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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead.

So, what exactly is a “DEI bike lane?”

The Daily Wire pointed to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claim that a series of 2021 grants funding bike lanes would serve to “improve infrastructure, strengthen supply chains, make us safer, advance equity, and combat climate change.”

Upon hearing “equity,” President Donald Trump’s goons can’t help but get triggered into attacking any federal spending that won’t benefit them directly. In reality, those Biden-era grants directed funds to build a new transit center in North Carolina, replace bridges in New Mexico, extend streets in New Hampshire, install traffic lights and crosswalks in Missouri, and install bike lanes in Seattle, among other projects. Now the financial status of these projects is unclear.

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 63 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Conservatives hate freedom. In this case they hate the idea that you'd have freedoms to travel without paying for the privilege.

Want to leave your home? Buy your car from the billionaires. Pay for gas to billionaires. Have your insurance from billionaires. What? You'd like to bike and no pay to a billionaire?!? Can't have that freedom. Get back to work, serf.

[–] galacticbackhoe@lemmy.world 2 points 54 minutes ago

I think even more so, they think riding a bike somewhere is a "gay soyboy" activity and that people biking are "in their way". Of course, bike lanes would get bikers out of their way, but they are too stupid to understand anything.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

I often think of the movie bugs life where the grasshopper says that the ants outnumber them 6 to 1, and if they ever figure that out, our way of life is over.

No particular reason, but there are more of us than them, by a lot.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 16 points 15 hours ago

And they don't want the poors to be able to escape from their slums.