People who don't understand that better bike infrastructure means less congestion get on my nerves. It has to be willful ignorance at this point, right? There's probably a great overlap with people who refuse to believe in induced demand.
It has to be willful ignorance at this point, right?
The author is a right-wing turd contrarian. The NYT loves such people to death. He even wrote a book where he complained and ranted against the civil rights movement because of course he did.
Christopher Caldwell (journalist)
In 2020 he published The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, in which he argues that the civil rights movement has had significant unintended consequences: "Just half a decade into the civil rights revolution, America had something it had never had at the federal level, something the overwhelming majority of its citizens would never have approved: an explicit system of racial preference. Plainly the civil rights acts had wrought a change in the country's constitutional culture." Caldwell writes that the Civil Rights Act 1964 was "not just a major new element in the Constitution," but "a rival constitution, with which the original one was frequently incompatible."
Gotta platform dissenting voices. Which is why they have a communist columnist too
And on the panel representing the left wing please welcome Bert Stephens
The “bike riding elite” is a real group of people but it’s like 15 guys that live in the most expensive part of San Francisco. They aren’t in DC.
Also if you refer to DC as just “Washington” in your writing I fucking hate you and you shouldn’t be a journalist, no one refers to it that way, Washington is a different thing, call it DC like a normal person. “The residential neighborhoods of Washington” bro how many cyclists could possibly be bothering you in Spokane? Wait “east coast city”? Oh you meant a completely different place from Washington.
That shouldn’t even be a question, that’s like, the easy compromise option where you don’t even have to actually fix any of the societal ills caused by slavery.
Fun fact: Washington (the state) was supposed to be named Columbia but they didn't want to mix it up with the District of Columbia so they changed the name
It's particularly silly when the next words are "and corporate e-businesses" because it sounds like he's saying that the gig delivery workers are the all powerful elite.
shocked pikachu I feel like there’s been a fairly marked decline in the integrity of NYT over the past few years
Oh for sure, but they’re definitely removing the mask about it now.
Trump made them believe that they were out of touch (which they were), but instead of doing any sort of introspection, they decided that it meant they had to get more right wing and thus began to hunt for the same type of right wing freaks as the National Review. Coincidentally, those people all hated Trump, but agreed with him on every piece of policy so you ended up with a bunch of right wingers who were even more out of touch than the pre-trump team.
shocked pikachu
Allow me to get that for you comrade
I used to bike up to 4 hours a day like some sort of Boomer parable because the buses sucked that much for certain routes and Uber wasn't a thing. Crazy to think of the reputation biking has with the reactionary crowds.
Hey cool I'm an elite cyclist now. I'm gonna sign up for the tour de France!
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