@meganL@cycling wow, I applied to go to UC Davis and thought it was cool because it was the 'bike school'. Reading ur posts it's more like oh, it's warm and flat so people bike, which is not the same as a biking utopia.
I ended up at Santa Cruz. Hilly and cold in comparison.
@alexisdyslexic@cycling It's a mixed bag. Davis is mostly coasting on the genuine cycling activism they had in the '70s and '80s (possibly later, but not a lot recently). That created a lot of infrastructure that survived. There is new infrastructure, but it can be ableist and car-centric.
So it's better cycle infrastructure than most US places, but that's not saying much.
And the culture within Davis and UC Davis is super-ableist, some areas very car-centric and capitalistic. #UCAccessNow
@alexisdyslexic@cycling So my point is not to act as if Davis is the worst - it's not. But I want to show that you don't have to scratch deeply to hit the car-centrism and ableism. Therefore holding it up uncritically as "Platinum Bike-Friendly" does us a great disservice. #UCAccessNow#CarCenrism#Cycling
@meganL@cycling the best in North America is probably Montreal. But Not Just Bike just made a clap back video about how poorly Montreal stand up to European cities. I don't think we have a good infrastructure anywhere in North America.
But I think we're at an inflexion point and a lot is going to be built out soon.
@linjari@cycling Unfortunately, since they purposely chose wood for these, they would just mow them down. In fact, some of them come pre-scored at the bottom with the excuse that police & fire should be able to easily drive through them when needed.
Since they're almost never where they're supposed to be installed, that's not needed.
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