Submitted by Maxcactus t3_zzqvf5 in washingtondc
Suburbs-suck t1_j2ew4w7 wrote
Reply to comment by overnighttoast in Opinion | D.C. needs more bike lanes, and fast by Maxcactus
There’s is absolutely no evidence to suggest that creating bike lanes results in the displacement of brown and black people. This is just the standard concern trolling that people find annoying.
The people who are advocating for better public transportation, bike lanes, and walkability are advocating for better accessibility for everyone, not just the city center. Countries like the Netherlands demonstrate how this works.
Furthermore, with your last paragraph, we have arrived at the standard talking points about gram gram, families having to make giant shopping trips. The first and most obvious rebuttal is that the overwhelming majority of drivers aren’t on the road for those reasons, they are on the road being they just kinda feel like it.
There are a number of great studies that I can link that delve specifically into why people actually get into their cars, which I can link if you are interested.
Finally, pretty much every city that has banned cars in major parts of their city has built in exceptions for people making deliveries, moving, emergency vehicles, etc so in the rare case you are actually using your vehicle, you will be able to do so without having a bunch of other people slowing you down with their pointless car trips.
It also goes without saying that investment public transportation, bike lanes, and walkability makes those options a faster and more efficient than sitting in traffic for an hour.
P.S There is a certain irony of someone who is defending Americas car obsession calling other people “angry, loud, and entitled”.
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