New bike lane on Old Georgetown Rd in Bethesda

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

You could probably do that in half the time if you biked it. Good for your health and the environment too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love the bike lanes. So much safer and they are used frequently. Stop commuting down old georgetown on your car. The J2 runs riigjt down old georgetown and runs every 8 minutes during rush hour. I take it every day so that I don’t burden the community with my car. It’s not a good commuting route — take public transit or divert to one of the many highways.
Those bike lanes are probably my favorite thing that local government has done in a decade. And I don’t even own a bike!

You are such an a$$ for assuming only white collar people who can take metro use Old Georgetown. Just wow, what an imbecilic comment. I hope next time you jump on a bike, it's missing a seat you pompous a$$hole.

You're either responding to the wrong person or missed this person's entire point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕[/quote

You're DRIVING a 3 mile commute?

I have a 2 mile commute and I walk it. 3 miles is EASILY bikeable. 3 miles isn't worth getting the car out for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

If an extra 10-15 minutes in your car is "misery", what words do you use to describe the feelings of the families of the two boys killed in those two "freak accidents", or of the two drivers who inadvertently killed them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

You're DRIVING a 3 mile commute?

I have a 2 mile commute and I walk it. 3 miles is EASILY bikeable. 3 miles isn't worth getting the car out for.

Yep. 3 miles on a bike should take about 15 minutes. If you don't like getting sweaty or going uphill, consider an e-bike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

If an extra 10-15 minutes in your car is "misery", what words do you use to describe the feelings of the families of the two boys killed in those two "freak accidents", or of the two drivers who inadvertently killed them?

DP. The bike crowd is quick to declare mixed used infrastructure unusable if they ever end up behind a slow walker. We should have the bike lanes, more NIH employees should take the metro, and cyclists should use the bike lanes on the parts of OGR where they exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

You're DRIVING a 3 mile commute?

I have a 2 mile commute and I walk it. 3 miles is EASILY bikeable. 3 miles isn't worth getting the car out for.

Yep. 3 miles on a bike should take about 15 minutes. If you don't like getting sweaty or going uphill, consider an e-bike.

No it’s too dangerous for most of us. I am not an experienced enough biker to drive in this sort of urban area with some patchwork bike lanes. Believe me, you don’t want me out there bike commuting with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car are packed on two lanes in Bethesda, but the shiny new bike lane is empty 99.9% time.

How to make more people to ride a bike?

By providing bike lanes that are safe, comfortable and convenient.

Perhaps you are unaware that those bike lanes were paid for with the lives of two teenage boys. A few seconds of your time in a car is not worth more than their lives. I'm sure you agree.

You mean 2 freak accidents and now tens of thousands of commuters have had their commute turned into misery. Few seconds my a$$. It took 26 minutes to drive 3 miles. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

You're DRIVING a 3 mile commute?

I have a 2 mile commute and I walk it. 3 miles is EASILY bikeable. 3 miles isn't worth getting the car out for.

Yep. 3 miles on a bike should take about 15 minutes. If you don't like getting sweaty or going uphill, consider an e-bike.

No it’s too dangerous for most of us. I am not an experienced enough biker to drive in this sort of urban area with some patchwork bike lanes. Believe me, you don’t want me out there bike commuting with you.

Have you thought about a Confident City Cycling class from WABA?

I agree, though. People will start riding if there are safe, comfortable, connected bike routes. As long as there's just an unconnected patchwork, and most of isn't comfortable, people will continue to depend on their cars even when they would prefer not to.

[Anonymous]

Nope.

Build them all you want—cause even more and more traffic for people who have to go to work for a living in a timely manner.

People who want to get to work and not be a sweaty stinky mess (because let’s face it you are when you show up at the office, so gross!). People who use old Georgetown Road to get from their neighborhood to either 270 or 495 to go to their jobs. Why don’t they live next-door to their jobs? Good question. Jobs move. People change jobs. People have a spouse who works at a job in a different direction. Also, When you don’t have a SAHM in your household, going to and from work often involves taking and picking up a child at daycare or preschool or after school. Taking or picking up dry cleaning. Oh and yes groceries. Grabbing some thing at CVS. Maybe you don’t need a car to take care of all of these things, but obviously there is more than a few of us who do. Get off your high horse!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope.

Build them all you want—cause even more and more traffic for people who have to go to work for a living in a timely manner.

People who want to get to work and not be a sweaty stinky mess (because let’s face it you are when you show up at the office, so gross!). People who use old Georgetown Road to get from their neighborhood to either 270 or 495 to go to their jobs. Why don’t they live next-door to their jobs? Good question. Jobs move. People change jobs. People have a spouse who works at a job in a different direction. Also, When you don’t have a SAHM in your household, going to and from work often involves taking and picking up a child at daycare or preschool or after school. Taking or picking up dry cleaning. Oh and yes groceries. Grabbing some thing at CVS. Maybe you don’t need a car to take care of all of these things, but obviously there is more than a few of us who do. Get off your high horse!

If you want to drive, for whatever reason, then drive. That's fine. Just don't complain about, or block, safe infrastructure for people who don't drive, for whatever reason. Whether they bike, or whether they take the bus, or whether they walk, or whether they anything other than drive themselves in their own cars. Everyone needs to be able to get around safely, not just people who drive themselves in their own cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope.

Build them all you want—cause even more and more traffic for people who have to go to work for a living in a timely manner.

People who want to get to work and not be a sweaty stinky mess (because let’s face it you are when you show up at the office, so gross!). People who use old Georgetown Road to get from their neighborhood to either 270 or 495 to go to their jobs. Why don’t they live next-door to their jobs? Good question. Jobs move. People change jobs. People have a spouse who works at a job in a different direction. Also, When you don’t have a SAHM in your household, going to and from work often involves taking and picking up a child at daycare or preschool or after school. Taking or picking up dry cleaning. Oh and yes groceries. Grabbing some thing at CVS. Maybe you don’t need a car to take care of all of these things, but obviously there is more than a few of us who do. Get off your high horse!

You seem upset

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should ban all cars. Destroy the environment, pump out pollution, and destroy the urban fabric. I have no patience with you bastards complaining about losing one lane, when us pedestrians and cyclists suffer so much disease and death from your selfishness.

I’m going to need you to tear your house down, and live in a lean-to hut made of sticks and leaves in the woods with no sanitation or electricity, and eat only what you can grow or catch around your lean-to hut.

Because otherwise, everything in your life that your currently using and consuming was brought to you by trucks or cars.


When you can survive as a subsistence hunter-gather, you’ll have the moral high ground to do all the complaining you want.


Deal?

And 100 years ago horses delivered ice for your ice box. As if we can’t change from cars and trucks to other modes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should ban all cars. Destroy the environment, pump out pollution, and destroy the urban fabric. I have no patience with you bastards complaining about losing one lane, when us pedestrians and cyclists suffer so much disease and death from your selfishness.

I’m going to need you to tear your house down, and live in a lean-to hut made of sticks and leaves in the woods with no sanitation or electricity, and eat only what you can grow or catch around your lean-to hut.

Because otherwise, everything in your life that your currently using and consuming was brought to you by trucks or cars.


When you can survive as a subsistence hunter-gather, you’ll have the moral high ground to do all the complaining you want.


Deal?

And 100 years ago horses delivered ice for your ice box. As if we can’t change from cars and trucks to other modes.

The trend has been toward using more powerful engines to go faster. Be careful what you wish for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should ban all cars. Destroy the environment, pump out pollution, and destroy the urban fabric. I have no patience with you bastards complaining about losing one lane, when us pedestrians and cyclists suffer so much disease and death from your selfishness.

I’m going to need you to tear your house down, and live in a lean-to hut made of sticks and leaves in the woods with no sanitation or electricity, and eat only what you can grow or catch around your lean-to hut.

Because otherwise, everything in your life that your currently using and consuming was brought to you by trucks or cars.


When you can survive as a subsistence hunter-gather, you’ll have the moral high ground to do all the complaining you want.


Deal?

And 100 years ago horses delivered ice for your ice box. As if we can’t change from cars and trucks to other modes.

The trend has been toward using more powerful engines to go faster. Be careful what you wish for.

The trend has certainly been for the auto industry to try to get people to buy bigger vehicles with bigger engines to support a car-commercial fantasy of going fast on empty roads (and then finding a parking spot immediately in front of your destination). Bigger profits for the auto industry, a bigger death toll for society.