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Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) sitting at a lemonade stand, smiling, with a sign that reads, "Trains and micromobility are inevitably the future of urban transportation, whether society wants it or not. CHANGE MY MIND."
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Maybe you could try to get people in your communities to take pictures of these difficulties and write to their politicians how it is inadequate service. Perhaps there could be retrofitting done to the existing services and new regulations made for new devlopments. It seems wrong for transit not to service people with mobility issues, they can often be the ones who can most benefit from it.
This was and is done regularly. But the government sold the public transportation sector to private companies and nothing is done.
The skybridge would be required to be made accessible in the USA, regardless of whether its public or private. There are very limited exceptions to ADA requirements - the second the private company spent money "modernizing" a station without installing accessibility aids, they'd have opened themselves up to a lawsuit to compel them to make the station accessible.
I would imagine that Germany is no different that a lot of Western European countries in thinking it is better than the US (because it IS in a lot of ways). Would "we treat the disabled worse than Americans do" effectively trigger German national ego toward change? So long as you keep the convo focused on accessibility and not universal healthcare ;)
I don't know why it would matter how it is any other country? I've only really heard that in a private conversation, like "I was in XY for vacation and they had better whatever". But never as a political argument lol
Perhaps if it's a comparison to a direct neighbour like Austria or Switzerland since they are similar and a lot of Germans move there.