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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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[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 minute ago

God i hate these nazi's SO DAMN MUCH.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

I fucking hate these people, and now as a cyclist I have even more reason to

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

WTF is a "DEI bike lane?" Does your bike need to be fabulous to use it?

[–] baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 57 minutes ago

Fucking bicyclicans

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 2 points 52 minutes ago

They saw bi in the name and decided it must be banned.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

I think it's pretty obvious that only gay dudes ride bikes

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Yes that’s the entire reason I no longer cycle. My bike has let itself get rundown, has not paid attention to its physical self, and looks like something that just hangs out in the garage all the time. I think it just gave up that it’s middleaged self can’t compete with newer flashier models

[–] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Yes. My bike is super gay. It's so gay it did three seasons of Broadway and did great at Cannes

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

If you're against diversity, inclusion and antifascist, what does that make you?

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 32 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of Conservapedia. They don't believe in Theory of Relativity. Because Andrew Schlafly thought "relativity" sounds too much like moral relativism, and big Biblical Literalists like him think that is a Satanic ploy.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 hours ago

Truly intellectual giants

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck that.

I love my bike lane, as a recent e-scooter convert. And you know what sucks? Even my protected bike is not respected.

Just in a month of being a scooter traveler, I've had food trucks park in the bike lane (Ignoring that there's ample parking space beyond the boundary), homeless people just laying down and sleeping in the bike lane, multiple people not paying attention on their phones just walking into it, people pulling out of a McDonald's and more interested in their burger or soda than checking if a bike or scooter is coming, etc. etc. etc.

Bike lanes are great, but if you're on two wheels, understand that no one is looking out for you and it's on you to ensure your own safe passage. (Not that it should be, mind you. That's just how it is.)

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 3 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

We need all terrain bikes and we just run them over anything in the bike lane. Gimme the Hummer of bicycles and let's make those bike lanes as dangerous as the main road. See how many people hang out in them then

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

Its a fun thought, but I genuinely pity people sleeping on the street.

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 59 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 1 points 1 minute 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 9 points 7 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 15 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 118 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 62 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Had to make sure his hands are realistically sized.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 13 hours ago

Photoshopping in hamster paws would be closer to reality.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You forgot the black mark of death on the rat paws

[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago

Here are the rat paws at least.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Why is grant money from 5 years ago even still around? Why didn't they actually use the money for what it supposed to be used for in the last 5 years?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

It was a common criticism at the time: a lot of the infrastructure bill was to work with state and local organizations to get stuff done. Entire networks of groups and agencies needed to be established and planned. At government speeds, that means many years before results are visible.

Biden-area initiatives would have made fundamental improvements over decades, assuming they were allowed to continue. But in today’s world of limited attention spans and constant outrage, we can no longer see long term efforts

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I doubt every project started at the same time the day after the grants were approved.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 13 hours ago

Of course it is. Everything I don't like is woke.

To be fair, everything that is good about the United States of America is DEI. There are even expressions of it in the Declaration of Independence.

Granted, the DoI was written by slaveowners, but Jefferson was borrowing from enlightenment philosophy which really was about everyone having equal rights, equal relationship to law, equal liberties, etc. When Lincoln and the Republican postbellum Congress took power, they understood the enlightenment principles that guided the framers and extended them to all men (but not yet women).

France did more to balance the playing field with the Napoleonic code, though that was because Napoleon wanted to be emperor and understood the whole social contract thing. France would still have to wait until the 20th century before providing full freedom of religion. And now France is frightened of Islam.

[–] MJF@thelemmy.club 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Do they not think before they speak, like, at all?

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Not generally.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, duh. Inclusion for those that don’t or can’t drive. Diversity for… the same reason. Equity by providing a safe place for those without a car to be able to travel just the same. Turns out bike lanes ARE DEI and that isn’t a bad thing in the slightest.

[–] Town@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

This seems consistent with their worldview...

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 hours ago

Meanwhile painting a skinny line on the road and calling it a bike line is so sketchy that not having them at all is safer

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago
[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

$1.75 billion for bike lanes goes much further, it's around four miles of interstate.

Idk with the way Trump makes deals it'll probably end up being less than a mile in a no bid contact to the company of some golf buddy from Mar-a-Lago.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 8 points 15 hours ago

Sean Duffy's appointment was DEI

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

They've learned a new term besides woke, it seems, for anything they don't like.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 8 points 16 hours ago

Gargle my hairy balls, Pat.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Nothing says diversity equality and inclusion like bikes 🙄. Ands what's up with that?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder how they feel about home-equity.

[–] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

They hate it. Hence "reverse mortgages"