Cyclist injuries dropped by half after “hated” cycle lane installed, but mayor still claims scrapped lane largely used as “bike run” for drug dealers to “get through traffic"

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As opposed to the road, because nobody has ever dealt in or from their car.

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  • scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Criminals are famously environmentally conscious, and never have any spare cash for a pricy car as a mode of transport. Of course.

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• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well that’s a new one…

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• pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m having trouble getting at the real issue for them. Obviously this is a lie, but what’s the truth? Do they hate seeing bicycles run red lights and want to punish them collectively for it (which is at least a human motivation), is it that they just want parking spaces and traffic lanes open for voter-pandering purposes, or is some kind of schizoid aesthetic rejection where they just want bike-riding sissies to stop being a thing?

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oil and petrol companies are some of the richest and most politically connected industries in the world. Each person who rides a bike is a person who does not spend money on fueling a car.

    I just assume that Exxon/BP/et al have thrown blanket bribes at every politician in every country to be generally against bike lanes for whatever reason they can pull out of their ass, so long as they don’t come right out and say “BP has paid me directly to decry bike lanes”.

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• Luouth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bollocks. If that was the reason, they’d be on time

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Knuckledraggers

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait till he hears how often cars are used for crime

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