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Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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"This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." The government we deserve. Nobody bother thinking coherent thoughts, insults and spurious non sequiturs are policy now.

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Nothing can be done about it, so (shrug) praise the Lord and pass the Shell 93 octane, I guess. Can't fight a hundred-million strong cult.

No idea what you guys are talking about. The Christian faction of the right has waned significantly since the Bush presidency.

Given the level of involvement the Heritage Foundation has in the current administration, I think you're absolutely wrong.

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

#43

"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." Jumpi…

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No interpretation was made. That's literally a direct quote from the article, which is itself a direct quote from a DOT spokesperson.

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The model seems to be Russia, which does not bode well for anyone.

In what way is Russia doing better than China?

Whenever I see Russias ratty old aircraft carrier I kind of feel bad for them.

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." Jumpi…

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Please, do explain which parts of the original quoted statement are made in good faith.

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"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." Jumpi…

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They are a real news organization. Even after losing federal funding they deliver the news without editorial. Perhaps editorial bias but that's inherent in all outlets.

Question: if the news reports something you don't like, is it fake?

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Good grief, this website is utter garbage. Keeps popping up the Support Us popup and crashed the iOS web view.

But one thing that’s interesting with the administration’s approach to so many things is the removal of tools to get information. In the article (which works in brave which suppresses the pop up) they talk about this tool to collect information on how a crash occurred. I get wanting to change priorities. As a bicyclist I can understand if road space is optimized for other uses due to the predominant form of use.

But I think one of the reasons the US is so prosperous is that we have here a reliable and high-quality data collection machine. The less you know about yourselves the worse you can achieve your objectives.

Massive tragedy that data collection fell to ideology. Though the ideology is very funny. It sounds like an angry redditor!

“This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda”

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I’m getting somewhat sick of Christian Nationalist trolls running the US government.

Nothing can be done about it, so (shrug) praise the Lord and pass the Shell 93 octane, I guess. Can't fight a hundred-million strong cult.

Well you absolutely can but the next opportunity isn’t until 2028.

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> If NPR was a real news organization, they would never have repeated, broadcast, or printed that statement. That statement was provided by a DOT spokesperson as the explanation for the changes. As a real news organization, NPR was right to repeat the statements provided by the DOT so that their listeners (and readers) can know what the administration's views are. To do otherwise would be to hide facts from their lis…

if a government spokesperson provided that statement 20 years ago the story would be about the unhinged partisan DOT spokesperson, what maniac hired them, why hasn't the whole office been fired yet, and how a bizarre grievance-based policy ever got out the door in the first place. Now the media gets crazier stuff than this on an hourly basis and they just shrug.

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda." Jumpi…

This kind of rhetoric is actually going to get cyclists killed. There are enough drivers on the road already who intentionally try to scare cyclists. This will push some of them over the hill to murder someone with their pickup truck.
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