>>>Though, haven't seen any of them on the streets yet. They probably still don't have the habit of going around. Cab is quite cheap now, and I think they may ask for a larger vehicle, and few cab drivers have vans, so maybe that's how. Don't know, really.
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>>I don't get what "still don't have the habit of going around" means. From your post on sidewalks, I guess that is not an option for wheelchair bound folks.... It's a vehicl, get someone else to do your errands for you and be housebound, or nothing.
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>They weren't seen rolling around. I really don't remember people in wheelchairs being a common sight on the streets. And they surely existed, so my guess is they mostly stayed at home, or didn't go far, or had someone help them when going out. The sidewalks still aren't too friendly to anything on wheels, with a lot of corners with rather steep curbstones.
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>I do remember a few wheelchairs of a different model, more like a trike that was hand pedaled, and those went on the street, rather than on the sidewalks.
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>OTOH, the distances are much shorter, and the errands don't have to take you far. And even though the mom'n'pop shops are pretty much dead here (there were a lot of them before we left), they aren't replaced with huge chain shops every few kilometers, but with small local chain shops on the corner. At least in our city, wherever you are, there's a grocery within a few blocks. What I traveled so far doesn't count much because you always visit downtown and can't know the situation at the edges.
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>>One of our problems here is older areas have sidewalks that are maintained, but a lot of newer developments do not. I don't understand it. Kids walking to the bus stop have to walk in the street or in the grass/weeds.
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>In Virginia it's the other way around, the new buildings must have them, but the older ones pass via a grandfather clause, so until they are torn down and something else built, nobody can force them to build them. So you get situations like this (where it covers only Walmart's lot, but not the next one):
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>http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13655457

NIce.

In the UK any urban area will have pavement (sidewalk). In some older areas where the road is very narrow it might be very thin or only on one side of the road.