DDOT director announces that the city will not be moving forward with the Connecticut Avenue bike lane:
https://twitter.com/AdamTuss/status/1778454503852757451 |
Common sense prevails.
Riders can continue sharing the road like they do now, and disregarding all traffic laws. |
Great news! |
Yay! |
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.
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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. |
I take back my yay |
A stunning victory for everyone who is stuck in the 1950s. |
Marvelous. Now they need to start testing that nonsense out everywhere else. |
Tearing not testing!
They need to tear it out! |
Good! |
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. |
Common sense prevails! |
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 |
This |