- 06 Oct 2016 06:48
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'Rightly or wrongly, gentrification is often seen as a process that arrives on two wheels. From Red Hook in Brooklyn to London Fields, fixed-gear bike-wielding young professionals have flocked to former industrial lots and waterfronts.'
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016 ... rification
'...the growth of city cycling is not purely utilitarian. Among what urban theorist Richard Florida calls “the creative class”, the bicycle is a potent symbol of identity and status. And more bikes, it seems, means more well-paid knowledge economy jobs. “Cycling to work is positively associated with the share of creative-class jobs and negatively associated with working-class jobs...
...Consequently, local hostility to cycling infrastructure has often been a proxy for wider anger at gentrification. In Portland, Oregon in 2011, a proposed bike lane through a historic African American neighborhood led to opposition from local residents. In 2013, a prominent church opposed a similar scheme in downtown Washington DC.'
The thing about cycling is that is not really a transportation alternative. It can't work for most people. Extreme variations in velocity and mass within the same roadways guarantee unacceptable levels of danger.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016 ... rification
'...the growth of city cycling is not purely utilitarian. Among what urban theorist Richard Florida calls “the creative class”, the bicycle is a potent symbol of identity and status. And more bikes, it seems, means more well-paid knowledge economy jobs. “Cycling to work is positively associated with the share of creative-class jobs and negatively associated with working-class jobs...
...Consequently, local hostility to cycling infrastructure has often been a proxy for wider anger at gentrification. In Portland, Oregon in 2011, a proposed bike lane through a historic African American neighborhood led to opposition from local residents. In 2013, a prominent church opposed a similar scheme in downtown Washington DC.'
The thing about cycling is that is not really a transportation alternative. It can't work for most people. Extreme variations in velocity and mass within the same roadways guarantee unacceptable levels of danger.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci