I love how the US is like this huge international case study of how not to do it, and every other nation learns from it. But the US continues to be completely oblivious to this and doubles down on all the mistakes it makes.
We have not invented here syndrome around urban planning pretty bad
Why do they hate bicycles so much? I honestly don’t understand. What did bicycles do to them?
Drivers hate cyclists because they’re in the way because they have no bike lanes because drivers hate cyclists because…
Because oil and car companies have spent decades spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying politicians and spreading anti-bike and anti-public transpiration propaganda.
Well I for one am against public transpiration. That would throw the precipitation cycle into chaos!
In the defence of the powers that be, the bicycle industry hasn’t been lining political pockets for a century like the auto industry has. Cervelo has got to look through the cushions and buy an election or two.
Oil lobbying.
I always hesitate to say it because I don’t want to come across as making light of racism and sexism and whatnot, but it feels like a form of bigotry to me.
Classism is a form of bigotry. There are many forms of bigotry.
And bicycles are ridden both by poor workers who can’t afford cars and the elite who don’t need to rush about in cars, so it’s a form of transport that all classes can be told to hate! 🙄
They call it war on cars, but cyclists is the one that havr to fight an uphill battle to make cycling safe, while car driver simply sit on their ass whining and bitching about bike lane and the government will just cave in to them. They have no idea what’s a war are.
So just recently dropped this thing I say regularly that biden was the best president of my lifetime. One guy argued with me and part of the argument was the funding bills were greenwashing. This is about stopping the funding from one of those bills:
Federal funding for bike paths had not long ago seen a significant boost, thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 2021, which created discretionary grant programs such as the Reconnecting Communities pilot program and the Safe Streets and Roads for All program, the LAB explained on its website.
