a lot of cities are focusing their efforts on building bicycle infrastructure to attract new cyclists (aka the “creative class”) rather build it for low income folks who already bike. This promotion of the creative class cycling is definitely linked to gentrification. In this way, cities are basically saying that “invisible” cyclists do not belong within their rebranded vision of a city for and by the so-called “creative” class.
The first people I met that were vegan, trans, queer and used pronouns and also were internationalist intersectionalist (yes all of that at the same time) were punks in squats, who were poor, not seldomly drop outs (from school or in general) and most did not have rich or even economical okay parents. That was in the 90s-early 2000s.
But it is too hard for our Dr. Engineering to use words like they, fuck off.
this is such a common misconception that there’s a term for the lower class cyclists: “invisible cyclists”
they are so easily ignored by most folks, they are non-existent in the perception of a lot of folks, but they exist if you actually look for them
old article about this: https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20049826/how-low-income-cyclists-go-unnoticed/
this quote lays it out pretty clearly:
from a discussion here: https://bikeleague.org/rethinking-term-invisible-cyclist/
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Totally.
The first people I met that were vegan, trans, queer and used pronouns and also were internationalist intersectionalist (yes all of that at the same time) were punks in squats, who were poor, not seldomly drop outs (from school or in general) and most did not have rich or even economical okay parents. That was in the 90s-early 2000s.
But it is too hard for our Dr. Engineering to use words like they, fuck off.