I actually don’t mind bikes and wouldn’t mind a city that was more bike-friendly. I just think we need to address at least a dozen or so more critical problems before we accommodate their wishes.

Lol, it’d be one thing if you said “there are more POC cyclists than you think,” or “the color of rider depends on the part of the city.” But you went straight to the all-caps VAST. You’re a brave one.

I’m not an expert (not a joke, I’m just guessing here, so could be wrong) but I think the allocations are made in part based on current or future projects. So if there aren’t bike lane projects on the docket, that reduces the appropriation, and frees up money to be sent elsewhere.

Unless they cost zero dollars, I can think of any number of social services that could use that money instead. To say nothing of the fact that not everyone can use a bike lane (need to be able bodied and afford a bike), so it’s really a benefit to the bike crowd, which is mostly white.

Deflect all you want, but there’s no denying that bike lanes are going to be used by able bodied folk, mostly white, and only during warm weather. I mean, is this really what we need to focus our spending on?

Bikes are cool. Bike people are the worst.

Well I am, and let me tell you, we do a great job of it. The bike people especially.

Yeah, you can always do two things at once. The question is, what should we be spending our limited resources on, and who is it benefiting?

Let’s do the first thing, and if there’s money left over, we can talk about the second, much-less-important-to-society thing

I dunno man, white people do a great job of making everything about them

Things cost money. Priority goes to helping everyone, not just the able bodied mostly white people clamoring for bike lanes.

It needs more frequent, versatile, and reliable public transportation. Something we can all use. We aren’t biking our way out of this problem.

For the serial killers, yes. But that won’t work for the random kid who got pissed off and shot someone. And even the best police can’t make evidence or a witness appear out of thin air (well, they can, but that’s a whole other depressing story). So I’m skeptical that more police will actually lead to more arrests, which is why i said at best. I happen to think that reducing the number of guns in hands is a better way to reduce the number of murders.

I’m skeptical that “more policing” is the answer to crime

At best

The good policing you envision isn’t going to prevent murders. At best it’ll make it more likely the murderers are arrested.