US DOT deleting bike lane references

"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion.

"This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

The government we deserve.

Nobody bother thinking coherent thoughts, insults and spurious non sequiturs are policy now.

How do children get around? They bicycle. For a party claiming to be pro-life, pro-family, pro-child, they don’t act like it.

It's pretty clear that from the other side of the border that the man in charge is literally acting like an 80 year old 4chan b troll.

He's just trying to get under everyone's skin and it's working.

Look at those crowds of bikers... ICE protesters... no king protesters...

He's a showman and he loves it.

Stop giving him airtime.

So what if federal funding doesn't recognize bike lanes or whatever this is about?

Vote in competent city Councillors that will get bike lanes prioritized in your city if that's what you care about.

Great, more ammunition for bad faith arguments from all sides.

Unfortunately there's a healthy subset of the Democratic party which is also against road infrastructure improvements like bike lanes and traffic calming. Car brain is an affliction which does not discriminate.

“DEI bike lanes” heh, despite cycling being over represented by middle aged white guys.

Good grief, this website is utter garbage. Keeps popping up the Support Us popup and crashed the iOS web view.

But one thing that’s interesting with the administration’s approach to so many things is the removal of tools to get information. In the article (which works in brave which suppresses the pop up) they talk about this tool to collect information on how a crash occurred. I get wanting to change priorities. As a bicyclist I can understand if road space is optimized for other uses due to the predominant form of use.

But I think one of the reasons the US is so prosperous is that we have here a reliable and high-quality data collection machine. The less you know about yourselves the worse you can achieve your objectives.

Massive tragedy that data collection fell to ideology. Though the ideology is very funny. It sounds like an angry redditor!

“This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda”

I have friends who despise cyclists but oppose bike lanes. Bike lanes would take cyclists out of your lane and into their own lane. Plus if more people start cycling because there's infrastructure, that's less car traffic in the way of your truck! It just seems like a win-win for everybody. I've given up hope on transportation in the USA. It certainly won't be fixed within my lifetime.

What's a "DEI bike lane"? Like woke, DEI has lost all meaning at the political level of discourse. It's just whatever the current regime dislikes.

People who dislike this situation need to stop taking the Trump administration's (and allies') statements at face value, like David Harkey does in the article, and stop calling them crazy. Either way, they are playing you and distracting you, and you are inadvertently acting as their messengers.

Using the universal analytical tool cui bono (more powerful than an LLM) and their own explicit words, there's a consistent, non-crazy strategy: Support the fossil fuel industry in every way possible (which appeals to some people; I'm not writing a critique; you should understand this.):

  * Destroy or acquire national competitors: Venezuala, Iran,
    even Nigeria

  * Buy off domestic competitors: using tax dollars to bribe
    renewable energy developments to stop

  * A million other policy and political actions, major and
    and minor; even opposing bike lanes.

Regarding 'crazy', it's a form of aggression - demonstrating there is no length to which they won't go, to intimidate the other side into backing down. It's been the American neo-right rhetorical tactic going back decades - be aggressive, and if that doesn't work, be more aggressive. Because nobody else has figured out this very basic tactic (used by even by animals), people keep backing down and the tactic keeps working. You see people every day saying they are hopeless, tired, resigned, etc. Why would the neo-right stop - this is working amazingly well!

(If you doubt it, see if my hypothesis predicts future events.)

The world desperately needs less "Murica". It needs the U.S. to be weaker, poorer, less powerful and less influential.

And both Trump and Xi-Jiping are delivering just that, thanks God.

For a specific critique,

> One of the safety tools that has been taken down is known as the Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool, or PBCAT. As of Thursday, a link to the page that formerly hosted the tool on the FHWA website was dead.

Was it actually being used? Is there an alternative/better data source? Is it the only one?

https://catsip.berkeley.edu/resources/crash-data/crash-data-...

Lists 7 federal reporting methods. Why aren't these sufficient? Why was this one special? Why are there so many!?

Who knows what the actual story is behind this, but it won't be found here!

I'm not sure what changed at NPR, but there seems to be a heavy lean towards emotion now rather than depth. In the past, when I've looking into these sort of framings, they often give a completely different perspective that could have been reported.