The relationship between low income communities, communities of color,
and biking seems to be getting more press lately as communities from
Portland to Detroit to Milwaukee work to incorporate bicycling into
their transportation infrastructure and their transportation culture.
Below, Keith Holt of Milwaukee Bicycle Works talks about how bike shops
and community cycling organizations can help people in poor
neighborhoods get access to bikes and keep them rolling. What's even
more interesting to me is his discussion of biking as simultaneously a
poor man's thing and a rich white man's thing, something somehow beyond the boundaries of mainstream cultural acceptance. (via Greater Greater Washington)
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