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Hey y'all, you're listening to Ask Code Switch, I'm Lori Lissaraga.

We're back with another piping hot episode of Ask Code Switch, the part of the show where we tackle your race and identity questions and confusions.

And we got a big one today, so let's just jump right in.

This Ask Code Switch question comes from a listener in the city of Brotherly Love.

Hi, Code Switch. My name is Stephan and I'm calling from Philadelphia.

I'm writing to ask about an issue near and dear to my heart,

race and bike lanes.

I think everyone deserves access to safe healthy transportation

that doesn't destroy the earth or their communities, but it seems like the bike lane discussion often gets pulled into a race-aligned argument with a lot of unspoken assumptions.

My question for ask code switches, do Lanes actually cause or accelerate gentrification?

More broadly, how can we achieve transportation justice without threatening other kinds of social justice?

Okay, so Stephen's question here is based on a not uncommon assumption that if a bike

lane comes to your neighborhood, your rent is going up. But where does this idea come from? Are bike lanes really elevating

one community while evicting another? And if that's the case, are bike advocates on the wrong side of progress.

That's coming up on Scoats, which we'll be right back. I'm Lori. This is As Code Switch. Today our question comes from Stephen Zagick in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

It's a question he says he wrestles with every time he gets on his bike,

which for Stephen is pretty often.

There's the perception that bike lanes cause harm, but there's also, I think, an absence of

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