I'd love to be able to use more public transit. After all, I'm
blind, in case the username didn't give away my secret.
However, my city does not offer bus service on nights and weekends,
and frequently places that I wish to go are not even served by the bus
system, even though they are definitely within my city.
I try to walk to as many places as I possibly can. For the rest, if I'm
going somewhere during the day and it is reachable by bus, I do that.
Otherwise, I'm stuck taking a cab.
In reality, what this means is that I try to limit the things I do outside
of my home. That's kind of easy for an agoraphobic anti-consumerist nerd.
But still, I'm grateful for online shopping when I need it.
As an aside, the ideal city for a blind person in the United States is
Portland Oregon. I don't live too far from there, and I visit it
occasionally. The Max is beautiful. Portland has obviously made
a huge effort to provide great mass transit, and from what I saw, it was
very heavily used.
I try to walk to as many places as I possibly can. For the rest, if I'm going somewhere during the day and it is reachable by bus, I do that. Otherwise, I'm stuck taking a cab. In reality, what this means is that I try to limit the things I do outside of my home. That's kind of easy for an agoraphobic anti-consumerist nerd. But still, I'm grateful for online shopping when I need it.
As an aside, the ideal city for a blind person in the United States is Portland Oregon. I don't live too far from there, and I visit it occasionally. The Max is beautiful. Portland has obviously made a huge effort to provide great mass transit, and from what I saw, it was very heavily used.