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Awesome ideas are not often practical
by tonymet 8mo ago
Awesome ideas are not often practical
- ak217 8mo agoOh it's quite practical, many cities have done it. It just requires standing up to a bunch of selfish assholes who would rather pave over every bit of available space so they can drive around really fast in their giant SUVs while pedestrians and cyclists scurry about on the broken pavement of the 5% of the street right of way given to them, and get run over when they don't get out of the way of the SUVs fast enough.
- tonymet 8mo agothis attitude really helps improve cyclists' reputation.
- ak217 8mo agoTo be honest with you I really don't give a shit about my reputation when it comes to this, I care about me and my kids not getting splatted by a speeding SUV when we dare to use the street, because I face this situation daily.
- tonymet 8mo agoYou'll never succeed with this attitude.
- ak217 8mo agoWhere I live, our work has definitely been successful. The cities I bike in have been steadily improving their bike lane and pedestrian networks, and increasingly prioritizing them in plans and projects - though there is a long way to go.
- Mawr 8mo agoNo worries, it's already happening and your resistance to the status quo changing is expected and accounted for. Try to bike to work sometime — it's good for the soul. And your health of course.
- tonymet 8mo agoHow smug of you.
- Mawr 8mo agoWhat attitude do you expect from marginalized groups? Suffragists, slaves? Ring a bell? If you think I'm exaggerating or something, I'm really not. You were born into a world already bulldozed for cars so you literally can't imagine an alternative reality. You're broken — can't see the world for what it is objectively.
- tonymet 8mo agoAre rollerbladers marginalized? Cross country skiers ? It’s a hobby. This isn’t a civil rights movement, and it’s insulting to call cyclists “marginalized” like blacks , women and gays were.