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Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

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Great, more ammunition for bad faith arguments from all sides. Unfortunately there's a healthy subset of the Democratic party which is also against road infrastructure improvements like bike lanes and traffic calming. Car brain is an affliction which does not discriminate.

There is a difference in being against bike lanes and calling them DEI.

Only one of them is totally nuts

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#32

"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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

#34

"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.

That's one of the many problems I have with the current regime: they can't say anything without framing it as an opposition to some exaggerated bogeyman. I get it, politics is about messaging. But can't these fools, for once, rise above it and just do something without taking a jab?

The worrying thing is that many supporters, and, I’ve come to believe more and more, many of the leaders and upper echelons of organizations on the right actually believe the exaggerated rhetoric is the truth.

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#36

The world desperately needs less "Murica". It needs the U.S. to be weaker, poorer, less powerful and less influential. And both Trump and Xi-Jiping are delivering just that, thanks God.

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

In what way is Russia doing better than China?

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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The actual quotes in the article are more out there than the actual Onion (their print newspaper is great though)

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

#38

"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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What is the good faith interpretation you’d suggest?

Re: US DOT deleting bike lane references

#39

"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…

I don't get it. Aren't most bike lanes on the far right?

In some places in Europe they're on the far left. I know Trump has a bit of a grudge against Europe, maybe that's what this is about.

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…

Crazy, nothing like spending $ to eliminate something you can just let sit and ignore :) Well the rate were this world is going with Climate Change, in 50 to 100 years the only method of transportation will be walking. That is after what could be called "the migration wars". Getting out of fossil fuels should have started 30+ years ago. But people would rather have their children, grandchildren suffer far more then w…

It's not just a sit and ignore thing, this will hit design guidelines that factor into future project funding.

For example, a few years ago they replaced the bridge over a river just outside of town, adding a bike/pedestrian bridge on the side. This connects a county campground to town without requiring riding on the narrow bridge shoulder. Angry people oppose it because they think it's a waste.

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