There obviously more work to be done and I love that Chicago is so far ahead of so many cities when it comes to bicycle infrastructure.

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      Yeah and I kind of love it anyway. Since the sale, meter pricing has sky rocketed which discourages driving. Fuck cars!!

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        Discouraging driving is good but when a city can’t close or repurpose roads because of a parking meter contract, it kind of sucks.

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      That’s probably why it’s so expensive. I guess it’s good to know that the loss of revenue is already baked into the cost of the project.

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    I live in small city where the exact opposite applies. The cycleways don’t extend through richer neighbourhoods. The poorer neighbourhoods are plastered with cycleways. But there’s lots of NIMBY people here.

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    Ok that’s great but that’s a weird reason to build bike lanes.

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      Chicago has a long history of segregation in the city. It’s worse than a lot of cities in the US. POC are leaving the city in droves because the city hasn’t well addressed the issues of the past. While I think wording it for pedestrian safety makes a lot of sense, this also makes sense in the context of Chicago

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        This. Chicago is super segregated even in 2023. This may seem like a weird reason to people who haven’t spent time the Chicago, but it’s a real thing.

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      While transit equity is valid, I would prefer if the answers to racism and inequitality was “reparations and the dismantlement of racial hierarchies.”

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    I’m thinking that unless they also add a program to give low income Chicagoans bicycles, we’re going to see a crime wave. Just sayin’

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      The article says they did:

      Earlier in the pandemic, Chicago launched a program to give away 5,000 bikes to eligible Chicago residents by 2026.

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      There are plenty of charities that can do that, if needed because really bikes are cheap on the grand scheme of transportation options. Only the government can add bike lanes, that’s what they need to focus on.

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      The concept of Chicago being super dangerous is a incorrect right wing meme.

      It has half the violent crime rate of Memphis, for example. And that violence is highly concentrated in particular neighborhoods.