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. >> > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
