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Yers. That's if you even bother trying in the first place. Where the fuck are you going to flag them down? Stand outside the building you were in and hope one goes past? Try to wave one down from knee-height by the side of a main road with people twice your height surrounding you? Not bloody likely. It's a bit like buses - they're all kitted out to be wheelchair-friendly but you hardly ever see anyone getting on them with a wheelchair, and it's not because there's hardly anybody in the city who needs a wheelchair, it's because they're still a massive ballache to use even with their fuzzy little headboards and their kneeling step.
I was being slightly facetious in my response to Apollo though, but that's because his question was facetious. Of course I wasn't saying all disabled people are poor, that would be absurd. They are, however, twice as likely to be living in poverty than people without a disability, so they're even less likely to be able to get cabs everywhere than "normal" people are, and "normal" people are priced out of the things themselves. Of course there are people with disabilities who aren't poor, I'm one. But it's not so very long ago that I was one of those disability-linked poverty statistics myself, and it's purely through the whims of chance that's no longer the case.