Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system totally fails them

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Compare and contrast with Japan

It already has a fantastic transportation system in the larger cities, and seniors make use of it, especially in the middle of the day. The governments are very conscious of the aging of their country, so they have added elevators and escalators to their multilevel train stations and more "kneeling" buses. (The trains were always flat-floor trains.)

On a recent trip, I noticed that the area of Tokyo I was staying in, one with a lot of seniors, had added shuttle buses to its already ample supply of transit.

Even in England, riding the bus from Wells to my next destination, I noticed groups of seniors going out on excursions (at that time at least, they could ride local buses for free), groups of three or four men or women going shopping or out to a pub for lunch.

As I grow older, I would never live anyplace I couldn't have access to a good bus line or train.

I've noticed that the vast majority of senior residences are in the car-burbs. That seems incredibly stupid.