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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wanna REALLY see them get upset? Have police start ticketing riders who exceed the new 20mph speed limits on neighborhood streets and not stopping at all for red lights (this is post-Idaho stop law, where stop signs are yields and red lights are stops).

It’ll be funny hearing them complaining about laws THEY wanted. [/quote]

The bike lobby isn't primarily the bike rider bros; it is the companies that litter the streets with those lime and red bikes and scooters. They stand to make a ton of cash if it is easier to use bikes and they can convince people to actually use their bikes.[/quote]

[b]City Bike etc get paid by the city.  They aren't proftable based on use amd wont ever be.  Their entire model is built on goverment subsidies.[/b]

I don't have a problem with them doing that.  They're a nice recreational amenity.  That's the problem though.  That's all they are and pretending otherwise is foolish.[/quote]

So is metro, the US military and other government services. If everything was profit centered, do you think anyone in rural America would receive USPS service at all?[/quote]

And SO ARE ROADS THAT DRIVERS DRIVE ON. Taxes pay for all of this; suburbs are heavily subsidized by urban areas and if people who live in the cities want to bike two miles to their destination on roads their taxes paid for them drivers who insist on driving in a city because they want a big house ten miles away can slow down and recognize that there are other road users with conflicting priorities to them. [/quote]

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