Question for the anti-bike / anti-bus people

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

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Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

DP. Well that much is abundantly clear. I've seen better command of logic and rhetoric at middle school forensics competitions, and yet you feel that you're in a position to condescend. Yikes...

I know understand what your deal is. You think that life is high school debate club and that facts are malleable in service of some sort of “argument”. I am sorry to disappoint you, but sometimes facts are just facts. Like the fact that the majority of DC residents use cars to get to work in the year 2022. Apparently this is an inconvenient fact to you, but you know, sometimes the truth is scary and we have have to deal with it.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

DP. Well that much is abundantly clear. I've seen better command of logic and rhetoric at middle school forensics competitions, and yet you feel that you're in a position to condescend. Yikes...

I know understand what your deal is. You think that life is high school debate club and that facts are malleable in service of some sort of “argument”. I am sorry to disappoint you, but sometimes facts are just facts. Like the fact that the majority of DC residents use cars to get to work in the year 2022. Apparently this is an inconvenient fact to you, but you know, sometimes the truth is scary and we have have to deal with it.

My "deal" is that in a discussion - like the one you are currently participating in - assertions must be supported by facts. You have provided none relevant to this discussion. I understand why you can't, of course, and are instead plugging your ears, stamping your feet, and screaming that the facts on your side, even when they are plainly not. But don't turn around and act surprised when nobody takes you seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

Two facts: (1) The 49% figure does not exist - not in the MWCOG survey or anywhere else. (2) DC residents are not the same as residents of the "National Capital Area".

You're right about one thing though. You don't have an argument. Just a lot of pretentious nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

Two facts: (1) The 49% figure does not exist - not in the MWCOG survey or anywhere else. (2) DC residents are not the same as residents of the "National Capital Area".

You're right about one thing though. You don't have an argument. Just a lot of pretentious nonsense.

There's more cars registered with the city than there are households, and there are so few bicyclists the city's stats usually puts them in a miscellaneous category.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

Two facts: (1) The 49% figure does not exist - not in the MWCOG survey or anywhere else. (2) DC residents are not the same as residents of the "National Capital Area".

You're right about one thing though. You don't have an argument. Just a lot of pretentious nonsense.

There's more cars registered with the city than there are households, and there are so few bicyclists the city's stats usually puts them in a miscellaneous category.

There are more guns than people in the country, but not everyone has them. What’s your point?

And your second point is verifiably wrong.

[Anonymous]

This is why I don't trust the anti-bike people as actually caring about disabled or low income people. They're selfish liars.

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I don't trust the anti-bike people as actually caring about disabled or low income people. They're selfish liars.

+100

[Anonymous]

Busses are so incredibly unreliable. There has to be a way where you don’t run empty buses every thirty - unpredictable - minutes: I bet if the bus came more frequently and consistently, it would be utilized more. Until such time; I have no choice but drive, I don’t live near a metro.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with buses. They help make the city more accessible for a wide range of people. Bikers on the other hand are mostly middle-aged entitled male a-holes who spend way too much money on their ridiculous outfits as if they were lance armstrong and then break every traffic law and endanger us all and act like they are the aggrieved ones. They are seriously the absolute worst.

You clearly don't get off of MacArthur Boulevard very often if this is your view of people who ride bikes in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with buses. They help make the city more accessible for a wide range of people. Bikers on the other hand are mostly middle-aged entitled male a-holes who spend way too much money on their ridiculous outfits as if they were lance armstrong and then break every traffic law and endanger us all and act like they are the aggrieved ones. They are seriously the absolute worst.

All of you in Ward 3 are like that. Drivers even worse. Heck even the bus riders are probably scheming something.

But if you'd get outside your bubble you'd see other parts of the city and other people riding bikes.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

DP. Well that much is abundantly clear. I've seen better command of logic and rhetoric at middle school forensics competitions, and yet you feel that you're in a position to condescend. Yikes...

I know understand what your deal is. You think that life is high school debate club and that facts are malleable in service of some sort of “argument”. I am sorry to disappoint you, but sometimes facts are just facts. Like the fact that the majority of DC residents use cars to get to work in the year 2022. Apparently this is an inconvenient fact to you, but you know, sometimes the truth is scary and we have have to deal with it.

NP here, but the fact that most D.C. residents use cars to get to work doesn't automatically mean all transportation policy should be oriented around encouraging driving. Part of the point of changing road design is to make it easier for people who can drive less to do so. Starting from that premise, it doesn't matter that more people drive than bike or take transit.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

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Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

Two facts: (1) The 49% figure does not exist - not in the MWCOG survey or anywhere else. (2) DC residents are not the same as residents of the "National Capital Area".

You're right about one thing though. You don't have an argument. Just a lot of pretentious nonsense.

There's more cars registered with the city than there are households, and there are so few bicyclists the city's stats usually puts them in a miscellaneous category.

More cars than households only proves that some households have more than one car.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

Just for the sake of pedantry, I feel compelled to point out that 49 percent is still a minority.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

Two facts: (1) The 49% figure does not exist - not in the MWCOG survey or anywhere else. (2) DC residents are not the same as residents of the "National Capital Area".

You're right about one thing though. You don't have an argument. Just a lot of pretentious nonsense.

There's more cars registered with the city than there are households, and there are so few bicyclists the city's stats usually puts them in a miscellaneous category.

More cars than households only proves that some households have more than one car.

And some have 4 or 5.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to support bikers and alternative methods of transportation, but the infrastructure is inadequate to do this safely and bikers want it both ways - obey the traffic laws when it’s in their interest and not when it’s not. Bikers traveling quickly alongside cars, darting out between cars, and not obeying road signs is anxiety provoking. Also, sometimes I just do not see them. If bikers are in the countryside on a heavily traveled road, like Georgetown Pike, they’re taking their lives in their hands. People don’t want to travel the Pike at 15mph and going around them can be treacherous and unreasonable with high traffic levels. Again, I want to support bikers, but I find that their presence on roadways is anxiety-provoking and oftentimes dangerous.

This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes.

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters?

You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

I

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do.

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro.

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.

It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG.

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.

MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys.

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.

I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL.

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.

If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way.

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.

Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there.

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?

I don’t have “an argument”. I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up.

Two facts: (1) The 49% figure does not exist - not in the MWCOG survey or anywhere else. (2) DC residents are not the same as residents of the "National Capital Area".

You're right about one thing though. You don't have an argument. Just a lot of pretentious nonsense.

There's more cars registered with the city than there are households, and there are so few bicyclists the city's stats usually puts them in a miscellaneous category.

More cars than households only proves that some households have more than one car.

And some have 4 or 5.

Not to mention that the profoundly ignorant PP also wants to pretend that taxis, rental cars, trucks, delivery vans, buses, police cars, and the DC government's motor pool do not exist.