https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/wXPjuRq8Rm
Look at all these fake people acting like they are having fun. It is raining and cold out and they a clearly miserable. But the parents are dragging their kids along with them through this indoctrination. Shameful! |
Macintyre's supported the bike lane, you dolt. Their landlord stuck it to them and the tipped wages referendum hurt their profit margins. |
If they were pro-bike lanes, it explains why they are closing. They clearly were bad business people. |
They call it “family biking” but there are at least 5 adults for every child and no adolescents either. LOL. |
then you are the pearl in the sea. Yes, I personally can ride safely on a sidewalk just as you can drive safely on a road. But you and I aren't all people, as clearly there are lots of crashes. Though you don't hear too much about pedestrians getting hurt on sidewalks from cyclists (not that it doesn't happen, but it is rare), you do hear a lot about pedestrians and cyclists getting hurt by cars. |
So it is it indoctrination when a kid is strapped into a car seat and driven for 45 minutes each way to day care or school? |
Is this satire? It reads like satire. |
Rich white people in Ward 3 are like, "Everything is so close. Why don't you just bike everywhere?" Non-rich white people are like, "There's nothing within biking distance. We don't even have a grocery store." |
People make choices to live in walkable/bikeable communities. Others make choices to live in more suburban and isolated communities. Oftentimes, the ones choosing a more urban lifestyle are sacfriciing a yard or the size of the house in exchange for the convenience. There is something for everyone. But...no matter where one lives, the ability to be multi-modal and travel safely should be considered universal. It is the people who chose to live in an auto-centric neighborhood who are the ones who are selfishly opposing bike lanes so their driving and ability to park is easier. |
We might hear about it more - but the discussion typically stops conveniently before issue of who was at-fault comes up. Because in a large majority of the cases the driver of a vehicle injures or kills a pedestrian or cyclist - the pedestrian or cyclist is at-fault. And the data from DC bear that out in black and white. Just because you’re the party who got injured in a crash doesn’t automatically make the other party at-fault or guilty. Cyclists have become masters of spinning this nonsense. |
+1. I have family in southeastern Kentucky. They’re poor AF and the closest thing even resembling a grocery store is 21 miles, two-mountains over, and almost an hour away by car. By bike? That’s theoretically a whole day for a round trip, assuming the average person would struggle pedaling up two mountains of ~1,500 elevation change each. That’s 6,000 feet of climbing in total for a 42 mile trip - basically that’s a stage on the Tour de France. And cyclists here expect everyone to be able to do that. The disconnect is hilarious. |
I'm the other pp who uses my bike to commute/drop off kids and I don't live in W3 and make less than 100k/year. |
Huh? We're talking about commuting within the boundaries of Washington, D.C. The story you are sharing has nothing to do with this discussion |
Bicyclists are almost entirely white and drivers are predominantly black and brown and that is a function of where people can afford to live |
It's always interesting read a post on here that makes an outrageous and unverified claim while accusing others of "spinning . . . nonsense". Anyone who has a more serious interest in this topic can read actual analysis of pedestrian and bike crash data here: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/812502_pedestrian-and-bicyclist-data-analysis-tsf-research-note.pdf and here: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813484 |