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[Prof David West]

I am a consultant (we are designing the IT necessary to support their activities) to a non-profit in Minneapolis / St. Paul called Cycling Without Age - Twin Cities. It is patterned after CWA that started in Copenhagen. The Danish version offers tri-shaw rides to seniors so they can get outside and enjoy nature. CWA-TC extends this to rides for purpose, like grocery shopping and Dr. appointments.  They operate year round (the tri-shaws have light weight coverings.

In addition to providing rides; CWA-TC addresses issues of senior loneliness and isolation, food insecurity, and, eventually, when drivers can be paid rather than volunteers, employment for under-represented individuals.

Definitely part of a multi-pronged solution.

davew


On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, at 9:42 AM, glen wrote:
> +1 Even though I have a pickup that I don't use as intended, my 
> experiments with the motorcycle and bicycle for everyday commuting have 
> failed for the most part. But I'd push for a compromise within a 
> spectrum of non-car solutions, a manifold approach like:
>
> 1) ban all cars from downtown areas,
> 2) build bike-sized personal transport that doesn't depend on balanced 
> control,
> 3) optimize for multi-person transport between dense populations and 
> oft-traveled routes,
> 4) self-driving cars for diaspora into suburban/rural areas.
>
> Bicycles/skateboards/scooters don't work for all sorts of reasons 
> (sight, balance, carpal tunnel, rain/snow/ice, freight, etc.). People 
> movers only work for some use cases. Etc. ≥4 person things like cars 
> have obvious problems, but also obvious use cases.
>
> Part of the problem, of course, would be to get enough people on board, 
> to centralize the plan enough, to make it do any good ... for the 
> climate or whatever problems we're trying to solve.
>
> On 3/11/22 09:30, cody dooderson wrote:
>> 
>> I think a global ban on automobiles would go a long way in GGE, without having to resort to nuclear winter and massive population culling. I am also a proponent of getting rid of automobiles because I am totally sick of them. I would really like to be able to leave my house without having to constantly dodge speeding hunks of metal.
>> 
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