:

Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, “Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND.”

  • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    A lot of the busses have it here, but not all. It also depends if you are lucky enough the bus driver is actually helping.

    For the trams it’s worse. To safe money they want to wait until the old trams get decommissioned, even when they are hard or impossible to use for disabled people. They also still build crossings made out of stairs, with no other way to reach the other side of the track unless you want to take a huge detour. Just because it’s cheap.

    Germany loves their cars more than people realise…

    • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Maybe you could try to get people in your communities to take pictures of these difficulties and write to their politicians how it is inadequate service. Perhaps there could be retrofitting done to the existing services and new regulations made for new devlopments. It seems wrong for transit not to service people with mobility issues, they can often be the ones who can most benefit from it.

      • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        This was and is done regularly. But the government sold the public transportation sector to private companies and nothing is done.

        • DarthBueller@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          The skybridge would be required to be made accessible in the USA, regardless of whether its public or private. There are very limited exceptions to ADA requirements - the second the private company spent money “modernizing” a station without installing accessibility aids, they’d have opened themselves up to a lawsuit to compel them to make the station accessible.

          I would imagine that Germany is no different that a lot of Western European countries in thinking it is better than the US (because it IS in a lot of ways). Would “we treat the disabled worse than Americans do” effectively trigger German national ego toward change? So long as you keep the convo focused on accessibility and not universal healthcare ;)

          • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know why it would matter how it is any other country? I’ve only really heard that in a private conversation, like “I was in XY for vacation and they had better whatever”. But never as a political argument lol

            Perhaps if it’s a comparison to a direct neighbour like Austria or Switzerland since they are similar and a lot of Germans move there.