With over 2M subscribers, I guess I might be posting a link I don't need to post.
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With over 2M subscribers, I guess I might be posting a link I don't need to post.
However, I just wanted to add that however bad you think this infrastructure is for abled cyclists, you need to think about how bad it is for disabled cyclists and for mobility aid users.
They won't be riding down stairs like this guy.
So don't view it as a luxury, but something that should be coalition-building and changing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz0n0KhDGuM #Ableism #Infrastructure #CarCentrism
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Megan Lynch (she/her)replied to Megan Lynch (she/her) last edited by
The more I watch, the more I realize how dangerous it is for abled white (or white-passing) cis men to be pronouncing how safe cycle infrastructure is. At least without extensive learning from disabled/BIPOC/LGBTQ/women/poor folks.
He breezed right by a blocked off curb cut without commenting on it and probably not even noticing it because he actually likes curbhopping. Not everyone can do that.
Every time he rode on stripmall sidewalk, stairs, pedestrian paths, #Ableism
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@meganL “Cyclists” are the worst people to identify good or bad infrastructure, because they’re the people who haven’t already been dissuaded from bicycling.
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@dx I'd say the worst are car-driving DOT planners, but I'm really not comfortable moving the topic away from ableism so quickly.
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@meganL I get what you’re saying, but this is a bad example. What you’re saying up above isn’t about abled/disabled — I’m an able bodied white guy who has spent a lot of hours in the saddle, and I can’t do those things.
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@dx Ableism doesn't only affect disabled people.
EDIT: Here's a definition of ableism by Black scholars that I think takes in the interlocking nature of it.