If you take some time to read the article you get with the inevitable dribble like - "it's time for the activists to up their game and end this horrible oppression" - like somebody got up this morning and planned to place somebody else at a disadvantage? I live in the Connecticut RIver Valley as it runs between NH and VT and within a 30 minute drive I can go to five agencies and co-ops that will give anybody a refurbished bike for free. So the question of a gap that just HAS to be closed is rubbish. The author runs a bike-coop and guess what he wants funding for...? Decent bikes are available to most who want one. As a retired mechanic I spend all winter working on a new batch of used bikes and sell them all for the price of the parts come Spring.

Could always try to get a bike the old fashioned way? Save your money and buy one.