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There is a fucking WAR going on in Chicago 💥🔪. Pro-car residents are trying to remove bike-lanes. They want to defeat the politician who installed them

https://lemmy.world/post/43645735

There is a fucking WAR going on in Chicago 💥🔪. Pro-car residents are trying to remove bike-lanes. They want to defeat the politician who installed them - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Feb 27 at 4:54pmWeb
Show threadWoodScientistFeb 27
I prefer the term “car supremacists.”
Show threadOoopsFeb 27

“Concrete barriers are a safety issue for cars, unlike the soft squishy people on bikes that would be hit instead”

We should probably be impressed that they only say the first part loud for now and we haven’t reached the point yet where terminal car brains openly advocates for killing people in the name of their 4-wheeled metal gods.

Show threadKorhakaFeb 27
There have been some advocating for murder for over a decade in the UK if you look at comments on posts about bikes.
Show threadYiddishMcSquidishMar 1
How do these idiots deal with curbs that are LITERALLY THE FUCKING STANDARD EVERYWHERE?
Show threadXennyFeb 27
The article is all like “if we restrict the cars the other drivers start threatening our lives!” - the drivers
Show threadRicky RigatoniFeb 27
My town added a bike lane to its main downtown toad and made it one lane and that has only IMPROVED traffic flow for everynyan.
Show threadSystemQMar 1
Downtown toad
Show threadRicky RigatoniMar 1
Show threadSwingingTheLampFeb 28
Cyclists should protest by getting together, getting in cars (one each, natch), and driving around the neighborhood. Give ‘em the traffic congestion they crave.
Show threadebolapieFeb 28
“we need to add more lanes”