What's a "DEI bike lane"? Like woke, DEI has lost all meaning at the political level of discourse. It's just whatever the current regime dislikes.

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Spooky23 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In a nearby suburban town, the GOP Chair forced a referendum on a road project.

New York has a complete streets program where bike lanes and pedestrian friendly crossings are included in most projects. Iirc 4-5 people have died crossing this road.

The call to action was that “those people” would use the bike lanes to leave the city, connect to the Democrat bike trail and rape, murder and rob the townsfolk.

Old fearful white people are terrified of this stuff.

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foco_tubi 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yep. Beverly Hills and Bel Air used the same argument to rally against new subway development near UCLA.

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klaff 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So much racism.

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mothballed 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think there's a good faith possibility here that the taxpayers just don't see themselves biking to "the hood" rather than some sinister plan against black people. I mean I wouldn't vote for a bike route to the white trash trailer park, not because I hate them but because there is no reason for me to bike there whereas I might bike to a nice gentrified district for some drinks.

I would reframe most things more in terms of "what will I gain" to see how voters to vote, and new opportunities or bridges to bike to the hood gains them basically nothing.

	▲	maxerickson 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Do you think there is any way to convince you to value a broader community of people?
	▲	Spooky23 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It’s actually a super popular bike route as it’s a 20 minute path to the central business district downtown. And again, 4-5 people have lost their lives in as many years. In this case most of the hubbub was really about a pedestrian island that would block left turns to a business the guy was friends with. The woke people were out to get them for some reason, etc. The racist dog whistle was very deliberate and targeted at Nextdoor. The messaging in more mainstream outlets was about lane width reductions causing a traffic nightmare. It was almost taken from Blazing Saddles.

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brentm 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's just a way to keep the culture war hot. They need people on Reddit mad, the media questioning what a DEI Bike Lane is and ridiculing, etc. The actual policy they've implemented, excluding the border, has so far been an abject disaster and even their own base is unhappy. "DEI Bike Lanes" is a way to throw their voters some red meat while stirring the pot.

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f17428d27584 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Making things better is Progressive, and Progressive is woke, and woke is DEI. So to fight back against DEI find the things that make peoples’ lives better (like bike lanes) and destroy them. Just tear them up, and you’ve won the culture war and saved America.

This is the official GOP policy, the best of what the GOP has to offer. Fight friends, betray allies, threaten your neighbors, drop bombs, smash bike lanes.

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foco_tubi 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not that there's any credence to the idea, but many residents of low-income neighborhoods in urban areas see bike lanes as a dinner bell for gentrification. Never mind that a ton of bicycle commuters in urban areas are from low-income neighborhoods themselves...

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jimbokun 11 hours ago | parent [-]

I will never understand the fight against “gentrification”. You want property values in your neighborhood to go DOWN?

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hakfoo 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Property values going up is only appealing if you own property.

For renters, it means they're going to try to increase rents.

For everyone, it presents a pressure on favourite local businesses-- higher costs, and an influx of well-bankrolled outside competitors.

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foco_tubi 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are a myriad of sources available to help you understand.

How to Kill a City is a good one.

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cucumber3732842 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Value of an illiquid asset doesn't help renters who don't own that asset or residents who aren't in a position to liquidate.

Furthermore, the absolute last thing most of these communities need is an influx of people who have fewer big problems in their jurisdiction because those people always go right to work turning the screws of government on the poors and existing residents.

I'm not saying vote against change at every turn, but given the choice between heavy industry and rich people I'm taking the heavy industry every damn time.

	▲	jimbokun 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So White Flight was a good thing?

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actionfromafar 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't forget the children, more milk and less vaccines.

	▲	klaff 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		raw milk, unpasteurized, right?

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quantified 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Real Republicans do not bicycle. Plain and simple.