Bikes lanes poorly designed - unsafe for drivers and bikers

[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.

Maybe if people operating cars did a better job of it, they wouldn't need to be "punished" with bike infrastructure.

[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

Pedestrians are also not "lit up properly" at night. If drivers are crashing into pedestrian islands, that just shows how much the islands are needed - though maybe they should be higher/taller? Better a run-over island (and gutted car) than a run-over pedestrian.

I'm also just going to put it out there that drivers always have the choice to wait, instead of driving in the bike lane to go around other drivers.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am a DC resident who will use these and many other bike lanes in DC. And I pay a ton in taxes - more than my share.

[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

LOL. Where is there "less expensive housing" in that neighborhood??

[Anonymous]

Seriously.

[Anonymous]

I ride on these streets a couple times a week and I live in DC. They literally are not finished with the lanes (painting lines today and still have a section to put up barriers). They are fantastic and offer a necessary connection from glover park to tenley.

Now, the way they’ve proceeded has been imperfect. Leaving things half done for months was not good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am a DC resident who will use these and many other bike lanes in DC. And I pay a ton in taxes - more than my share.

I'm sure you are very special but a lot of people pay a lot of taxes to DC that don't use them and don't want our taxes raised to pay for your hobby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am a DC resident who will use these and many other bike lanes in DC. And I pay a ton in taxes - more than my share.

I'm sure you are very special but a lot of people pay a lot of taxes to DC that don't use them and don't want our taxes raised to pay for your hobby.

What about childless people who pay taxes to D.C. which fund schools? Or taxpayers who don’t use sorts facilities? Or careless people who walk to work or take the metro?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am a DC resident who will use these and many other bike lanes in DC. And I pay a ton in taxes - more than my share.

I'm sure you are very special but a lot of people pay a lot of taxes to DC that don't use them and don't want our taxes raised to pay for your hobby.

What about childless people who pay taxes to D.C. which fund schools? Or taxpayers who don’t use sorts facilities? Or careless people who walk to work or take the metro?

*sports
*carless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am a DC resident who will use these and many other bike lanes in DC. And I pay a ton in taxes - more than my share.

I'm sure you are very special but a lot of people pay a lot of taxes to DC that don't use them and don't want our taxes raised to pay for your hobby.

It's not a hobby, its how I get to work. I'm not special at all - I contribute just like everyone else in DC, and I receive services in DC just like everyone else. Some I use - like bike lanes and trash collection...some I do not, like the public schools and the vast majority of the roads. I'm not a king OP, and neither are you - I don't get to dictate that the District abolish every service or budget item I do not use, and neither do you. In the end, it all works out to make a community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am a DC resident who will use these and many other bike lanes in DC. And I pay a ton in taxes - more than my share.

I'm sure you are very special but a lot of people pay a lot of taxes to DC that don't use them and don't want our taxes raised to pay for your hobby.

What about childless people who pay taxes to D.C. which fund schools? Or taxpayers who don’t use sorts facilities? Or careless people who walk to work or take the metro?

None of them want to have their taxes raised to pay for your hobby either.

[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.

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

ok fatty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am a DC resident who will use these and many other bike lanes in DC. And I pay a ton in taxes - more than my share.

I'm sure you are very special but a lot of people pay a lot of taxes to DC that don't use them and don't want our taxes raised to pay for your hobby.

Says the poster whose hobby is bigoted posts about bicycles and the people who use them.

[Anonymous]

Well looks like some of you got your wish. The Transportation Director is leaving. You bike advocates will have your big chance now.

[Anonymous]

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