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>So they fight it tooth and nailOnce a bike lane or major street reconfiguration happens, it's permanent. And funny you mention "histrionic behavior" to "discredit their opposition" because whenever those sorts of debates come about, crying about the "oil lobby" and "selfish cagers/NIMBYs" is what usually happens.
>"you just want to ban cars" to discredit their oppositionIs it, though? Urbanists and cars act like the anti-gun lobby, arguing for "we don't want to BAN guns" yet demanding more restrictions and hoops every election cycle. After all, the urbanist crowd has stated their goal to ban larger trucks/SUVs (NJB's own video), crying about how anyone living in a single-family house needs to "pay their fair share", cries about freeways, cries about major avenues, cries about street parking, cries about business parking, cries about the industry, and so forth and so on, and then when you call them out for what they are, they whimper and cry about "alternatives to driving".
If anything, it's the classic case of "give an inch, they take a mile". It's not good enough outcome to turn a lane of a six-lane road to a four lane road plus a bike path anymore, and the second you say "no" to anything, out comes the namecalling. As urbanism radicalizes and gains ground, more and more people are seeing through this shit and the only retaliation is just calling them crazy as they move toward proving them right.
