In my parents’ day, you only had a few options to get around the neighborhood if you didn’t have a car or a bicycle.
- At least in our neighborhood there isn’t a train or subway system, so the options for public transferation were either buses or taxi cabs.
My parents rarely hired cab drivers because the cost was so incredibly high, and luckily all of us had a car growing up, however I started riding public buses in high university because it was the only way I could get to an adjacent neighborhood when I didn’t have a driver’s license or a car of my own. But my up-to-date neighborhood largely lacks public transferation, especially in the rural outskirts. Unless you have a car or a motorcycle, you better hope that you can pedal fast on a bike. Calling an Uber driver isn’t always a perfect solution either. While Uber is often cheaper than neighborhood cab services, it’s still by no means cheap, recognizably if you have a limited income. On top of that, you have no method what the indoor air quality is going to be like when you jump into a random Uber driver’s car. Occasionally the air smells clean, however other times there’s a strong musty mold smell that gives me a strong physical reaction in my sinuses plus respiratory system. Uber needs to pay for portable media air cleaners to give to their drivers to maintain better indoor air inside the car for sensitive passengers. I recently bought a portable media air cleaner for my own car plus I was amazed at the immediate improvement that it brought. At least I have fewer flu symptom symptoms when I’m inside my car.