• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Bikes do not contribute to congestion and most places actually experience less congestion when a bike lane is built (cause thats 1 less person that needs to be in a car). I’m so sick of the “we can’t build bike lanes, transit, sidewalks etc because it causes congestion” excuse.

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    6 hours ago

    It’s one thing to push for car dependency, and to push for oil profits. But what boils my blood is the people who dress it up as being about equity.

    • Ooops@feddit.org
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      6 hours ago

      Same as exactly everywhere else: conservatives have universally understood that they don’t have any solutions but don’t need them as culture-war brainrot and unfettered populism works much better anyway. So they now simultaneously fight every bit of progress ever made no matter if it’s in society, technology, infrastructure or whatever…