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by yunwal
1149 days ago
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The OP was advocating for banning bikes and bike lanes because they’re dangerous. Cars kill people. Bikes do not. Nothing you’ve said changes that. There will always be shitty, unnecessarily risk-taking people in the world. They exist on bikes, they exist in cars. I don’t think the proportion is significantly different among one population vs another. I’d rather have them on bikes. |
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The point I’m trying to make here is that countering an argument against bikes with “cars kill people, bikes don’t” is oversimplifying the problem much like “ban all the bikes” is oversimplifying the problem.
Neither of these positions moves the conversation forward and both of these positions discard a wide spectrum of complexity.
If we are to take this issue seriously, it involves infrastructure improvements to make cyclists safer, citations against cyclists who are obviously endangering others, and hopefully movement away from the need for cars to begin with.
Focusing on the binary version of this gets us nowhere.