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And where have we invested in segregated bicycle lanes? Along recreational corridors, that don’t lead to schools, daycare centers, grocery stores, or major employment centers. In other words, the safest bicycle facilities have been installed where few women really want or need to go.

If we’re going to increase bicycling—which everyone agrees at least theoretically is in the community’s best interests—then we need to invest in safer infrastructure to serve the population that isn’t young, male, and super fit. If women are bicycling in equivalent numbers to men, then the revolution will be here.

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Bike Infrastructure Is a Women’s Issue

There are a lot of other reasons women don’t ride bikes for transportation as much as men do (chief among which, I maintain, is that women are way more subject to judgement on their appearance, and many feel they’ll look sloppy if they ride a bike to work), but this is succinct and smart and really fucking important.

Unfortunately, guerilla bike-lane painting is dumb and doesn’t work. So, I have this to offer: If you are a lady in D.C. and for whatever reason are hesitant to ride a bike to get from Point A to B, I will spend, like, a few hours with you riding around the city. We can stick to bike lanes or I can bring you through traffic. If you don’t have a bike, you can use one of mine. I’m absolutely serious about this.

(via alexbaca)