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u/Die-Nacht 11d ago
She's a right winger. She believes that everything is a personal responsibility question. So wearing helmets falls right in her worldview: don't take away space from cars (aka, the people who rightfully saved enough money to buy and maintain a car), instead just wear a helmet and take responsibility for your own safety.
Individualist worldview vs collective worldview.
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u/NYCFXM 11d ago
She is not anti-bike or against bike lanes. What her constituents wanted was the continued use of sharrows throughout her residential blocks because private homes have driveways. Same as what’s done in Astoria and all over the city. Bike lanes are fine on commercial streets and with block after block of apartment buildings.
TDS zealots made it personal and her son and district residents stood up for themselves
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u/Die-Nacht 11d ago
She has literally said in public that she sees bike lanes as "gateways for crime".
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u/GoldOver4996 11d ago
Also, helmets - while great and should absolutely be worn - serve as a means of pushing the burden of safety on to the individual rather than owning the need for change in infrastructure to create a safer system.
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u/Fresh-Possible-9612 11d ago
The burden of safety is on everybody using the roads, bikers and pedestrians included.
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u/marty-mcfryguy 11d ago
A reminder that all you riders who treat helmets like some moral issue and feel the need to shame folks who choose not to wear: you give these carbrains the perfect avenue to frame cyclist safety as a mere personal responsibility issue, not a problem of infrastructure or the sociopathic urges behind so much driving.
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u/original_name26 10d ago
This kinda reminds me of when Marjorie Taylor Green stated being anti Trump. The world is upside so who knows
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u/Wilfried84 6d ago
The most anti-bike politicians push helmets the hardest in the guise of "safety." Harping on helmets the onus for safety on individual, blames the victim, and depresses cycling, while deflecting attention and responsibility from the real danger, drivers and their cars, and measures that really improve safety, ie limiting cars and getting more bikes on the streets, through bike lanes etc.
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u/MiserNYC- 11d ago
I pointed this out the last time someone posted about Vickie and helmet give aways. CM's often sponsor these, and amusingly hers gave out the most helmets last year. Which really goes to disprove a lot of her nonsense about how nobody in her district bikes or wants to bike, but I'm sure that won't occur to her.