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How Paris swapped cars for bikes โ and transformed its streets
(www.theguardian.com)
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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City โ In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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That's a social responsibility problem, not a bike problem though
I have a hard time understanding what you mean? Bike are not beings, they are no problem, nor is a hammer, it always is the people using them, right?
Yeah it's idiots doing idiotic things. I'd rather have them doing idiotic things on bikes and scooters than cars.
Agreed, but accidents still are accidents 'sometimes with dramatic consequences). And excusing idiocy or idiotic behavior because it happens on a bike is not a good idea: it the same idiocy with the same sad consequences. Like I said, the tool is not the issue, how a person is using it is.