Bikes lanes poorly designed - unsafe for drivers and bikers

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

Maybe get off your snippy high horse and recognize that a significant number of people are disabled from using bicycles or bike lanes.

[Anonymous]

Parts of these lanes are badly designed through the city. Bad for pedestrians, bikers and people who sometimes have to use a car.

[Anonymous]

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

How do you know this part? And does it matter? A lot of the people who drive on the roads in D.C. don’t live here, either.

[Anonymous]

The islands are problematic - they make turns to/from New Mexico very difficult. Larger SUVs and trucks can't make the turn. Garbage and delivery trucks must drive over the islands.

Not sure why the city didn't just do a two-way protected cycle track against the eastern curb and then allow cars to park between the cycle track and the flow of traffic (similar to 16th Street NW).

-37th Street Resident

[Anonymous]

I don't know anything about these particular bike lanes, but "The bikers using the bike lanes don't even live in the city and not in the neighborhood." does suggest an anti-bike-lanes-in-general attitude on your part. How many drivers using the general lanes live in the city and/or the neighborhood, and who has expressed concerns about that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Maybe get off your snippy high horse and recognize that a significant number of people are disabled from using bicycles or bike lanes.

Also, a significant number of disabled people are unable to drive.

Also, a significant number of disabled people who use mobility devices use them in bike lanes (when there are bike lanes).

[Anonymous]

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.

I don’t have any DUIs, so I can just drive.

[Anonymous]

Bike lanes are put in mostly because a small group of people wants to punish drivers, so advocates never care how well they are designed for cyclists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are put in mostly because a small group of people wants to punish drivers, so advocates never care how well they are designed for cyclists.

Do you start anti-bike-lane threads on DCUM to give your life purpose and meaning?

[Anonymous]

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.

FWIW, I have also seen cars do this during the day on islands where there are no bike lanes at all (like along River Road near GDS). Not sure this is specifically a bike-lane-related problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

FWIW, I have also seen cars do this during the day on islands where there are no bike lanes at all (like along River Road near GDS). Not sure this is specifically a bike-lane-related problem.

Not to mention all of the knocked-over signs in medians that drivers have hit. Maybe the signs aren't lit up properly?

[Anonymous]

Blaming bikers and the bike lanes for people's horrid driving is quite the tell.

Maybe the people driving shouldn't be crashing into the islands?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

FWIW, I have also seen cars do this during the day on islands where there are no bike lanes at all (like along River Road near GDS). Not sure this is specifically a bike-lane-related problem.

Not to mention all of the knocked-over signs in medians that drivers have hit. Maybe the signs aren't lit up properly?

Or maybe the drivers are just really bad at driving.

Afterall, this is why the bike lanes are needed in the first place.