Cyclists run the gamut but cycling infrastructure favors the wealthy. This favor is explicit (where agencies choose to create infrastructure, systematically) and implicit (land use follows “the market”, pushing the poor away from infrastructure).
This would not be the case if we fixed the latter by overthrowing the capitalist class - or at leasr scaring the shit out if them.
cycling infrastructure favors the wealthy. This favor is explicit (where agencies choose to create infrastructure, systematically) and implicit (land use follows “the market”, pushing the poor away from infrastructure).
People choose to make capital investments to create cycling infrastructure. The active decision and investment and work is on the side of that coin that favors the wealthy.
Land use and the emphasis on car-centric streets do as well, and is normally what cycling infrastructure is bolted onto. So the “default” lack of infrastructure was also intentionally created that way to favor the wealthy - the people who could afford cars early on. Streets were a commons that got restricted to private vehicles.
Cyclists run the gamut but cycling infrastructure favors the wealthy. This favor is explicit (where agencies choose to create infrastructure, systematically) and implicit (land use follows “the market”, pushing the poor away from infrastructure).
This would not be the case if we fixed the latter by overthrowing the capitalist class - or at leasr scaring the shit out if them.
how does cycling infrastructure favour the wealthy
It’s built where they live and where they want to go.
ok so you don’t mean the existence of cycling infrastructure favours the wealthy you mean the lack of it disadvantages the poor
People choose to make capital investments to create cycling infrastructure. The active decision and investment and work is on the side of that coin that favors the wealthy.
Land use and the emphasis on car-centric streets do as well, and is normally what cycling infrastructure is bolted onto. So the “default” lack of infrastructure was also intentionally created that way to favor the wealthy - the people who could afford cars early on. Streets were a commons that got restricted to private vehicles.