meganL

meganL, miesiąc temu

@linjari @cycling Unfortunately, since they purposely chose wood for these, they would just mow them down. In fact, some of them come pre-scored at the bottom with the excuse that police & fire should be able to easily drive through them when needed.

Since they're almost never where they're supposed to be installed, that's not needed.

meganL, miesiąc temu

@alexisdyslexic @cycling It's a mixed bag. Davis is mostly coasting on the genuine cycling activism they had in the '70s and '80s (possibly later, but not a lot recently). That created a lot of infrastructure that survived. There is new infrastructure, but it can be ableist and car-centric.

So it's better cycle infrastructure than most US places, but that's not saying much.

And the culture within Davis and UC Davis is super-ableist, some areas very car-centric and capitalistic. #UCAccessNow

meganL, miesiąc temu

@alexisdyslexic @cycling So my point is not to act as if Davis is the worst - it's not. But I want to show that you don't have to scratch deeply to hit the car-centrism and ableism. Therefore holding it up uncritically as "Platinum Bike-Friendly" does us a great disservice. #UCAccessNow #CarCenrism #Cycling