"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion.

"This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

The government we deserve.

Nobody bother thinking coherent thoughts, insults and spurious non sequiturs are policy now.

For a specific critique,

> One of the safety tools that has been taken down is known as the Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool, or PBCAT. As of Thursday, a link to the page that formerly hosted the tool on the FHWA website was dead.

Was it actually being used? Is there an alternative/better data source? Is it the only one?

https://catsip.berkeley.edu/resources/crash-data/crash-data-...

Lists 7 federal reporting methods. Why aren't these sufficient? Why was this one special? Why are there so many!?

Who knows what the actual story is behind this, but it won't be found here!

I'm not sure what changed at NPR, but there seems to be a heavy lean towards emotion now rather than depth. In the past, when I've looking into these sort of framings, they often give a completely different perspective that could have been reported.

I have friends who despise cyclists but oppose bike lanes. Bike lanes would take cyclists out of your lane and into their own lane. Plus if more people start cycling because there's infrastructure, that's less car traffic in the way of your truck! It just seems like a win-win for everybody. I've given up hope on transportation in the USA. It certainly won't be fixed within my lifetime.

What's a "DEI bike lane"? Like woke, DEI has lost all meaning at the political level of discourse. It's just whatever the current regime dislikes.