Connecticut Avenue bike lane officially dead

[Anonymous]

DDOT director announces that the city will not be moving forward with the Connecticut Avenue bike lane:

https://twitter.com/AdamTuss/status/1778454503852757451

[Anonymous]

Common sense prevails.

Riders can continue sharing the road like they do now, and disregarding all traffic laws.

[Anonymous]

Great news!

[Anonymous]

Yay!

[Anonymous]

Though it does appear to be a pyrrhic victory for commuters - both sides of Connecticut will be available for parking 24/7, with bump outs for traffic calming, meaning the right lane on each side will be unavailable to drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anyone currently biking on Conn Ave today is not a typical cyclist. I've been biking nearly daily in DC for decades and am still terrified whenever I have to take Conn. The vast majority of cyclists are too scared to bike there. When there are bike lanes - which will apparently not be anytime soon - there will be many more people able to bike that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Though it does appear to be a pyrrhic victory for commuters - both sides of Connecticut will be available for parking 24/7, with bump outs for traffic calming, meaning the right lane on each side will be unavailable to drivers.

I take back my yay

[Anonymous]

A stunning victory for everyone who is stuck in the 1950s.

[Anonymous]

Marvelous. Now they need to start testing that nonsense out everywhere else.

[Anonymous]

Tearing not testing!

They need to tear it out!

[Anonymous]

Good!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone currently biking on Conn Ave today is not a typical cyclist. I've been biking nearly daily in DC for decades and am still terrified whenever I have to take Conn. The vast majority of cyclists are too scared to bike there. When there are bike lanes - which will apparently not be anytime soon - there will be many more people able to bike that way.

Bike lanes on Conn Ave are the ultimate in entitlement. Inconveniencing and slowing down traffic for tens of thousands for the benefit of a few hundred.

[Anonymous]

Common sense prevails!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone currently biking on Conn Ave today is not a typical cyclist. I've been biking nearly daily in DC for decades and am still terrified whenever I have to take Conn. The vast majority of cyclists are too scared to bike there. When there are bike lanes - which will apparently not be anytime soon - there will be many more people able to bike that way.

Bike lanes on Conn Ave are the ultimate in entitlement. Inconveniencing and slowing down traffic for tens of thousands for the benefit of a few hundred.

It's absolutely true that there are very few cyclists who use Connecticut - BECAUSE THERE ARE NO BIKE LANES! The only way to increase cycling is to make cycling safe. In the Netherlands, there is a great cycling infrastructure and cycling is widespread.

Of course, DC is not going to turn into the Netherlands, you say, because we're a car culture. True. As was Netherlands in 1971, when more than 400 children were killed in traffic accidents. It took a lot of work and many years to build safe cities there, as it will here. We should start now.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bicycle-capital-world-transport-cycling-kindermoord

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marvelous. Now they need to start testing that nonsense out everywhere else.

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