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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's kind of insane how much of our transportation resources have been hijacked by a tiny group of Bernie bros[/quote]

Males with no kids benefit - anyone with kids is not using the bike lanes in the am and I never had a job that I could show up sweaty wearing biking clothing makes no sense [/quote]

I (a woman) biked my kids to school regularly for years while en route to my fancy downtown office job.  There was a gym onsite, so I could shower and dress there.[/quote]

+1, at many offices, it's very easy to "show up sweaty wearing biking clothing" and then just shower and change before you go upstairs. Does depend on when you have to be in the office vs. when you have to be at school for dropoff, but this idea of PP's that it's completely impossible for (a) parents or (b) specifically moms to bike to work is silly. You also don't have to bike in "biking clothing," though it is often more comfortable.

(At my kid's elementary school in upper NW, drop-off is very dad-heavy, anyway.)[/quote]

the vast majority of people do NOT have the luxury of a full service gym on-site with shower. Get a grip.

Adding more bike lanes is no different that reducing taxes on the rich. They benefit a very small subset of people.[/quote]

I said "many" offices, but I suspect it's more than you think. I would never have bothered looking into whether my office had a gym/shower if I hadn't been bike-commuting. But it does, as did the midcentury building my company was in until a few years ago, as do all of the office buildings where my wife has worked in the last decade.

It's also possible to bike to work and just change your shirt, especially when it's not 90 degrees, which is what I did in a previous job. (In that job, I made less than $100,000 a year, so biking for work is also not just for rich people. That company's office is now in a building with a shower, I just don't work there anymore. I'd be surprised if anyone there makes over $100,000.)

I'm not trying to argue that biking to work is just as convenient from start to finish as driving, but it's absolutely possible, and a lot of people do it, and just because it doesn't work for you doesn't mean no one else is making it work for them. I promise you many more people benefit from bike lanes than just whaever small subset of people you think.[/quote]

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