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Once again, working class people commute by bicycle more than any other demographic group. Maintaining cars as the dominant mode of transport is incredibly financially oppressive. And, as just explained, building networks for bicycle infrastructure is essential to having mass transit work at all.

Finally, if you're concerned about creating a better bus network, there is plenty of money for that if you reduce the amount spent on subsidizing automobile use which eats up the vast, vast majority of transportation budgets. Your fixation on bike lanes as a problem is based on an irrelevant cultural anxiety, not on any reality. You're like one of those conservatives getting apoplectic about the state spending 10 million spend on the NEA while the military eats up trillions. Your concern is completely misplaced.

i'm afraid you're not making a whole of sense repeating that totem over and over

friend, if you're really interested in learning about this i'll start with this: the netherlands has the most dense and thorough public transportation networks in the world. visit and train or tram station and there and you know what you'll find? a public parking field packed with thousands of bicycles.

that's because it also has the most dense and thorough systems of bicycle infrastructure in the world. this is not a coincidence! in fact, the pattern repeats in every single country with good public transport. that's because public transportation and bicycle infrastructure are completely interdependent and mutually supportive. having one makes the other more viable and vice-versa.

that's because effective mass transport does not deliver you to your exact location, it works on lines and hubs. you need ways for people to disperse to their final destination once they leave the bus or train -- this is called the last mile problem -- and bicycles solve it better than any other type of infrastructure. it's cheap, efficient, cost-effective, and keeps neighborhoods and downtown cores alike healthy and at human scale.

trains and buses without bicycle infrastructure make no sense. it's like building a water main down the center of the street and then neglecting to install pluming into any of the houses. so come on, drop the silly anti-bike thing, it's ridiculous

buddy, again, i don't think you know how public transport works

there's a whole chapter about it in the book the OP cites, it's like they didn't even read it!

in practice, in the us, the majority of bicyclists are working class, maybe don't us children also, women also ride bicycles, so if you want to keep being an idiot, maybe use 'people-children' when you're making weird, inaccurate characterizations also, bike lanes 100% make buses come faster, the number one reason for bus delays is private vehicle traffic also, if you're so worried about improving public transport, maybe look at what uses up 98% of transportation budgets (it's car infra)

the world's dumbest people cite that book as if it is a condemnation of bicycle infrastructure itself

if you think public transport is somehow in opposition to bike lanes, i don't think you understand how public transport works

no, biking is not a one-size-fits all solution, but if you look at the budgeting and building priorities of cities, they often act as if private car ownership is. the reality is that continuing to maintain cities where cars are the default mode of transport is the neoliberal dream, it pushes a huge amount of negative external costs on to every individual while closing off public space and sapping public resources

biking is great under the right circumstances, the goal is to make those circumstances as common, widespread and reliable -- remember a better world is possible!

your whole rant here is seriously misguided and uninformed.

cycling infra is not a concern exclusive to white, upper class, childless people. in many cities, the vast majority of people who bike are working class and poc, and they are also the people put most in danger of vehicle violence and police harassment when there is insufficient infra. because guess what -- cars are expensive to own and maintain and require licensing, insurance, and other forms of surveilled and financialised interactions that bicycling doesn't!

on top of this, your little vignette of a tired warehouse worker not wanting to bike is a super strange and paternalistic composite based on nothing. that aside, the entire existence of the exurbs and the expensive housing crisis in city cores is based on decades of autocentric planning and subsidies (which were bolstered by the exact same weird idpol arguments you're parroting here!) guess whose neighborhoods got torn down to build car infra? which populations suffer disproportionate health issues due to highway exhaust?

it seems your basing your entire critique on what you see happening on twitter, which is not real life whatsoever. there's no such thing as a cool kids club, either get involved or don't, but don't make your petty grievances and surface level understanding get in the way