Connecticut Ave bike lanes are back!

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DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

I am not sure there are even dozens of bicyclists on the Avenue each day. Not from my experience.

there would be SO MANY if bike lanes got put in, especially people taking citi bikes and scooters to and from the Zoo, too and from metro.

So instead of walking from the metro they are going to shuttle 15 citibikes up and down 3 blocks? How does that help anything? It costs more money, takes more time, increases traffic, is worse exercise, has a higher carbon footprint and is logistically impossible for a group size greater than 10.

Now we're back to thinking that everyone has your preferences. You would prefer to walk. That's fine.

Not my preferences. It is straight forward logic. Let's pretend that you are a chaperone taking a single class on a visit to the zoo. With additional chaperones we're talking about 30 people. You can have everybody walk 3 blocks for free or you can pay to rent all the citibikes at the metro and still not have enough for everyone.

so logical: “there’s one group of people whoe wouldn’t bike; therefore nobody will!”

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

You keep saying this and it simply isn't true. The stat you cite was COMMUTING, like daily, downtown. There are still hundreds of cyclists using Connecticut Avenue to go to school and run errands. Those are not factored in the MWCOG survey.

Eh, I don't know; I very much support these bike lanes, but I don't know that there are hundreds of people on bikes on Connecticut for non-commuting purposes. I don't know that the MWCOG survey is the best way to estimate ridership, but how many people are going on short errands in the middle of the day by any mode of transportation, let alone by bike?

Just today I took one trip to a bank, a second trip to the market and a third to grab a sandwich at BreadFurst.

And I saw plenty of others on bikes while I was doing my chores.

"Plenty" on one day is not data.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

I am not sure there are even dozens of bicyclists on the Avenue each day. Not from my experience.

there would be SO MANY if bike lanes got put in, especially people taking citi bikes and scooters to and from the Zoo, too and from metro.

So instead of walking from the metro they are going to shuttle 15 citibikes up and down 3 blocks? How does that help anything? It costs more money, takes more time, increases traffic, is worse exercise, has a higher carbon footprint and is logistically impossible for a group size greater than 10.

How does it take more time?
- three trips back and forth

How does it increase traffic?
- instead of walking they're biking on the road

How is it worse exercise?
- walking the same distance is better for core strength

How is it a higher carbon footprint?
- walking, besides the clothes one is wearing, has a carbon footprint of zero. bicycling uses the same clothes but adds the manufacturing of the bicycle itself

And how is it logistically impossible?
- because someone would have to ride ten bikes at once back to the metro to pick up the second and third batches of kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

I am not sure there are even dozens of bicyclists on the Avenue each day. Not from my experience.

there would be SO MANY if bike lanes got put in, especially people taking citi bikes and scooters to and from the Zoo, too and from metro.

So instead of walking from the metro they are going to shuttle 15 citibikes up and down 3 blocks? How does that help anything? It costs more money, takes more time, increases traffic, is worse exercise, has a higher carbon footprint and is logistically impossible for a group size greater than 10.

Now we're back to thinking that everyone has your preferences. You would prefer to walk. That's fine.

Not my preferences. It is straight forward logic. Let's pretend that you are a chaperone taking a single class on a visit to the zoo. With additional chaperones we're talking about 30 people. You can have everybody walk 3 blocks for free or you can pay to rent all the citibikes at the metro and still not have enough for everyone.

so logical: “there’s one group of people whoe wouldn’t bike; therefore nobody will!”

School groups are the specific group of people that PP mentioned. It's all right there in the previous comments if you would like to follow along.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

You keep saying this and it simply isn't true. The stat you cite was COMMUTING, like daily, downtown. There are still hundreds of cyclists using Connecticut Avenue to go to school and run errands. Those are not factored in the MWCOG survey.

Firstly let's put this straight out in the open. You clearly don't live near or use Connecticut Ave, north of Calvert.

Secondly, the number comes from DDOT which counted the number of bicyclists, just as they did cars. They have never released the exact number but they used a de minimis number of 100 as their estimate. That means we know it is less than 100.

Please remember that all numbers are done on a full year daily average basis.

I actually live on Connecticut Avenue (way farther north than Calvert) and can see how many cyclists there are on a daily basis.

Then you are in desparate need of a full neurological checkup because you're hallucinating "hundreds" of bicyclists on Connecticut every day, rain or shine, summer and winter.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

I am not sure there are even dozens of bicyclists on the Avenue each day. Not from my experience.

there would be SO MANY if bike lanes got put in, especially people taking citi bikes and scooters to and from the Zoo, too and from metro.

So instead of walking from the metro they are going to shuttle 15 citibikes up and down 3 blocks? How does that help anything? It costs more money, takes more time, increases traffic, is worse exercise, has a higher carbon footprint and is logistically impossible for a group size greater than 10.

Now we're back to thinking that everyone has your preferences. You would prefer to walk. That's fine.

Not my preferences. It is straight forward logic. Let's pretend that you are a chaperone taking a single class on a visit to the zoo. With additional chaperones we're talking about 30 people. You can have everybody walk 3 blocks for free or you can pay to rent all the citibikes at the metro and still not have enough for everyone.

Now let's pretend you're one of the millions of zoo visitors who is going to the zoo and is not a chaperone taking a single class.

I'm still walking 3 blocks from the metro because walking is free.

You've created a solution in search of a problem. A statement which is at the very heart of this debate.

That's fine. Nobody is stopping you from choosing to walk. The point is for people to have choices.

At a certain point too many choices becomes untenable. Walk, metro, bus, drive private, ride share. That’s plenty of choices.

And bike. And e-scooter. And skateboard. And wheelchair. And mobility scooter. And... How would there be too many choices, and who gets to decide how many is too many?

Too many choices impacts efficiency and safety. Cars, pedal bikes, e-bikes, standup scooters, mopeds, skateboards, and pedestrians all travel at different speeds, accelerate differently, and require different stopping distances. They can’t all be accommodated safely at one. There should be opportunities to do all of those activities, but certainly not all at once in the same place. That’s just crazy.

The commuting bikers and the athletic bikers can be diverted to RC Park where a dedicated pathway could be built. Other bikers can use the sidewalks. No doubt, the sidewalks can be cleared of excess stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

I am not sure there are even dozens of bicyclists on the Avenue each day. Not from my experience.

there would be SO MANY if bike lanes got put in, especially people taking citi bikes and scooters to and from the Zoo, too and from metro.

I know all those school and tourist buses would suddenly turn into herds of bicyclists.

they would actually.

I am confident that teachers and students in Mont, Fairfax, and PG Counties and elsewhere will be neither biking to or taking Metro to the zoo in the next few decades.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if our ANCs had spent the past five years advocating instead on the crime crisis, school overcrowding, and housing voucher mismanagement. Issues that actually impact the majority of residents along the corridor. What a better place this could be.

Personally I am glad that the ANCs where I am (the Hill) have spent the effort on bike lanes and other vision zero projects. It is SO nice now. C St especially transformed from an ugly 6 ln highway into a really pretty avenue.

Wards 5 and Wards 6 have remarkably improving and solid bike infrastructure. I've been riding around that area increasingly lately and it's wonderful. And tons of peo0le, kids included, using it too.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

You keep saying this and it simply isn't true. The stat you cite was COMMUTING, like daily, downtown. There are still hundreds of cyclists using Connecticut Avenue to go to school and run errands. Those are not factored in the MWCOG survey.

Firstly let's put this straight out in the open. You clearly don't live near or use Connecticut Ave, north of Calvert.

Secondly, the number comes from DDOT which counted the number of bicyclists, just as they did cars. They have never released the exact number but they used a de minimis number of 100 as their estimate. That means we know it is less than 100.

Please remember that all numbers are done on a full year daily average basis.

They counted in the street. Not the sidewalk. Also, they updated that low stat observed in 2019 in like september 2022 and it was far higher by then.

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Put the bike lane on 34th - Reno. If DDOT then could “encourage” more thru vehicle traffic to move off of Reno and back to Connecticut (the major arterial route) that could be be a win-win for several adjacent neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

So when you are stuck behind me in the center lane as I proceed at 12mph up from Calvert Street northbound, you will just flow patiently, right?

The odds of that happening are very low so it's an empty threat.

Why would you say it is low? People like me avoid Connecticut Avenue, but screw it, I will start riding it again and let the chips fall where they will.

Opposing this basic 21st century infrastructure for a 1950's parking paradigm is about the stupidest thing I have seen.

Good news. We fixed the 1950’s paradigm in the 1980’s when we spent billions on the red line. I use it every weekday and you should too.

It is faster, easier and healthier for me to bike than make my way to a metro station and ride to a place and then walk/bike to my destination, which may or may not be on top of a metro.

I could say the same thing about you and driving, no?

No you couldn’t. I walk 15 minutes to the Metro stations each day on both ends of my commute. I understand the world does not revolve around me.

But you have no capacity to support making the world safer for others.

Some parents on the cut through streets would like a word.

That isn't an argument. The freaking cut through happens either way. This is about parking or bike lane in the residual space. The road is going to 4 lanes no matter what for car travel lanes.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic


So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes. Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections. So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted. DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.

The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.

There aren't enough bicylists to matter. There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.

My opinion is irrelevent. The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.

You keep saying this and it simply isn't true. The stat you cite was COMMUTING, like daily, downtown. There are still hundreds of cyclists using Connecticut Avenue to go to school and run errands. Those are not factored in the MWCOG survey.

Firstly let's put this straight out in the open. You clearly don't live near or use Connecticut Ave, north of Calvert.

Secondly, the number comes from DDOT which counted the number of bicyclists, just as they did cars. They have never released the exact number but they used a de minimis number of 100 as their estimate. That means we know it is less than 100.

Please remember that all numbers are done on a full year daily average basis.

They counted in the street. Not the sidewalk. Also, they updated that low stat observed in 2019 in like september 2022 and it was far higher by then.

Tell us the number then

[Anonymous]

Change the name of this thread to “Connecticut Ave bike lanes are dead!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put the bike lane on 34th - Reno. If DDOT then could “encourage” more thru vehicle traffic to move off of Reno and back to Connecticut (the major arterial route) that could be be a win-win for several adjacent neighborhoods.

Cleveland Park and North Cleveland Park residents advocated for decades to get the turn lanes on 34th/Reno. They are not going away anytime soon and particularly not for bike lanes that have no commercial activity and do not connect from one place to another.

[Anonymous]

What’s the fixation with bike lanes on Connecticut? Wisconsin makes more sense for all the bike to neighborhood businesses and schools advocates. There are more students attending schools along the Wisconsin corridor and tons of businesses and a library to frequent. Let’s put dedicated bike lanes from Friendship Heights to Georgetown along Wisconsin. Makes much more sense.