Suggesting people should bike isn't ableist, or, at least, is no more ableist than suggesting people should drive.

Thank you for listening to this PSA.

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for sharing.

    When they re-did Washington Ave in Philadelphia they didn't even get to the "bikes are abelist" stage of discourse. We got stuck on :frothingfash: business owners losing the ability to park their cars on the sidewalk or use a travel lane to double park.

    Although there was some astro turf groups making rumblings about how it's racist to create bike lanes because that's gentrification and all gentrification is racist, but I think most of it was just being done to distract from the businesses on west broad that didn't want anything to change.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I once had the owner of a dive bar at a community meeting say he'd have to close his location if the on street parking was removed because then his guests wouldn't come lol

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          idk i've heard of business going out because of road construction, if there's a better dive bar closer to wherever the parking or transit is that could be legit enough to worry about.

          fuck (small) business owners though.

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The parking spaces are stil there btw so I'm guessing this is the first actual dril-tweet-based policy decision