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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When we prioritize cycling over buses and trains, all we’re doing is supporting upper middle class office workers and work-from-home recreational cyclists.

Eh? How?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The people that can actually bike around on the regular or aren't already physically exhausted at the end of their work day.

The people that bike do it by choice because they can and they want to. Pushing more bikes in place of trains or buses would hurt the people who can't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's not my experience at all, working in restaurants where basically all my colleagues cycle to work, and in fact where I come from, a bike is often seen as a sign that you just can't afford a car (although simultaneously as a recreational thing like you've mentioned).