How are bikes even DEI? Riding a bike is ableist and exclusionary. In order to ride a bike, a person must have two reasonably strong legs (or arms, in the case of a handcycle) and to go any great distance, the rider needs to be in pretty good shape.
I am not saying we should not have bike lanes, since they provide an additional, clean and healthy mode of transportation, but I just don’t see them as DEI.
i’m disabled as fuck. i use a tadpole etrike (that cost way less than any car i’ve ever bought) as my primary means of transport for anywhere within 20 miles. if i want, it’s just my thumb exercising. my county has very good infrastructure tho. it’s not as exclusionary as you’d think.
edit: my bike is on a rack while i get a new inner tube, otherwise i’d take a better photo: here’s Sweet Marie with 60ish pounds of kitty litter in the back. probably a year ago? i’ve added two mirrors and rotated the basket.
Bikes cost way less to buy and maintain then than cars, therefore economically disadvantaged people can more likely afford them compared to cars. Building cycling infrastructure is unironically DEI because it promotes Diversity, Equality and Inclusion of road users who otherwise wouldn’t be able to use the road due to systemic injustices.
How are bikes even DEI? Riding a bike is ableist and exclusionary. In order to ride a bike, a person must have two reasonably strong legs (or arms, in the case of a handcycle) and to go any great distance, the rider needs to be in pretty good shape.
I am not saying we should not have bike lanes, since they provide an additional, clean and healthy mode of transportation, but I just don’t see them as DEI.
Easy, “DEI” means “some stuff that changes the status quo and makes my life 0.0001% different sometimes”
Words lose all meaning when held by a bigot
Using DEI as a negative adverb is just openly admitting being a fascist.
So you want uniformity, inequality and exclusion?
It’s like being against antifascism.
because poor people or non-whites might use them to travel outside of their own neighborhoods and into the domain of white folk with more money.
Don’t most bike lanes also allow things like Mobility scooters on them for people with disabilities?
It’s DEI because “everyone I know drives a car”
i’m disabled as fuck. i use a tadpole etrike (that cost way less than any car i’ve ever bought) as my primary means of transport for anywhere within 20 miles. if i want, it’s just my thumb exercising. my county has very good infrastructure tho. it’s not as exclusionary as you’d think.
edit: my bike is on a rack while i get a new inner tube, otherwise i’d take a better photo: here’s Sweet Marie with 60ish pounds of kitty litter in the back. probably a year ago? i’ve added two mirrors and rotated the basket.
Bikes cost way less to buy and maintain then than cars, therefore economically disadvantaged people can more likely afford them compared to cars. Building cycling infrastructure is unironically DEI because it promotes Diversity, Equality and Inclusion of road users who otherwise wouldn’t be able to use the road due to systemic injustices.