Bikes lanes poorly designed - unsafe for drivers and bikers

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Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

$4 million!

Nothing in that article says it was unused. It was mismanaged and padlocked for dc’s nonpayment of rent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/09/02/union-station-dc-bicycles-lawsuit/

Yes, I posted this somewhere, but the history here is that DC built the station, and leased it to a private company. The private company ran it successfully for about 10 years, until it went out of business during the pandemic. DC took over the space and let it run into the ground. The space is good -- everyone needs secure storage at union station! -- the city not so much.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

I saw someone with what looked like a five year old riding on their handlebars on a really busy street in the middle of rush hour.

I saw someone with a kid on their bike riding *on the yellow line* of one of those extremely busy streets named after a state

Today I saw a teenager on e-bike with what looked like a six year boy in his lap going maybe 30mph. No helmets.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

I saw someone with what looked like a five year old riding on their handlebars on a really busy street in the middle of rush hour.

I saw someone with a kid on their bike riding *on the yellow line* of one of those extremely busy streets named after a state

Today I saw a teenager on e-bike with what looked like a six year boy in his lap going maybe 30mph. No helmets.

That's cool. Today I saw a RAV4 with MD plates just simply not stop for the HAWK light at Ellicot and Conn Ave headed north, even though it was a solid red and there was a person in the crosswalk halfway over an walking toward the RAV4.

So what's your point?

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

I saw someone with what looked like a five year old riding on their handlebars on a really busy street in the middle of rush hour.

I saw someone with a kid on their bike riding *on the yellow line* of one of those extremely busy streets named after a state

Today I saw a teenager on e-bike with what looked like a six year boy in his lap going maybe 30mph. No helmets.

That's cool. Today I saw a RAV4 with MD plates just simply not stop for the HAWK light at Ellicot and Conn Ave headed north, even though it was a solid red and there was a person in the crosswalk halfway over an walking toward the RAV4.

So what's your point?

Today I saw a driver sail through the red light without stopping, and the only reason they didn't broadside my car is that I know to stop before entering that intersection, even when I have a green light.

Now, what were we talking about?

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Anonymous wrote:Bikes lanes in NWDC on New Mexico Avenue and all of the islands for pedestrians are already causing issues. Islands not lit up properly so at night at least 2 cars have driven over the islands (not drunk) and gutted out the entire bottom of their cars and had to be towed.

Took away parking in front of Wagshals and all along on side of the street so people with less expensive housing like apartments that don't have garages are now without parking.

The bikers using the bike lanes don't even live in the city and not in the neighborhood.

Nowhere to put trash cans except on the nice green grass which will kill the grass (that is very environmentally friendly killing grass)

turning left into Foxhall Square off of New Mexico when cars go around you they go into the bike lane - dangerous for bikers but cars have no choice as there is no where else to go to get around cars

The bike lanes and unattractive poles are now installed and I still saw 3 people on bikes yesterday riding in the road anyways what a waste.

3? Every single one of them. Made me think that the lane was closed temporarily.
Two more years and then I have no business going that way. The island are very high and narrow, ugly too.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

I saw someone with what looked like a five year old riding on their handlebars on a really busy street in the middle of rush hour.

I saw someone with a kid on their bike riding *on the yellow line* of one of those extremely busy streets named after a state

Today I saw a teenager on e-bike with what looked like a six year boy in his lap going maybe 30mph. No helmets.

That's cool. Today I saw a RAV4 with MD plates just simply not stop for the HAWK light at Ellicot and Conn Ave headed north, even though it was a solid red and there was a person in the crosswalk halfway over an walking toward the RAV4.

So what's your point?

Today I saw a driver sail through the red light without stopping, and the only reason they didn't broadside my car is that I know to stop before entering that intersection, even when I have a green light.

Now, what were we talking about?

you stop for green lights? wha?

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I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

lol. is there an epidemic of pedestrians being killed by bikes?

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

LOL - do we live in the same region?

It usually takes 2 hands to count the number of drivers who run red lights every single time the light turns red.

At least a couple of times a week in DC I see drivers who've come to a complete stop just decide they don't want to wait for the light to turn green and they go ahead and proceed thru the red light when there is a break in the traffic.

I do not understand why some pedestrians are so terrified of bikes - injuries and deaths from bikers are extraordinarily rare - more people were killed by lightning in DC in 2022 than have been killed by bikes in the entire history of the region.

Meanwhile cars kill 40-50 people just in DC every single year.

But yeah spend your time walking around being paranoid about something that almost never happens.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

I would love for drivers to stop for me when I'm walking and have a walk signal. Sometimes I even run out of walk signal time, because I had to wait to start crossing until after all of the drivers had finished turning. I would also like to be able to cross driveways with confidence that entering or exiting drivers won't hit me while I'm walking on the sidewalk. But apparently those are just personal idiosyncrasies.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

lol. is there an epidemic of pedestrians being killed by bikes?

It’s not OK to hit people with your bike even if you don’t kill them, FYI.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

lol. is there an epidemic of pedestrians being killed by bikes?

It’s not OK to hit people with your bike even if you don’t kill them, FYI.

Nobody has said otherwise.

Similarly, it's not ok to hit people with your car even if you don't kill them, FYI.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

lol. is there an epidemic of pedestrians being killed by bikes?

It’s not OK to hit people with your bike even if you don’t kill them, FYI.

Nobody has said otherwise.

Similarly, it's not ok to hit people with your car even if you don't kill them, FYI.

I don’t drive. I walk. Trust me the greatest menace on my commute is cyclists.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

lol. is there an epidemic of pedestrians being killed by bikes?

It’s not OK to hit people with your bike even if you don’t kill them, FYI.

Nobody has said otherwise.

Similarly, it's not ok to hit people with your car even if you don't kill them, FYI.

I don’t drive. I walk. Trust me the greatest menace on my commute is cyclists.

NP but you’re either an idiot or a liar.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love for just one cyclist to stop at red lights when pedestrians are in a crosswalk that crosses a bike lane. The cars on the other side of the flex posts seem to be able to stop at this light almost all the time. I've seen just one car driver run the light in 20 years when I've been crossing. The cyclists act like the light and the pedestrians don't even exist. The intersection was safer for pedestrians before they put the bike lanes in 10 or so years ago.

lol. is there an epidemic of pedestrians being killed by bikes?

It’s not OK to hit people with your bike even if you don’t kill them, FYI.

Nobody has said otherwise.

Similarly, it's not ok to hit people with your car even if you don't kill them, FYI.

I don’t drive. I walk. Trust me the greatest menace on my commute is cyclists.

NP but you’re either an idiot or a liar.

OP but my commute is on a mixed use trail and across a street with a protected bike lane.