Moving the poor to the suburbs was one of the intended consequences of cleaning up the cities where now only affluent white people own bikes. I'm not joking. C

Moving the poor to the suburbs was one of the intended consequences of cleaning up the cities where now only affluent white people own bikes. I'm not joking. Cities tore down their tenement housing "projects" because of the rampant amounts of crime, and the residents went to the suburbs to live in Section 8 private housing. It's one of the reasons (there were many) that violent crime decreased so sharply beginning in the 1990s: the criminals were more spread out, diffusing much of the network effect.