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[lotsoweiners]

Of course they have most of their space dedicated to cars because that is how people want to get around in Denver. Denver is a sprawling metro with around 50 days of snow per year. I'm all for bike lanes but if you start trying to create traffic congestion by taking away more of the streets from cars you will lose elections because you aren't appealing to the masses.

[wonder_er → lotsoweiners]

Cars is not how people want to get around in Denver.

Mindlessly repeating this fact does damage to the psychology of every single person that earnestly wishes that they didn't have to drive.

A huge fraction of people dislike driving.

Of course, lots of people have to get around, and most of them don't want to die accidentally, so the systemic pressure creating drivers is immense.

American road networks have been managed in a way that should be labeled criminal.

Urban renewal in the '50s and '60s was used to destroy ethnic neighborhoods for the emotional well-being of politically powerful white people.

The reason everyone drives today is because of the ethnic cleansing (via road networks) being conducted by white people in the '50s.

The roads are already devastatingly congested.

To act like American mobility networks are fair, or reasonable, or functional is something like gaslighting at a population level than anything else.