• FlashZordon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Tax dollar usage is the main excuse why people in my state have been protesting the rail. I guess sitting in traffic for 2 hours to and from work is preferred.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah. A common argument against bike lanes in my city is that “nobody bikes”, and people don’t understand that nobody bikes because we have to bike alongside their murder boxes.

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          1 year ago

          A very apt analogy you can reply with is this.

          Nobody swims across this river to the other side. Therefore we should NOT throw away money by building a bridge. Because there is no demand.

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          1 year ago

          Also, bikes generally don’t take up a lot of space. A bike lane can be cooking in passenger-miles/hr and look pretty empty compared to urban gridlock in the car lanes.