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New York Magazine’s Dan Amira explains why conservatives are up in arms about New York City’s “Bike Share” program.

He thinks it has little to do with bicycles or bicyclists (including the type of cyclists that I recently heard called the “spandex mafia”) and everything to do with what bicycles and bicycling symbolize to the conservative mind. A nugget:

But, in a way, the depth of conservative animosity for a bike-share program makes perfect sense. Because, as the Venn diagram above indicates, Citi Bike finds itself at the very nexus of five different things that conservatives hate.

Follow the link. Methinks he has a point.

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