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Re: East Bay Bike Partiers attacked by cars
- To: noelle
 
- Subject: Re: East Bay Bike Partiers attacked by cars
 
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
 
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:54:45 -0800
 
- Keywords: our-Oakland-cell-phone-number
 
 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 08:38:36 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > it's another symptom of income inequality
Do you mean that Oakland wouldn't bother putting protected bike lanes in
low-income neighborhoods, where these out-of-neighborhood bicyclists were
riding?
 > On Sat, 18 Feb 2023, robert wrote:
 >  >  > From: Noelle <noelle>
 >  >  > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:12:01 -0800 (PST)
 >  >  >
 >  >  > then there's the Oaklandside investigation about the teen car 
 >  >  > thieves who deliberately door the bicyclists, that's even more 
 >  >  > disturbing(shared on Session)
 >  > 
 >  > https://oaklandside.org/2023/02/14/east-bay-bicyclists-frightened-by-string-of-recent-car-attacks/
 >  > 
 >  > Yeah.  But, again, this seems to be a structural issue, not a social one.
 >  > 
 >  >  > On Thu, 16 Feb 2023, robert wrote:
 >  >  >  >  > From: Noelle <noelle>
 >  >  >  >  > Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 07:37:21 -0800 (PST)
 >  >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  >  > https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/14/vehicle-attacks-against-cyclists-on-east-bay-streets-draw-scrutiny/
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  > Obviously, this is problematic, but the real issue is structural: why
 >  >  >  > aren't there protected separate lanes for bicycles?  Seems like this 
 >  >  >  > would
 >  >  >  > fix a lot of problems, not just this.