>>1344493>You've never met or worked with anyone with a severe physical disability I presumeIf their disability is so sever, they won't be using a car in the first place, so it's useless to create car infrastructure for them. Instead, they'll have electric wheelchairs, but these are more than OK to me.
>That's still got a long way to go before it becomes common especially on freight carrying vehiclesI agree it's not feasible right now, but by 2030 (or even 2025) it should be implementable.
>They've always been noisy and probably always will be.All the noise I hear is from cars. I've paid attention to this when I go for a walk. Everything I hear that's loud is cars, without them I would be living in a very quiet place. I know it will never be as silent as a house in the middle of fields, but at least it could not be that noisy.
Same for light pollution, now that you've brought it. Yes, there will always be more light pollution in a city, but the amounts right now are a joke. Tons of street lights are outright oriented towards the sky, and in any given street, for 95 % of the night, lighting is completely useless as no one is outside. In 2019, we can have movement detectors to switch lights on and off, which means streets will be dark most of the time, and the electricity bill of the city will be substantially reduced (as well as the maintenance cost of the lights).
I don't expect the city to have the air and noise quality of rural areas, but I think there's a LOT of room for improvement.
