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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are two things going on here: One, there's a lawsuit that appears to make a reasonable request to modify existing bike lanes a little bit so they allow mobility to people with disabilities, and which should guide future bike lane installations to avoid conflict between mobility and multimodal road use. Two, there's a group of DCUM posters who have latched onto that lawsuit to argue that all bike lanes are bad and all people who support them hate people with disabilities.

Seems very easy to build bike lanes that don't cause major problems for people with disabilities, and speaking as someone who bikes to work frequently, I'm all for doing that and found little to object to in the complaint. It is obviously possible to build bike lanes that make reasonable accommodations for people who need them; even the complaint says the plaintiffs are not opposed to bike lanes in concept, just to the specific design of the ones they're suing over.

The leap that some people here are making, to say that this lawsuit proves bike lanes are some kind of menace, is just silly. But it's disappointing to see people who support cycling infrastructure respond to it by bashing the plaintiffs or accusing them of some kind of nefarious motives, instead of just pointing out to the posters here (very few of whom seem to care about disability issues at all except insofar as they can use them to bash bike lanes) that their position is incoherent and reactionary.[/quote]

Bless your heart.[/quote]

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