I don't get it. Aren't most bike lanes on the far right?

This kind of rhetoric is actually going to get cyclists killed. There are enough drivers on the road already who intentionally try to scare cyclists. This will push some of them over the hill to murder someone with their pickup truck.

Crazy, nothing like spending $ to eliminate something you can just let sit and ignore :)

Well the rate were this world is going with Climate Change, in 50 to 100 years the only method of transportation will be walking. That is after what could be called "the migration wars".

Getting out of fossil fuels should have started 30+ years ago. But people would rather have their children, grandchildren suffer far more then we would have if we took Climate Change seriously.

I’m getting somewhat sick of Christian Nationalist trolls running the US government.

If NPR was a real news organization, they would never have repeated, broadcast, or printed that statement. It is three dog whistles in a row, referring to various right-wing conspiracy theories about globalist agendas.

Is there any reason why we can't apply the HN guidelines to this statement? What happened to using good faith interpretations? No doubt the moderators would advise us to do so in real life as well.

That's one of the many problems I have with the current regime: they can't say anything without framing it as an opposition to some exaggerated bogeyman. I get it, politics is about messaging. But can't these fools, for once, rise above it and just do something without taking a jab?

If only the most heavily armed civilian population on the planet had some way to deal with a tyrannical government they didn't like? Wouldn't that be good? Like some sort of guaranteed political liquidity built into their nations foundational documents? Like some sort of signpost about what to do when this exact shit happens? That they spent decades lecturing the rest of the world about? Wouldn't that be great. Too bad that doesn't exist.

There is a difference in being against bike lanes and calling them DEI.

Only one of them is totally nuts

A big part of the issue is that federal funding drives probably the majority of significant projects at all levels. We have a completely broken system where every project is a targeted towards winning a grant as much as if not more than the actual local need.

Milwaukee WI has had several (awarded!) street reconstruction grants killed by this admin because they included bike lanes. They weren't bike lane _projects_, they are to primarily to rebuild crumbling unsafe streets, but they included bike lanes so the Fed's rescinded the grants and now most of the projects are dead. There's no local money to do it without the grants.

The real fix for this is to fix the stupid system we have, but for now it's what we're stuck with and this has a real impact you can't overcome locally.

Yep, I'm perfectly content to use the full lane if there's not another option. And that doesn't mean squeezing into the shoulder. No, that means riding left of center to prevent assholes from passing unsafely on my left.

The funniest thing is that tactical use of bike lanes, neighborhood greenways, etc, actually serves to funnel cyclists into specific protected routes such that the majority of other roads have fewer cyclists utilizing them. From my home in Seattle, I can ride several miles to work on roads that were already low traffic volume, but which are faster because cyclists get priority, and cars get diverted away. Before this existed, I just used the main roads that cars did, because it was faster.

Like, if you hate bicycles, you should love bicycle infrastructure. It's better for everyone.

I think disliking cyclists is the core position for these people. They don’t want cyclists in the road and they don’t want to pay for infrastructure for cyclists, like bike lanes.

Some people despise drug users on their streets but oppose safe injection (a.k.a. overdose prevention) sites, which would move the drug users indoors.

It's often an act of power, like a mob. It's the corruption of power made viceral.

> I've given up hope on transportation in the USA. It certainly won't be fixed within my lifetime.

Exactly the response your enemies planned. Act aggressive enough and the other side will give in. You're their best friend when you do it and every time you post it.

It's just a way to keep the culture war hot. They need people on Reddit mad, the media questioning what a DEI Bike Lane is and ridiculing, etc. The actual policy they've implemented, excluding the border, has so far been an abject disaster and even their own base is unhappy. "DEI Bike Lanes" is a way to throw their voters some red meat while stirring the pot.

In a nearby suburban town, the GOP Chair forced a referendum on a road project.

New York has a complete streets program where bike lanes and pedestrian friendly crossings are included in most projects. Iirc 4-5 people have died crossing this road.

The call to action was that “those people” would use the bike lanes to leave the city, connect to the Democrat bike trail and rape, murder and rob the townsfolk.

Old fearful white people are terrified of this stuff.

The model seems to be Russia, which does not bode well for anyone.

It's 2026.