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NMS-KTG t1_ixd7o33 wrote

Reply to comment by aoc_desantis_2024 in 'Ride For Your Life' Photos - Nov 19, 2022 ride from Bethesda to the Capitol by monkeyuprising

Ah yes. Rich people ride $200 bikes while the working class uses their $20,000 cars. When will we stop catering to the rich!

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tcairlines t1_ixdu9w0 wrote

$200 bike? Where you see $200 bike in that photo????

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N3rdr4g3 t1_ixe8ywe wrote

Change $200 to $2000 and the argument still applies

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MrDickford t1_ixejnj5 wrote

If biking is the cheaper option, why don’t we see people whose primarily constraining factor is money already overwhelmingly choosing to bike instead of drive?

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ehtooh t1_ixesbak wrote

Because it’s not safe to do so. I don’t have a car and I won’t bike because I am terrified of being run over. But this is bigger than wanting bike lanes, this is about wanting our kids to be safe walking to school, and our friends safe biking from it. Why is that so hard to understand?

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MrDickford t1_ixf4ax6 wrote

People sacrifice safety to save money all the time. But for many people, a bike doesn’t do everything they need it to. If you need to go long distances, leave the city, move a family, or carry a load, then you probably need a car, and a bike just becomes something you need to buy in addition to a car.

Very few people, especially on this forum, just don’t understand the importance of keeping pedestrians and bikers safe. But investing in public transportation seems like a much more effective solution. Prescribing bikes and more bike lanes as the blanket transportation solution for everybody makes it sound like you either don’t understand that not everybody’s needs mirror yours, or that you don’t care about those people.

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Appropriate-Ad-4148 t1_ixe1yq8 wrote

Housing analogy:

Housing is expensive!

We better encourage more home sales and bail out everyone with a mortgage(practically a 1:1 correlation with the top 50% of wealth in the US) because renters aren’t real Americans with families!

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aoc_desantis_2024 t1_ixd8mv2 wrote

Ahh yes the famous working class bike route from Bethesda to downtown.

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NightWaddie t1_ixdegr1 wrote

This isn’t a class based issue as much as it’s people saying they are tired of a car dominated culture, I don’t know how you don’t see that

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aoc_desantis_2024 t1_ixdl3rt wrote

Tired of car dominated culture? You are far too online. Normal folks love that a car takes you exactly from point A to point B in air conditioning privately. That's just objectively more comfortable than using a bike or public transit for most trips.

Even these advocates only do so as a hobby. 90%+ I can guarantee have vehicles they use daily.

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NMS-KTG t1_ixdn3wn wrote

They only do so as a hobby because it's unsafe to do so otherwise... which is why they're protesting

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NightWaddie t1_ixdr5n9 wrote

Congrats to you and your “normal folks.” But most of us in D.C actually don’t want to drive in traffic everywhere and would be perfectly happy to walk, bike or take the train if it was safe and reliable. Hence why people are doing movements like this.

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NMS-KTG t1_ixdg5ef wrote

Would you prefer they drive a $30,000 truck?

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