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Why don't they use the revenue from the helmet tickets of the privileged, white riders (who clearly have the money to buy a helmet) to provide free helmets to b
by iamleppert 4y ago
Why don't they use the revenue from the helmet tickets of the privileged, white riders (who clearly have the money to buy a helmet) to provide free helmets to brown and black riders? That seems to me like the better solution and would drastically improve equality.
- twiss 4y agoWhy not use it for building better biking infrastructure instead? The entire article is about how that'd have a better ROI.
- crackercrews 4y agoI get the point you're trying to make. But they never actually talk about ROI. Helmets are cheap. Infrastructure is expensive. I would be surprised if infrastructure changes had a higher ROI than helmets. It's just that some people don't want to wear helmets. That's what this was all about.
- twiss 4y agoInfrastructure changes happen anyway. Roads get widened, reorganized, and maintained all the time. It's just a question of what the available space should get allocated to. The Netherlands didn't change their infrastructure overnight. They changed the infrastructure standards instead, and whenever a road needs to be redone, they upgrade it to the new standards. This took ~30-50 years, but had amazing results. Of course it can be done faster if you want, and then it will be more expensive as well. But if you want to do it cheaply, you can absolutely get a very high ROI this way.
- BoorishBears 4y agoI'm black, I wear a $200 helmet. Certain races are disproportionally affected by inequality, but treating my race as equivalent to poverty is pretty damn insulting.