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Bike lanes cause pollution, so we should open another lane to cars (archive.is)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“To have all of us delayed and sitting in burning fossil fuels so some rich people can ride their bikes across the bridge when they feel like it and make me use my inhaler more often, it sucks.”

Several speakers argued that backed-up traffic from the bike path causes pollution — an argument propounded by business leaders in the Bay Area Council, which pushed the argument in online ads calling for converting the bike lane to reduce pollution. Lisa Klein, a Metropolitan Transportation Commission staffer, said that regional air quality officials have assured transportation planners that’s not the case.

In its ad and email campaign, the Bay Area Council also argued that the bike lane benefited wealthy people while the pollution it caused harmed mostly low-income people and communities of color.

The Bay Area Council includes such famous givers-of-a-shit about low-income people as Amazon, Walmart, BlackRock, and McKinsey.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Gas is >$5 a gallon, and bridge tolls are $7, but not being able to afford that is a rich person’s game, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm just thinking of the way ebikes get framed as a luxury good, reserved only for the highest of income earners, when if we had the infrastructure to support them, they could replace countless car that are multiple times as expensive.