[transitorykris]

"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.

[scoofy]

https://theonion.com/congested-values-1819590506/

[techjamie]

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

[cosmicgadget]

They understand it, they're just in the middle of a culture war.

[scoofy]

https://theonion.com/congested-values-1819590506/

[Gud]

They don't understand it.

[troelsSteegin]

I don't get it. Aren't most bike lanes on the far right?

[fwipsy]

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]

Obviously the far-right hates bike lanes.

[idontwantthis]

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.

[aendruk]

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...

[idontwantthis]

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]

> 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.

[actionfromafar]

It’s unfortunately expected behaviour in fundamentalist societies.

[mypalmike]

I’m getting somewhat sick of Christian Nationalist trolls running the US government.

[CamperBob2]

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]

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]

No idea what you guys are talking about. The Christian faction of the right has waned significantly since the Bush presidency.

[jimbokun]

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]

The current administration is not remotely shy about proclaiming its interest in a Christian theocracy.

[BoggleOhYeah]

Given the level of involvement the Heritage Foundation has in the current administration, I think you're absolutely wrong.

[jimbokun]

Well you absolutely can but the next opportunity isn’t until 2028.

[alpha_squared]

> 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.

[jmclnx]

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.

[maxerickson]

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]

Not just walking

Biking, too!