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There is a difference in being against bike lanes and calling them DEI. Only one of them is totally nuts

• foco_tubi 3mo ago
  I mean, the positive effects of road diets and bike lanes generally are pretty well settled, as the US DOT website used to claim.
• jimbokun 3mo ago
  Have you read some of the DSA’s policies?
  • foco_tubi 3mo ago
    Which ones are you referring to?
• ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago
  To be fair, bike lanes and cycling are inclusive and a surprisingly effective way to empower underclasses. When the safety bicycle was invented, it greatly empowered women who previously were more or less house-bound to be able to travel distances. This has been seen across several different cultures where the introduction of cycles leads to the empowerment of women. Here's a good quote from Susan B Anthony (famous Suffragette): "Let me tell you what I think of the bicycle. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can't get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."