| ▲ | transitorykris 12 hours ago |
| "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." Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion. |
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| ▲ | troelsSteegin 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I don't get it. Aren't most bike lanes on the far right? |
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| ▲ | fwipsy 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | bestouff an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Obviously the far-right hates bike lanes. |
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| ▲ | scoofy 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://theonion.com/congested-values-1819590506/ |
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| ▲ | techjamie 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This logic fails on a couple levels. One, bike lanes are often not wide enough to support another car anyway. Two, Braess's paradox[1] is an effect that's been noticed for as long as we've had cars that adding a lane to a roadway will often show no improvement, and perhaps even add detriment, to a local traffic system. So I guess it's a common sense solution if you don't understand the first thing about roadway design? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox |
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| ▲ | mypalmike 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m getting somewhat sick of Christian Nationalist trolls running the US government. |
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| ▲ | CamperBob2 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | nielsbot 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There are many more non-cult people in the US, but they don't vote enough. As long as the government is captured by Capital, however, it's hard to make the case for them to "vote harder". | |
| ▲ | AlexandrB 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | No idea what you guys are talking about. The Christian faction of the right has waned significantly since the Bush presidency. | | |
| ▲ | jimbokun 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In the “I don’t see how this connects with the teachings of Jesus” sense I agree. In the self labeling as “Christian”, sense not so much. | |
| ▲ | macintux 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The current administration is not remotely shy about proclaiming its interest in a Christian theocracy. | |
| ▲ | BoggleOhYeah 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Given the level of involvement the Heritage Foundation has in the current administration, I think you're absolutely wrong. |
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| ▲ | jimbokun 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Well you absolutely can but the next opportunity isn’t until 2028. | | |
| ▲ | alpha_squared 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | > next opportunity isn’t until 2028 There's an election every year (including special and midterms). The fight is annual and it's completely unfair to believe it's a quadrennial event and lead others to believe the same. Participate in your local elections. It's where all of this starts. The national is mostly noise that bubbles up and out. |
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| ▲ | idontwantthis 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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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| ▲ | aendruk 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just last week in Texas: The driver, identified as 31-year-old Charles Medina, then sped past the couple from behind. Rapp’s boyfriend responded to the maneuver by raising his hands and yelling, at which point Medina slammed his brakes, skidded to a stop and accelerated in reverse. Medina ultimately hit Rapp so forcefully that his “rear windshield was shattered completely”. He also allegedly left skidmarks from having “rapidly accelerated backwards” as well as apparently “steering towards something while backing up”. Emergency responders found Rapp unresponsive and lying face down in the roadway. She was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/boxer-hannah... | | |
| ▲ | actionfromafar an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It’s unfortunately expected behaviour in fundamentalist societies. | |
| ▲ | idontwantthis 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This one 5 years ago - https://www.thedrive.com/news/43060/coal-rolling-teen-that-h... I couldn't find out if he ever got convicted or sentenced to anything. But any cyclist, including myself, can tell you that there are people out there with murder in their hearts who want you to die just for the crime of delaying them by a few seconds. | | |
| ▲ | ndsipa_pomu 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > just for the crime of delaying them by a few seconds Often it's not an actual delay, but just a perception of a delay as the driver then arrives at the next queue a few seconds later which makes no difference to their total journey time. |
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| ▲ | jmclnx 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 we would have if we took Climate Change seriously. |
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| ▲ | maxerickson 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | Gud 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not just walking Biking, too! |
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| ▲ | Freedom2 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | atmavatar 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | No interpretation was made. That's literally a direct quote from the article, which is itself a direct quote from a DOT spokesperson. | |
| ▲ | datadrivenangel 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The actual quotes in the article are more out there than the actual Onion (their print newspaper is great though) | |
| ▲ | danorama 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Please, do explain which parts of the original quoted statement are made in good faith. | |
| ▲ | akerl_ 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What is the good faith interpretation you’d suggest? | |
| ▲ | wtfwhateven 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What? |
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| ▲ | jeffbee 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If NPR was a real news organization, they would never have repeated, broadcast, or printed that statement. It is three dog whistles in a row, referring to various right-wing conspiracy theories about globalist agendas. |
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| ▲ | Jtsummers 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > 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 listeners. | | |
| ▲ | evan_ 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | cosmicgadget 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Seems awfully newsworthy. And using direct quotes makes it difficult to brush aside as "librul media bias" or whatever. | |
| ▲ | pstuart 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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? | | |
| ▲ | macintux 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Question: if the news reports something you don't like, is it fake? One of Trump’s many talents is corrupting language. The phrase “fake news” was originally used to criticize his many outright lies about what was going on in the world during his first run for office, but he managed to change the meaning to “anything that doesn’t show him in the best possible light”. He’s remarkably adept at demagoguery. |
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