Street safety and bike lanes are not a culture war. Infrastructure prevents traffic deaths, boosts economies, and secures freedom.

if you don’t wanna read through this garbage, understandably, the obvious problem according to the autor who has never met another republican who is interested in safter streets is that the darn democracts keep using woke words and not like that this idiot and his ilk have a conception of street planning that is entirely solipsistic

  • BioWarfarePosadist [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    25 days ago

    How we frame the issue matters. The Left loses the Right as soon as bike lanes are tied into identity politics. Multimodal equity is simply “freedom of movement” to a Republican. But when Republicans talk about freedom, the progressives hear privilege. Aren’t the Left and the Right essentially saying the same thing?

    Except even if the left had framed bike lanes as “Freedom of Movement” the right would have still forced Identity politics into it. People who ride bikes are seen as nuisance on the road to reactionaries. I don’t know how often I heard jokes from someone I was riding with about how hitting a Bicycle would be “20 points” or something similar.

    If the problem I had with the the right was their insistence that we name things terribly, I would be an (actual) centrist! I would be okay with calling bike lanes “Trump lanes” if it meant we actually got good bicycle infrastructure.