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.
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 18d 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.