Who would ride a bicycle when classic pimpmobiles are the rage.
Posted on 04/28/2023 2:28:08 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Why don’t more people of color ride bikes? There is no singular reason; however, safety is often cited as a primary concern. In communities of color with a high concentration of low to middle-income residents, the lack of cycling infrastructure elements, such as bike trails, bike lanes, or even shoulders, make cycling unsafe and impractical.
“The lower a metro area’s median household income, the more dangerous it’s streets are likely to be for people walking,” according to a Smart Growth America Dangerous by Design 2021 report. “This is unsurprising, given low-income communities are less likely to have sidewalks, marked crosswalks, and street design to support safer, slower speeds.”
Without such infrastructure, Black and Hispanic residents face the greatest risks. According to a Harvard and Boston University study assessing racial disparities and traffic fatalities, for every mile walked, Black people are twice as likely to be killed by cars compared to white pedestrians.
For every mile ridden, Black cyclists are 4.5 times more likely to be killed than white cyclists. At the same time, Hispanic cyclists and pedestrians experience a 1.7 and 1.5-fold risk of being killed compared to white Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at bicycling.com ...
Racism also keeps blacks off of hiking trails
Absolutely DUMBEST article I’ve seen all day
I can tell you from watching it being done, retrofitting bike lanes and sidewalks into older suburbs not built with them originally is EXPENSIVE and difficult.
Ebby’ting be Rassist yo’...
Don’t these people ever get tired of this BS?
ROTFL! Funny stuff. Too many jokes fit in here but we’re all happy that Whitey Lib pointed this out to us or would have never known. The evil old Racial Divide. It’s the same reason why most dead cyclists were wearing Nikes.
In most cities different groups of people have inhabited specific neighborhoods in different periods of time. As just one example, the neighborhoods in Boston with the largest percentage of minority residents today used to be neighborhoods inhabited by white residents. The streets, sidewalks, and parks were built by and for the white people who lived in those neighborhoods at the time.
How is even remotely reasonable to now claim that somehow supposedly higher rates of pedestrian and bicycle injuries are a result of racist policies that built less safe streets and sidewalks in minority neighborhoods?
It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that so many inner city black kids are raised with abject disdain for the White man’s laws, including traffic laws.
And ski slopes.
Phoenix has all these bike lanes downtown and it is so confusing and very dangerous and so few ride in them.
Nothing says "we have reliable data" like this:
"Although rare, walking trips exceeding 30 miles make up 25% of the weighted walking mileage, most of which was attributed to just 5 trips longer than 1,000 miles"
They use an estimation technique to try to guess what the risk per mile traveled is. Ultimately, differential rates of risk based on race or ethnic group are probably more affected by income level, cultural norms and other factors.
As one example, in many suburban and rural areas adults who walk or use bicycles do so because they have lost their licenses, or do not have a driver's license. Those individuals who have lost their licenses often lost their licenses due to alcoholism or drug abuse. The higher risk of pedestrian accidents for them comes not from their race but from their economic and health situation.
Due to increased gas costs, insurance costs and other increased vehicle expenses, many car drivers are not riding bikes.
They ride their bikes like they are still in their vehicles.
As a result, often they are an accident waiting to happen.
Our city laid off 3 bike riding cops during the Covid BS.
They may be re hiring those officers to patrol the bike lanes.
Who would ride a bicycle when classic pimpmobiles are the rage.
A few years ago when the bicycling mobs dressed as exotic insects were deliberately tying up traffic in city after city. They came here to Panama City and tried it once on a busy two lane. Nobody got hurt but the bicycles did. They went away right after that and have not troubled our streets since then.
In downtown LA and Venice I have seen large groups of young men of color riding bikes together. Like dozens at a time. Iirc they pretty much all had white tees and shorts. I assumed they were a crew or gang.
There are plenty of bike riders of color. They just don’t do it in the same places for the same reasons as, say, the wealthy older cyclists who ride around the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Blacks and homeless are over represented in bicycle fatalities because they are not “cyclists” but people using bicycles for transport without knowledge or heed of safe riding and often at night or under the influence.
roads, sidewalks, math, chemistry, toothpaste, toilet paper.....they’re all racist....
Yep!!
They also ride crazy with minimal skill
Weak theory presented as fact. Where is the supporting evidence? Another theory is that bikers of color are less considerate, unwilling to yield when in the right, on drugs or alcohol, sleep deprived, or take risks rather than avoid them.
We’ve got The Onion. We’ve got the superb Babylon Bee. We have no need for some sports mag entering the satire market.
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