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I have two words for you: mobility scooters.

If you want more words, let's look into "public transportation", "paratransit", "vehicles that are not cars", "walking canes", and "false dichotomy".

In other words, the answer to your question is "no", and the proposed solution is friendlier towards people who are old enough to have difficulty walking (and some of whom maybe shouldn't drive anyway).


So you're going to allow people to run delivery services in busses? Because how else can you deliver to the housebound? Bikes are out: They're not allowed on pedestrian areas, and you can't haul much on one anyway. Electric scooters are out for the same reasons, as are "mobility" scooters.

I suppose there's no law saying you have to allow the housebound to live in a region.


> you can't haul much on [a bike] anyway.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. Here's someone moving a fridge (!) on a bike trailer.[1] And that's on a regular bike, not an e-bike.

1. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/06/23/how-to-carry-majo...


Why would we allow trailers in a pedestrian area?

We wouldn't. We wouldn't even allow bikes in a pedestrian area.


Why wouldn't bikes be allowed in a car-free zone?


FWIW those people are poorly served indeed by a car-only city when they are no longer fit to drive & lose their license.


There was an allowance for public transport (busses, trams etc)




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