Bike lanes that literally no one uses -- why are we still doing this?

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Anonymous wrote:The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers. My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods. The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.

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Anonymous wrote:The irony of complaining about traffic while driving even though you are the traffic.

There wasn’t any traffic until we took away one lane in each direction on a four lane road and made them bike lanes. Then suddenly, there was traffic. Weird how that happened, huh?

AZ Ave never was a four lane road. But then you know that.

Few and far between are the cases when lanes are taken away for bike lanes. Rather, bike lanes are more commonly installed by: (i) narrowing overly-wide lanes which encourage speeding; or (ii) removing on-street parking, which usually improves traffic flow. I suspect you knew this also.

The claim that bike lanes is a common cause of traffic jams is so ridiculous that it barely warrants dignifying. Last I checked, no bike lanes have been installed on 495. Yet it’s clogged every rush hour. At this point, denying induced demand is akin to flat-eartherism.

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Anonymous wrote:The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers. My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods. The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.

The VA <-> MD transit traffic is a pox unto NW DC. This relentless stream of speeding vehicles destroys local roads, endangers local residents, pollutes the local environment, and - through the incessant honking of entitled sh*tbags enraged by any other driver who doesn’t drive recklessly enough - destroys the quality of life of an otherwise pleasant area, while giving absolutely nothing back to the city. The notion - advanced by some on here - that DC local government officials should encourage this plague is absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:The irony of complaining about traffic while driving even though you are the traffic.

There wasn’t any traffic until we took away one lane in each direction on a four lane road and made them bike lanes. Then suddenly, there was traffic. Weird how that happened, huh?

AZ Ave never was a four lane road. But then you know that.

Few and far between are the cases when lanes are taken away for bike lanes. Rather, bike lanes are more commonly installed by: (i) narrowing overly-wide lanes which encourage speeding; or (ii) removing on-street parking, which usually improves traffic flow. I suspect you knew this also.

The claim that bike lanes is a common cause of traffic jams is so ridiculous that it barely warrants dignifying. Last I checked, no bike lanes have been installed on 495. Yet it’s clogged every rush hour. At this point, denying induced demand is akin to flat-eartherism.

If traffic jams were really your concern you would advocate for banning street parking and replacing it with bike/bus lanes as appropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers. My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods. The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.

The VA <-> MD transit traffic is a pox unto NW DC. This relentless stream of speeding vehicles destroys local roads, endangers local residents, pollutes the local environment, and - through the incessant honking of entitled sh*tbags enraged by any other driver who doesn’t drive recklessly enough - destroys the quality of life of an otherwise pleasant area, while giving absolutely nothing back to the city. The notion - advanced by some on here - that DC local government officials should encourage this plague is absurd.

Homeless and violent drug addict voucher residents have destroyed the quality of life in our NW neighborhood. I’ll take my chances with the drivers who spend money in DC and support CRE.

[Anonymous]

I use them, but I'm still terrified of being hit by a distracted driver. The end of bike lanes means the end of road biking for me.

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Anonymous wrote:The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers. My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods. The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.

The VA <-> MD transit traffic is a pox unto NW DC. This relentless stream of speeding vehicles destroys local roads, endangers local residents, pollutes the local environment, and - through the incessant honking of entitled sh*tbags enraged by any other driver who doesn’t drive recklessly enough - destroys the quality of life of an otherwise pleasant area, while giving absolutely nothing back to the city. The notion - advanced by some on here - that DC local government officials should encourage this plague is absurd.

I live in MoCo between DC and the Beltway and can say the same about the DC drivers who recklessly cut through my neighborhood everyday.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

It took the cops 17 months to identify a cyclist who had groped at least 10 women. They never got a good look at him because he would speed off. If he had a license plate, it wouldn't have taken 17 months to figure out who he was and a lot of sexual assaults could have been prevented.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The irony of complaining about traffic while driving even though you are the traffic.

There wasn’t any traffic until we took away one lane in each direction on a four lane road and made them bike lanes. Then suddenly, there was traffic. Weird how that happened, huh?

Bike lanes don’t create traffic. What creates traffic is people driving their cars when they have the option to walk, bike, e-bike, scooter, moped, bus, or metro. What alleviates traffic is making it easier, cheaper, and safer to do any one of these things instead of driving. The advocacy of you and your fellow nincompoops from the misnomered “DC Safe Streets Coalition” can only serve to worsen traffic congestion on DC streets and make them less safe.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

It took the cops 17 months to identify a cyclist who had groped at least 10 women. They never got a good look at him because he would speed off. If he had a license plate, it wouldn't have taken 17 months to figure out who he was and a lot of sexual assaults could have been prevented.

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Sanity wins.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers. My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods. The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.

The VA <-> MD transit traffic is a pox unto NW DC. This relentless stream of speeding vehicles destroys local roads, endangers local residents, pollutes the local environment, and - through the incessant honking of entitled sh*tbags enraged by any other driver who doesn’t drive recklessly enough - destroys the quality of life of an otherwise pleasant area, while giving absolutely nothing back to the city. The notion - advanced by some on here - that DC local government officials should encourage this plague is absurd.

Homeless and violent drug addict voucher residents have destroyed the quality of life in our NW neighborhood. I’ll take my chances with the drivers who spend money in DC and support CRE.

Folks commuting between MD and VA via NW DC don’t spend money in the city. That’s the point. Not sure why you like superbugs.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

I see cyclists put children in spectacularly dangerous situations on a fairly regular basis. I saw one with an infant in the basket on the front of her bike. It would be great if they could be readily identified to the police.

I saw someone with a toddler on her handlebars riding on the yellow line between the two lanes of a street named after a state. Insane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers. My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods. The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.

The VA <-> MD transit traffic is a pox unto NW DC. This relentless stream of speeding vehicles destroys local roads, endangers local residents, pollutes the local environment, and - through the incessant honking of entitled sh*tbags enraged by any other driver who doesn’t drive recklessly enough - destroys the quality of life of an otherwise pleasant area, while giving absolutely nothing back to the city. The notion - advanced by some on here - that DC local government officials should encourage this plague is absurd.

Homeless and violent drug addict voucher residents have destroyed the quality of life in our NW neighborhood. I’ll take my chances with the drivers who spend money in DC and support CRE.

Folks commuting between MD and VA via NW DC don’t spend money in the city. That’s the point. Not sure why you like superbugs.

They pay a lot of taxes when they park their cars, buy their meals, and sit in office buildings. Lots and lots of taxes that our Council fritters away on bike lanes and violence interrupters.

[Anonymous]

I love the driver's seat economists here. Just so knowledgeable.

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Anonymous wrote:The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers. My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods. The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.

Virginia drivers are purely punitive on DC residents. They drive fast through DC streets and don't pay taxes here, yet contribute to congestion on the road. And most of the ones driving on Arizona Ave are coming from Maryland, cutting through DC to get home.

The VA <-> MD transit traffic is a pox unto NW DC. This relentless stream of speeding vehicles destroys local roads, endangers local residents, pollutes the local environment, and - through the incessant honking of entitled sh*tbags enraged by any other driver who doesn’t drive recklessly enough - destroys the quality of life of an otherwise pleasant area, while giving absolutely nothing back to the city. The notion - advanced by some on here - that DC local government officials should encourage this plague is absurd.

Homeless and violent drug addict voucher residents have destroyed the quality of life in our NW neighborhood. I’ll take my chances with the drivers who spend money in DC and support CRE.

Folks commuting between MD and VA via NW DC don’t spend money in the city. That’s the point. Not sure why you like superbugs.

They pay a lot of taxes when they park their cars, buy their meals, and sit in office buildings. Lots and lots of taxes that our Council fritters away on bike lanes and violence interrupters.

Do you seriously not understand what it means for someone to commute BETWEEN Maryland AND Virginia??? All of that time huffing carbon monoxide has apparently done a real number on your reading comprehension.