Argumentative Essay On Not Driving

Looking around our home there are many things that can assist and benefit a service user with multiple conditions and/or disabilities such as walking frames, walking sticks, wheelchairs, bed and chair aids, bath and shower aids and hoisting aids, eating aids, writing aids etc. There are aids for most daily living tasks, to assist with quality of life etc. The manoeuvrable roll with four wheels is a great energy saver. It differs from the walker in that the user does not need to use arm or back muscles to lift it up or set it down. Writing aid, page turner, ball point pen

As you all know, getting a head start in life is not an easy task. Obstacles are notorious for popping up when we least expect and even when we are utterly unprepared. Often at times, I have overheard my fellow students asking, "why do we need school?" The answer I have personally come up with is that school is and was designed to prepare students for the real world. A large portion of students of Selinsgrove Area High School, myself included, do not have access to Driver Educational classes, or commonly known as Driver's Ed. The reason I bring this up is that if the purpose of school is to prepare oneself for adulthood and one of the vital necessities a young adult must be acquainted with is the ability to drive an automobile, then why is Driver's Ed not a given class here?

Transportation is an everyday occurrence in today’s society; it takes you where you need to in a timely manner. In the article “The Bus, a Modern Panacea” by Lester Detroit, he explains that taking the VTA is a “cure-all” solution. Detroit notes that the VTA is convenient because students do not have to drive around to find parking space. He revels that students can save money with the free Echo Pass that is provided with registered SJSU students. He also notes that taking the VTA helps with the environmental problems because it solves traffic congestion, rising oil consumption, and carbon pollution.

Due to the new funding of Measure BB, there are more options for expansion than ever before. Furthermore, according to several stakeholders, increasing more wheelchair accessible services and having more availability to same day service is important for maintaining independence and safety for the seniors and people with disabilities of Alameda County. In addition to the population of the baby boomers on the rise, it is important to find solutions for today, as well as planning for tomorrow.

One of the issues people in poverty suffer from is transportation and the lack of public

Having a universal design in a TOD neighborhood it can benefit people that finds it hard for them to commute without these commendations. Over time we learn that one universal design can work for one disability but not for another. For example, like stairways is important aspect in buildings. If there a fire in the building you can use the fire exit to exit the building more easily when evacuating from a building. But stairway sometimes doesn’t help people that have physical disabilities where they cannot walk. In the 1900’s elevator was implemented. Because there was movement in the United States for people that have disabilities and wanted equal rights. Eventually, the legislation guarantees people with disabilities to have equal access to the physical environment (Grosbois et al.

I would like to focus and investigate the lack of age appropriate transportation services for the elderly and people with disabilities. The issue of transportation becomes a major concern when the elderly and people who are disabled develop uncontrollable age related illnesses and are no longer healthy to drive. Losing the privilege to drive brings independence to an end and forces the elderly to stay at home which may lead to despair and other emotions. Therefore, it is essential to provide our senior citizens and people with disabilities with reliable transportation to help them maintain their independence. It is important to create reliable services to support them in making choices about how they want to live the last years of their

public transit networks. But just how serious is the burden of car ownership, and how exactly does

We watched “Taken for a ride” documentary that finally gave an answer to my inquiries about American transportation. I am European and, before, I never quite understood why Americans use drive-ups, rather than doing healthy walking, and—why sitting in traffic for them seems natural, except for the fact that they have so big road arteries and easy free parking spaces, that function as incentive to drive, not to forget that gas prices (very high in Europe) here are very cheap. Moreover, since I started using the bus to commute to campus, I had an impression of some kind of stigma enveloping the bus system, as if it is in use for poor and minorities.

This type of transportation includes riding trains, buses, and driving cars. According to the report titled Active Transportation and the Built Environment by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) an estimated 66% of all adults are overweight and have some type of chronic disease (“Active Transportation and The Built Environment,” 2014). This is largely due to ineffective policies that are in place and do not promote active transportation. These policies have prevented the city from incorporating a better system that would improve and increase walkability, bikeability, and allow residents to stay physically active while reducing chronic disease risk. Simply having these strategies in effect will not guarantee lower rates of chronic diseases nor boost resident participation. There are still many circumstances that come into play that prevent residents from using active transportation. Many times, residents won’t use a walk ways because the area is unwelcoming, there are no sidewalks or crosswalks, there’s high criminal activity, and there is very little street lighting (“Active Transportation and The Built Environment,” 2014). Similarly, residents will stay away from using bicycles for transportation because there are not enough bike lanes, roads are filled with potholes, and there are no clear road markings for cyclist (“Active Transportation

Public transportation is serious need of a massive overhaul in this nation. We are in desperate need to catch up to the European standard of public transportation in this country. In Europe, citizens can travel across cities, bodies of water, and even counties with their state of the art public transportation system. Europeans are not nearly as reliant on cars and oil as the United States is because they have the much more practical option of taking the transportation provided to them by the government to where ever they need to go. They have set a model that the United States needs to strive for and meet in the near future.

Public transportation outweighs the burden of car expenses. People that use public transportation usually pay a small amount of money to buy a ticket to get to their destination. This is cheaper than paying for gas or a taxi ride. With that being said, The President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers recalls that “many people in these communities cannot afford cars.” (1). Meaning, that rural communities and other communities with fewer resources cannot rely on public transportation. Therefore, this is why it is important that other forms of transportation are accessible to people other than walking or biking.

This argument analysis will be on the presentation from a woman whose nephew had been permanently injured to do a teenage driving accident. We watched in class called “Putting the Brakes on Teenage Driving”. The speaker provided a policy claim that the government should raise the legal age to drive in the United States. The speaker talks about how there are too many accidents that cause death or injury that involve teenage drivers. The speaker outlines 4 main arguments; inexperience, brain development, night driving, and teenage passengers. During the end of the analysis the speaker provides 3 possible solutions to implement in order to lower the number of accidents caused by teenage drivers.

goeverden et al (2006) stated subsidy is necessary for public transport. First, vulnerable groups such as low-income households, those without driver’s license, people with disabilities need to be motivated to avoid the problem of social exclusion. In this case the subsidy serves as a 'social function’. Second, limit the use of private

The use of public transportation provides an opportunity for people to be able to travel from one place to another at a low cost and also delivering care for people who are not able to care for themselves. Public transportation or Public transit is also known as mass transit for a reason, because it is designed to serve the masses. If a person has little choice to use private transport, they would be willing to pay a premium for convenience and health purposes. But that does not make it a solution for people who depend on low-cost public transportation to get to their destination (Cho, You, & Yoon, 2017).