Being a flaneur with mobility impairments?

[rydra_wong]

So, yeah.

I am recovering slowly from a Lisfranc injury. I am now allowed to walk (in rigid-soled shoes), but it's slow, tiring, and tends to make my foot ache; I have very very limited spoons for walking in a day.

Since I could previously walk for hours on end, this is a major blow. I can't stroll or absently wander anywhere any more. If I ever can again, it will be a fair while from now.

Anyone adapting flaneur-y to deal with mobility impairments? Flaneurs using public transport? Tip, advice, suggestions or constraints?

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[kaberett]

One of the things I do is find people or places I can borrow powered transport from - power-assist or entirely-powered wheelchairs - in Cambridge there's a shopmobility scheme I can use to access that (when my own chairs aren't working/up to the job in mind).

Public transport is the other way I see to work around this (and I'm intending to use it as a way to (a) get to know London and (b) get over my fear of London buses, when I move).

Those are my immediate thoughts. More of them some not-2am, maybe.

[rydra_wong]

Tangential, but possibly relevant for when you move to London --

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