Why do they hate bicycles so much? I honestly don't understand. What did bicycles do to them?
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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Drivers hate cyclists because they’re in the way because they have no bike lanes because drivers hate cyclists because…
In the defence of the powers that be, the bicycle industry hasn't been lining political pockets for a century like the auto industry has. Cervelo has got to look through the cushions and buy an election or two.
It's not so much the auto industry but the fuel industry behind it. The same pipeline bringing you anti-bike messaging usually brings anti-EV stuff, too.
It's both. Toyota is the third biggest anti-climate lobbyist in the world after, you guessed it, some fuel companies.
They dare to not use oil or gas, so there's a lot of money involved to keep people from using them.
Oil lobbying.
I always hesitate to say it because I don't want to come across as making light of racism and sexism and whatnot, but it feels like a form of bigotry to me.
Classism is a form of bigotry. There are many forms of bigotry.
And bicycles are ridden both by poor workers who can't afford cars and the elite who don't need to rush about in cars, so it's a form of transport that all classes can be told to hate! 🙄
Not even that, there are luxury bicycles as well.
I love how the US is like this huge international case study of how not to do it, and every other nation learns from it. But the US continues to be completely oblivious to this and doubles down on all the mistakes it makes.
We have not invented here syndrome around urban planning pretty bad
They call it war on cars, but cyclists is the one that havr to fight an uphill battle to make cycling safe, while car driver simply sit on their ass whining and bitching about bike lane and the government will just cave in to them. They have no idea what's a war are.
So just recently dropped this thing I say regularly that biden was the best president of my lifetime. One guy argued with me and part of the argument was the funding bills were greenwashing. This is about stopping the funding from one of those bills:
Federal funding for bike paths had not long ago seen a significant boost, thanks to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, 2021, which created discretionary grant programs such as the Reconnecting Communities pilot program and the Safe Streets and Roads for All program, the LAB explained on its website.