Bike Lanes Aren't Really About Bicycles

There is a new wave of anti-bicycle rhetoric in my city, likely mirrored throughout other major cities in the United States. This is in no small part due to recent comments from politicians about "D.E.I. bike lanes", a term that doesn't actually mean anything, but contains enough fun buzzwords for people to latch onto and direct their anger toward. Suddenly, bike lanes are political. One of the…