Show threadGemma β­οΈπŸ”°πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ 🎐Jun 11, 2024
@geographile #JustLikeACar was a #propaganda #marketing campaign in the 1970s and possibly longer (1960s? 1980s?), that attempted to impress upon children and their parents that #bicycles should follow all #traffic rules designed for #MotorVehicles. Like #HelmetLaws, this was ostensibly for #safety reasons, but the actual effect was to cement the position of #cars as the dominant users of public #roads and #streets, placing the impetus on cyclists to cede primacy of place to cars.
Gemma β­οΈπŸ”°πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ 🎐Jun 10, 2024

The idea that #bicycles should require licenses, registration, and/or insurance is a #CarCentric idea that carries over from the #propaganda of the 1970s that tried to convince people of #JustLikeACar. Do you remember those stickers they forced on kids in the 1970s?

Bicycles present a minuscule danger to #pedestrian and #disability access. #MotorVehicles, by contrast, present a grave threat to everyone else. 7,522 pedestrians and 1,105 cyclists were killed by cars in the US in 2022.