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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

The Dark Prince of Donair
@erisianrite.com

Pretty much nobody who complains about bike rider behavior is against better infrastructure! We are against the constantly pushed idea that bc pedestrians usually get injured instead of killed by collisions that we should accept that as a price of a bike rider getting somewhere marginally faster.

Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

no one is talking about bike lanes as needed so that bikes can go faster -- they're needed because they VASTLY REDUCE DEATH