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9throwawayDERP t1_ixdfh3h wrote

Reply to comment by aoc_desantis_2024 in 'Ride For Your Life' Photos - Nov 19, 2022 ride from Bethesda to the Capitol by monkeyuprising

yeah, let us be ok with a mother of two being killed on her way home after they were evacuated from kiev.

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aoc_desantis_2024 t1_ixdlufp wrote

200 people of color gunned down last year. None of these people care about that do they. Lets tell their stories.

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crabmusic t1_ixdy7ef wrote

This might blow your mind, but it’s possible to care about multiple causes at once 🤯

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NorseTikiBar t1_ixeumd8 wrote

Well, why don't you start? It would certainly be a nice change of pace from your other topic submissions, which are apparently exclusively testing if you've said something offensive enough to be shadow-banned.

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Mjt8 t1_ixdlv5b wrote

You’re making a straw man. Nobody is saying they’re morally “ok” with it. It’s a question of what the city can/should do about it.

Governments can sometimes solve systemic issues but they’re not well suited for preventing individual wrongs.

Should the city grind to a halt to totally redo its infrastructure, spending half its revenue fixing 5 annual deaths, and hundreds of thousands of commuters? That doesn’t seem like good policy.

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9throwawayDERP t1_ixdokjp wrote

uh, in ward 3 and Bethesda (where 90% of this bike ride was), car crashes are 5 times more likely to kill residents than homicides. i'm confused, there is pretty much nothing else that is dangerous in that part of town. cars are the only danger to pedestrians or residents.

as for infrastructure, a bit of paint and plastic bollards are nothing for a city that wastes millions or corruption.

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Appropriate-Ad-4148 t1_ixe2d0a wrote

World class cities who have done “shining examples” of every fix you could be talking about don’t “grind to a halt.”

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Mjt8 t1_ixg39d8 wrote

Lol, and you think it just takes a snap if the fingers to change the city into Barcelona?

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Appropriate-Ad-4148 t1_ixgx985 wrote

I have seen a lot of plans and bid on road projects in DC with dedicated bike lanes.

Bike infrastructure isn't' expensive. The real issue is political and industry will.

From the top to the bottom, American planners, owners, architects, and contractors tend to be people who have never left the suburbs in their life.

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Mjt8 t1_ixg43r5 wrote

Selective and misleading stat. A whopping three bicyclists were killed by cars in DC in 2021.

Also, the lady hit was in a bike lane. The whole issue here is that paint and plaster doesn’t fix the issue. You need well-engineered bike infrastructure like you see in Europe, but it would be exorbitantly expensive and disruptive to remake the city’s transportation landscape at this point.

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