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I think you would have a different opinion when your property was stolen, your partner assaulted, and your sense of safety destroyed by such behavior. You can't

I think you would have a different opinion when your property was stolen, your partner assaulted, and your sense of safety destroyed by such behavior. You can't promote the use of bikes if your bike is going to be stolen and chopped up the second you take your eye off it. I vote my values too, by the way.

munk-a 4y ago
It really is a hard problem and a hard policy to advance. I'm pro-pedestrianization but can really understand the concerns of car folks in terms of service availability and business health. There have been plenty of times where car restrictions have been done wrong and ended up killing off city centers - but in terms of safety the availability of safe and secure bike storage seems to require an almost autocratic initial effort. Forcing safe storage and monitoring, along with safe bike lanes, to be rolled out so that the demand can grow - it's very hard for demand to grow organically while bike theft and car-bike accidents are so common that they'll discourage usage. Ditto for public transit, when public transit is sparsely utilized it tends to be less safe while as dense public transit will certainly have incidents but the increased ridership leads to increased safety funding and just more witnesses making crime less attractive in terms of expected gain. It is a hard problem even before we get into NIMBYism and other socio-political complications. I definitely disagree with you but I think your comment was quite fair and reasonable.