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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You think poor people don’t bike??  You really do have your head up your rear.[/quote]

You aren’t helping your pro bike lane position.  At all. [/quote]

PP, if you would have supported bike infrastructure, except somebody said something mean to you on an anonymous Internet message board - well, then you probably weren't much of a supporter of bike infrastructure.

The reality is that poor people bike. Bikes are a cheap way for people to get around without having to depend on buses that may run infrequently, or not show up at all, or not run early enough, or not run late enough, or not go where they're going.

If you're interested, you can look up the Monument Street bike lane controversy in Baltimore.

Or you can read this piece, which is by now almost 15 years old but still relevant: https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20049826/how-low-income-cyclists-go-unnoticed/

Or you can just open your eyes and look around. See that person biking on the sidewalk? See that bike locked to a sign? That's not a middle-aged white male on a $10,000 bike. That's a low-income worker commuting to a job.[/quote]

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