"Normalized but Marginalized" is also the impression I get from Copenhagen infrastructure: Yes we want you to ride bikes but never forget you're less important than cars when it comes to convenience or safety, you're rubbing elbows with pedestrians while cars spread their crotches across four mostly empty lanes. If cars want to turn, you share, etc. #BikeInfrastructure#ClimateAction#FuckCars#CarsRuinCities, Germany edition
We really need to get past the "#bikeInfrastructure costs money" fallacy and the notion that it involves years of #planning and rebuilding five car lanes to make a too-narrow protected bikeway that connects to nothing. That's just car infrastructure.
(re "We’ve got to get past this “bike infrastructure is only for rich white people”phase...")
Join us at Sunday Parkways this Sunday in Cully! Sign up to volunteer with tabling at 52nd & Alberta, talk to curious people about BikeLoud, carrying kids and stuff on #carReplacement#CargoBikes, #eBikes, #BikeInfrastructure, and how we achieve #Portland's #ClimateAction plan to serve 25% of all trips by bike.
I'm not saying an electric #cargoBike is going to solve every feminist issue in our cities, but it's a heckuva stroller/diaper bag/"sag wagon" for "encumbered travel". Being able to take kids to school or the park without having to park a car and then walk through the gauntlet of crosswalks and whatever, and they can jump out and run to the swings as soon as you get to the park sidewalk, etc. It's so great for kids to learn the neighborhood and mobility by bike.