• Erk@cdda.social
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. A common argument against bike lanes in my city is that “nobody bikes”, and people don’t understand that nobody bikes because we have to bike alongside their murder boxes.

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      1 year ago

      Also, bikes generally don’t take up a lot of space. A bike lane can be cooking in passenger-miles/hr and look pretty empty compared to urban gridlock in the car lanes.

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      1 year ago

      A very apt analogy you can reply with is this.

      Nobody swims across this river to the other side. Therefore we should NOT throw away money by building a bridge. Because there is no demand.