Yeah, he's basically the stereotype of the "avid cyclist." He doesn't feel a need for safe, comfortable bike infrastructure on Connecticut Ave, therefore there is no need. But there are lots of other people, who aren't him, who would bike on Connecticut Ave if there were safe, comfortable bike infrastructure on Connecticut Ave. It's really disappointing that he doesn't get that. |
I drive a hybrid vehicle, and will never, like the vast majority of other dc residents, use a bicycle as my primary method of transportation. I am disabled and the bike lobby doesn’t care about anyone but themselves. They have proven themselves to be a self centered entitled bunch of jerks. Sore losers, all. |
We could ban all gas cars in the US tomorrow and it wouldn’t materially improve climate change. Everyone knows it’s the coal fired plants in the developing world that are the main driver. Bike lanes for safety reasons? Ok, you can make that argument. But spare us the lecture on climate change. |
Yes, because boomers cannot fathom that the life they grew up with and permeates today is not viable in a Climate Change future. We need to focus housing where infrastructure already exists. And we cannot keep promoting an auto-centric world for our urban areas. |
Except there is no proof, none, that bike lanes are bad for business. In fact, the opposite is true. So it is just more BS from the opponents. |
Quite the opposite. If there is good biking infrastructure, more people will bike which in turns, opens up more space on the roads and for parking than now. |
Yeah, every study has found that bike lanes are good for business. As for the assertion that business owners should know what's good for business - how would business owners know how their customers get there? No business owner has ever asked me whether I walked, biked, rode transit, or drove to their business. And, in fact, other studies have found that business owners tend to greatly overestimate the percentage of their customers who arrive by car. |
Yeah, you've posted about your hybrid, repeatedly. Hybrid vehicles use less gasoline, which is good, but other than that, hybrid vehicles create all the same environmental harms as gasoline vehicles. Plus, you don't have to use a bicycle as your primary method of transportation to benefit. In fact, the more people bike, the fewer people you will sit in traffic with when you drive. However, it would be a mistake to assume that there are no disabled people in the All-Powerful Bicycle Lobby and/or that the All-Powerful Bicycle Lobby has no disabled people. Not all disabled people can bike, but there are disabled people who cannot drive but can bike. Here's one: https://annazivarts.com/ Now, have the needs of disabled people (including disabled people who bike) always been properly accounted for, by the designers of bike infrastructure, transportation departments, and members of the All-Powerful Bicycle Lobby? Absolutely not, to everyone's shame. But that's true for EVERYTHING, not just bike infrastructure. Furthermore, it absolutely is possible to design and build bike infrastructure that properly accounts for the needs of disabled people (including disabled people who bike), and that's what DC should be doing. |
I think the giant anticlimax of pedestrianizing the slip lane ought to really guide the discussion here. We had a giant neighborhood freak out over ONE block of a protected bike lane. It finally went in last summer and guess what, the sky has not fallen and nobody cares. Houses are still being sold on that block at big profits and the ads actually mention the bike lane as an amenity. |
Bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue will not stop climate change, nor will they end racism. |
Small changes are too small, they won't do anything. Big changes are too big, they're not feasible. I'm still waiting to hear if there are any changes that are juuuuuust right. Similarly, we shouldn't do anything now, it's too soon. And after that, we shouldn't do anything, it's too late. |
In fact, guess where the No No Bike Lanes On Connecticut Ave held their sparsely-attended rally? |
The irony is that its usually the business owner/employees that use the street spaces, because they rarely live in the neighborhood. They then project their experience onto their customers. So in reality its the business protecting their own parking, not their customers. |
And the businesses are doing great! |
Bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue are not even a small step towards stopping climate change or ending racism. They are totally irrelevant to those goals. |