Connecticut Ave bike lanes are back!

[Anonymous]

Oh the irony.

With bike lanes, the buses on Connecticut Avenue would have had the benefit if a curb lane without dodging parked cars. The new DDOT proposal is actually a lot worse for buses, and particularly any bus stuck behind a cyclist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh the irony.

With bike lanes, the buses on Connecticut Avenue would have had the benefit if a curb lane without dodging parked cars. The new DDOT proposal is actually a lot worse for buses, and particularly any bus stuck behind a cyclist.

That wasn’t the Option C design. Get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh the irony.

With bike lanes, the buses on Connecticut Avenue would have had the benefit if a curb lane without dodging parked cars. The new DDOT proposal is actually a lot worse for buses, and particularly any bus stuck behind a cyclist.

That wasn’t the Option C design. Get a life.

The original Concept C had no parking at all - so curb would have been for buses whenever. The modified Concept C compromise plans had the parking on one side of the road at a time, and then on other blocks no parking, so yeah, it literally was. Idiot.

Original Concept C (no parking, so bus at the curb all times):


Compromise Concept C examples:

Where 1 shows where parking is one one side of the road and 2 shows where there is no parking.

Any more lies for tonight you care to spout?

[Anonymous]

“Original Option C” is very LOL. Seriously get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh the irony.

With bike lanes, the buses on Connecticut Avenue would have had the benefit if a curb lane without dodging parked cars. The new DDOT proposal is actually a lot worse for buses, and particularly any bus stuck behind a cyclist.

That wasn’t the Option C design. Get a life.

Uh, yes it was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Original Option C” is very LOL. Seriously get a life.

Sigh.. which is why cycling advocates worked with DDOT and other folks on the compromise version of it.

[Anonymous]

I love biking and bike lanes, but find myself quite content with where we are because of what massive tools the pro side on here have proven to be for well over a year and hundreds of pages

[Anonymous]

Why will it be a good thing for drivers that bikes will now just take the while travel lane to ride this making everyone behind them slow to a crawl? How is that better than a dedicated bike lane?

[Anonymous]

*whole travel lane

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why will it be a good thing for drivers that bikes will now just take the while travel lane to ride this making everyone behind them slow to a crawl? How is that better than a dedicated bike lane?

Its not exactly clear to me, but drivers probably think bike riders will either cease to exist or get in a car instead if there are no bike lanes. Why drivers want more cars on the road with them continues to confound me, so I'm guessing they think they just poof out of existence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why will it be a good thing for drivers that bikes will now just take the while travel lane to ride this making everyone behind them slow to a crawl? How is that better than a dedicated bike lane?

Its not exactly clear to me, but drivers probably think bike riders will either cease to exist or get in a car instead if there are no bike lanes. Why drivers want more cars on the road with them continues to confound me, so I'm guessing they think they just poof out of existence.

Nobody cares because it's a hollow threat. There simply aren't enough bicyclists on Connecticut for any of that to matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why will it be a good thing for drivers that bikes will now just take the while travel lane to ride this making everyone behind them slow to a crawl? How is that better than a dedicated bike lane?

Its not exactly clear to me, but drivers probably think bike riders will either cease to exist or get in a car instead if there are no bike lanes. Why drivers want more cars on the road with them continues to confound me, so I'm guessing they think they just poof out of existence.

No, most of the opponents of the bike lanes here think there ARE no bike riders in the first place to get into a car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why will it be a good thing for drivers that bikes will now just take the while travel lane to ride this making everyone behind them slow to a crawl? How is that better than a dedicated bike lane?

Its not exactly clear to me, but drivers probably think bike riders will either cease to exist or get in a car instead if there are no bike lanes. Why drivers want more cars on the road with them continues to confound me, so I'm guessing they think they just poof out of existence.

Nobody cares because it's a hollow threat. There simply aren't enough bicyclists on Connecticut for any of that to matter.

And yet, without fail, motorists come on to here and other platforms and complain about cyclists riding in the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why will it be a good thing for drivers that bikes will now just take the while travel lane to ride this making everyone behind them slow to a crawl? How is that better than a dedicated bike lane?

Its not exactly clear to me, but drivers probably think bike riders will either cease to exist or get in a car instead if there are no bike lanes. Why drivers want more cars on the road with them continues to confound me, so I'm guessing they think they just poof out of existence.

Nobody cares because it's a hollow threat. There simply aren't enough bicyclists on Connecticut for any of that to matter.

And yet, without fail, motorists come on to here and other platforms and complain about cyclists riding in the street.

You seen to be confusing Connecticut Ave with somewhere else. The only mentions here of bicyclists riding on Connecticut have been from pro-bike lanes people making threats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why will it be a good thing for drivers that bikes will now just take the while travel lane to ride this making everyone behind them slow to a crawl? How is that better than a dedicated bike lane?

Its not exactly clear to me, but drivers probably think bike riders will either cease to exist or get in a car instead if there are no bike lanes. Why drivers want more cars on the road with them continues to confound me, so I'm guessing they think they just poof out of existence.

It's not exactly clear to me, but bike riders seem to think that drivers will either cease to exist or get on a bike instead if we just keep adding to the more than 150 miles of bike lanes DC already has.