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As a guy who bikes out of necessity for my finances, it's kinda whack to see people say biking is a rich person's thing.
Yeah. Gas is >$5 a gallon, and bridge tolls are $7, but not being able to afford that is a rich person’s game, I guess.
I'm just thinking of the way ebikes get framed as a luxury good, reserved only for the highest of income earners, when if we had the infrastructure to support them, they could replace countless car that are multiple times as expensive.
The mental gymnastics these ~~people~~ cagers jump through is incredible.
There's been a long running issue about adding bike lanes to Connecticut ave in DC, which has a lot of retail and restaurants, and is also very busy traffic wise. I have seen every bad faith argument imaginable against them: it's bad for workers because less business, it's bad for workers because too much business, it will be bad for DC Metro because people will bike instead of taking the train, it's ableist, it's ageist, etc etc. I think the best one was that cyclists are more likely to die in a traffic collision than people in cars, adding the bike lanes will cause more traffic fatalities.
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