Advocates of walkable urbanism definitely need to be more clear on how they would provide mobility to the disabled. But at the same time, it makes me deeply tired when people say that advocating walkable urbanism or a car-free lifestyle is intrinsically ableist.
The fact that some disabled people need individual motorized transport does NOT mean that literally everything needs to be built around cars. That is one of those stupid "gotcha" false dichotomies that social media incentivizes but is just death to thought.
Part of the reason people don't mention disability when talking about walkable urbanism is that they're not thinking about it, which is bad and should be called out. But part of it is also that the solution is so obvious: limited car-based transport for those who need it.
I would say that the way to call out that lack of attention would be to literally ask, "What about disabled people?" Not to declare, as I saw someone say, that everyone who admires that European city that eliminated cars is an ableist bigot.
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