Bike lanes that literally no one uses -- why are we still doing this?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

Hate this aspect of Amsterdam. Pedestrians are routinely put at risk as they have to cross the "bike highways" to get out of the street before the light changes, or are being dropped off somewhere by their uber. Definitely not relaxing to go walking down the street.

And somehow the Dutch have survived. Everyone rides a bike in Holland. Drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists are all the same people at different times of the day. Everyone understands the norms and rules. It's only self-absorbed tourists that don't understand what's what.

That being said, DC will never be Amsterdam. And it's delusional to think otherwise. The bicycle mafia in DC - all twelve of them - are a huge hindrance to the efficient movement of people in DC. Their preciousness and their influence over the DC Council has been an enormous burden on the quality of life in DC. Invest in public transportation. It's not complicated. Why do a handful of rando cyclists have so much sway over a metropolitan area of 6.5 million people?

DC will never be Amsterdam as long as the city has a self-centered, visionless mayor who derives her positions from the direction of the breeze, as long as the director of transportation knows nothing about transportation policy other than what she is told over the phone by random real estate developers, as long as the constituencies served by a handful of DC council members include large portions of counties across Maryland and Virginia, and as long as upgrades of DC’s transportation infrastructure to safeguard the lives of DC residents are viciously opposed by a cabal of freaks who have been singing plaintive dirges for the past 53 years in memory of the death of the Three Sisters Bridge project.

But mostly because we have a hilly terrain, sprawl, icy winters, and hot and humid summers.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

e-bikes are the game changer you are looking for

I'd still be sweaty when I got to the office. No thx

Have you ever ridden an e-bike? It’s no more strenuous than getting in and out of your car.

With a helmet on in August? Not going to happen for most professionals.

A lot of professionals I know have no issues donning a helmet in August or any other time of the year. Those professionals who feel the need to showcase all their success by haute couture and six figure rides are a different matter, of course.

I work in a 500 person law firm and can count on one hand how many people bike to work. Sometimes on one finger. Progressives have this weird tendency to try to make other people disbelieve what they can see to be true with their own eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

e-bikes are the game changer you are looking for

I'd still be sweaty when I got to the office. No thx

Have you ever ridden an e-bike? It’s no more strenuous than getting in and out of your car.

With a helmet on in August? Not going to happen for most professionals.

A lot of professionals I know have no issues donning a helmet in August or any other time of the year. Those professionals who feel the need to showcase all their success by haute couture and six figure rides are a different matter, of course.

I work in a 500 person law firm and can count on one hand how many people bike to work. Sometimes on one finger. Progressives have this weird tendency to try to make other people disbelieve what they can see to be true with their own eyes.

Tbf I think the bike lobby is particularly special in this regard.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

Hate this aspect of Amsterdam. Pedestrians are routinely put at risk as they have to cross the "bike highways" to get out of the street before the light changes, or are being dropped off somewhere by their uber. Definitely not relaxing to go walking down the street.

And somehow the Dutch have survived. Everyone rides a bike in Holland. Drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists are all the same people at different times of the day. Everyone understands the norms and rules. It's only self-absorbed tourists that don't understand what's what.

That being said, DC will never be Amsterdam. And it's delusional to think otherwise. The bicycle mafia in DC - all twelve of them - are a huge hindrance to the efficient movement of people in DC. Their preciousness and their influence over the DC Council has been an enormous burden on the quality of life in DC. Invest in public transportation. It's not complicated. Why do a handful of rando cyclists have so much sway over a metropolitan area of 6.5 million people?

DC will never be Amsterdam as long as the city has a self-centered, visionless mayor who derives her positions from the direction of the breeze, as long as the director of transportation knows nothing about transportation policy other than what she is told over the phone by random real estate developers, as long as the constituencies served by a handful of DC council members include large portions of counties across Maryland and Virginia, and as long as upgrades of DC’s transportation infrastructure to safeguard the lives of DC residents are viciously opposed by a cabal of freaks who have been singing plaintive dirges for the past 53 years in memory of the death of the Three Sisters Bridge project.

But mostly because we have a hilly terrain, sprawl, icy winters, and hot and humid summers.

I lived in Holland for years. The winters are worse than DC and the summers are not much better. It is flatter, but - with a couple of exceptions - DC hills are perfectly bikeable even without electric assistance.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

e-bikes are the game changer you are looking for

I'd still be sweaty when I got to the office. No thx

Have you ever ridden an e-bike? It’s no more strenuous than getting in and out of your car.

With a helmet on in August? Not going to happen for most professionals.

A lot of professionals I know have no issues donning a helmet in August or any other time of the year. Those professionals who feel the need to showcase all their success by haute couture and six figure rides are a different matter, of course.

I work in a 500 person law firm and can count on one hand how many people bike to work. Sometimes on one finger. Progressives have this weird tendency to try to make other people disbelieve what they can see to be true with their own eyes.

Nice anecdata. I work in a building with a couple of thousands professionals. Bikes outnumber cars most months in the parking garage.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

e-bikes are the game changer you are looking for

I'd still be sweaty when I got to the office. No thx

Have you ever ridden an e-bike? It’s no more strenuous than getting in and out of your car.

With a helmet on in August? Not going to happen for most professionals.

A lot of professionals I know have no issues donning a helmet in August or any other time of the year. Those professionals who feel the need to showcase all their success by haute couture and six figure rides are a different matter, of course.

I work in a 500 person law firm and can count on one hand how many people bike to work. Sometimes on one finger. Progressives have this weird tendency to try to make other people disbelieve what they can see to be true with their own eyes.

Nice anecdata. I work in a building with a couple of thousands professionals. Bikes outnumber cars most months in the parking garage.

"Nice anecdata. Here's my own anecdata that is hilariously untrue."

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

I see cyclists put children in spectacularly dangerous situations on a fairly regular basis. I saw one with an infant in the basket on the front of her bike. It would be great if they could be readily identified to the police.

That person should be arrested for child endangerment.

It's curious how, if you put a 10 year old in the front seat of a car, people would think you're wildly irresponsible and almost no parent would even think to do it, even though that kid is strapped down with a seat belt, there's at least one airbag protecting them and there's two tons of steel around them. But no one bats at eye if you do this:

https://bunchbike.com/products/the-original-4-upgraded-electric-cargo-bike-for-families?srsltid=AfmBOopgF9JVUlhcWqgtCDCqzR1K5nGzwExl3YLCVcHVTkWkoYIYQ6iW

If you only drive 15 mph I wouldn't think it's unsafe. Are you unclear on the differences between driving and biking??

And what happens when this bicyclist going 15 mph is hit by a car going 30 mph? All those kids are dead.

Sounds like a good argument for protected bike lanes until drivers can get themselves under control.

It’s not drivers’ fault that the design of these bikes is completely nuts. There are so many ways for children to be paralyzed or killed that these bikes should be outlawed.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

e-bikes are the game changer you are looking for

I'd still be sweaty when I got to the office. No thx

Have you ever ridden an e-bike? It’s no more strenuous than getting in and out of your car.

With a helmet on in August? Not going to happen for most professionals.

A lot of professionals I know have no issues donning a helmet in August or any other time of the year. Those professionals who feel the need to showcase all their success by haute couture and six figure rides are a different matter, of course.

I work in a 500 person law firm and can count on one hand how many people bike to work. Sometimes on one finger. Progressives have this weird tendency to try to make other people disbelieve what they can see to be true with their own eyes.

Nice anecdata. I work in a building with a couple of thousands professionals. Bikes outnumber cars most months in the parking garage.

Also, the border is secure.

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Anonymous wrote:The city is removing a protected bike lane. Good start.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/12/arizona-bike-lane-dc/

DOT says people weren't using it.

DOT saying bike lanes aren't being used is like the pope declaring himself an atheist

The tide is starting to turn. Even DOT has to recognize reality at some point

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

I see cyclists put children in spectacularly dangerous situations on a fairly regular basis. I saw one with an infant in the basket on the front of her bike. It would be great if they could be readily identified to the police.

That person should be arrested for child endangerment.

It's curious how, if you put a 10 year old in the front seat of a car, people would think you're wildly irresponsible and almost no parent would even think to do it, even though that kid is strapped down with a seat belt, there's at least one airbag protecting them and there's two tons of steel around them. But no one bats at eye if you do this:

https://bunchbike.com/products/the-original-4-upgraded-electric-cargo-bike-for-families?srsltid=AfmBOopgF9JVUlhcWqgtCDCqzR1K5nGzwExl3YLCVcHVTkWkoYIYQ6iW

If you only drive 15 mph I wouldn't think it's unsafe. Are you unclear on the differences between driving and biking??

And what happens when this bicyclist going 15 mph is hit by a car going 30 mph? All those kids are dead.

Sounds like a good argument for protected bike lanes until drivers can get themselves under control.

It’s not drivers’ fault that the design of these bikes is completely nuts. There are so many ways for children to be paralyzed or killed that these bikes should be outlawed.

Someone rightly pointed out up thread that it's irresponsible drivers who are the problem. Nothing wrong with the bikes without you nut jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

I see cyclists put children in spectacularly dangerous situations on a fairly regular basis. I saw one with an infant in the basket on the front of her bike. It would be great if they could be readily identified to the police.

That person should be arrested for child endangerment.

It's curious how, if you put a 10 year old in the front seat of a car, people would think you're wildly irresponsible and almost no parent would even think to do it, even though that kid is strapped down with a seat belt, there's at least one airbag protecting them and there's two tons of steel around them. But no one bats at eye if you do this:

https://bunchbike.com/products/the-original-4-upgraded-electric-cargo-bike-for-families?srsltid=AfmBOopgF9JVUlhcWqgtCDCqzR1K5nGzwExl3YLCVcHVTkWkoYIYQ6iW

If you only drive 15 mph I wouldn't think it's unsafe. Are you unclear on the differences between driving and biking??

And what happens when this bicyclist going 15 mph is hit by a car going 30 mph? All those kids are dead.

Sounds like a good argument for protected bike lanes until drivers can get themselves under control.

It’s not drivers’ fault that the design of these bikes is completely nuts. There are so many ways for children to be paralyzed or killed that these bikes should be outlawed.

Someone rightly pointed out up thread that it's irresponsible drivers who are the problem. Nothing wrong with the bikes without you nut jobs.

In the absence of cars, you bikers would turn on each other, or pedestrians, as the scourge.

I was walking out dog last month and I saw to idiots on bikes both run stop signs at 39th and Upton streets last year. They crashed into each other and both came off their bikes. Then they started yelling at each other about whose fault it was. It was hilarious. I applauded. Then one of them threatened to kill me.


Nice people you cyclists are.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

e-bikes are the game changer you are looking for

I'd still be sweaty when I got to the office. No thx

Have you ever ridden an e-bike? It’s no more strenuous than getting in and out of your car.

With a helmet on in August? Not going to happen for most professionals.

A lot of professionals I know have no issues donning a helmet in August or any other time of the year. Those professionals who feel the need to showcase all their success by haute couture and six figure rides are a different matter, of course.

I work in a 500 person law firm and can count on one hand how many people bike to work. Sometimes on one finger. Progressives have this weird tendency to try to make other people disbelieve what they can see to be true with their own eyes.

Nice anecdata. I work in a building with a couple of thousands professionals. Bikes outnumber cars most months in the parking garage.

“I reject your anecdata, and hereby substitute my own anecdata!


Very credible 😏

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

I see cyclists put children in spectacularly dangerous situations on a fairly regular basis. I saw one with an infant in the basket on the front of her bike. It would be great if they could be readily identified to the police.

That person should be arrested for child endangerment.

It's curious how, if you put a 10 year old in the front seat of a car, people would think you're wildly irresponsible and almost no parent would even think to do it, even though that kid is strapped down with a seat belt, there's at least one airbag protecting them and there's two tons of steel around them. But no one bats at eye if you do this:

https://bunchbike.com/products/the-original-4-upgraded-electric-cargo-bike-for-families?srsltid=AfmBOopgF9JVUlhcWqgtCDCqzR1K5nGzwExl3YLCVcHVTkWkoYIYQ6iW

If you only drive 15 mph I wouldn't think it's unsafe. Are you unclear on the differences between driving and biking??

And what happens when this bicyclist going 15 mph is hit by a car going 30 mph? All those kids are dead.

Sounds like a good argument for protected bike lanes until drivers can get themselves under control.

It’s not drivers’ fault that the design of these bikes is completely nuts. There are so many ways for children to be paralyzed or killed that these bikes should be outlawed.

Someone rightly pointed out up thread that it's irresponsible drivers who are the problem. Nothing wrong with the bikes without you nut jobs.

In the absence of cars, you bikers would turn on each other, or pedestrians, as the scourge.

I was walking out dog last month and I saw to idiots on bikes both run stop signs at 39th and Upton streets last year. They crashed into each other and both came off their bikes. Then they started yelling at each other about whose fault it was. It was hilarious. I applauded. Then one of them threatened to kill me.


Nice people you cyclists are.

The nobody bikes people sure do seem to observe a lot of bikes.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.

Hate this aspect of Amsterdam. Pedestrians are routinely put at risk as they have to cross the "bike highways" to get out of the street before the light changes, or are being dropped off somewhere by their uber. Definitely not relaxing to go walking down the street.

And somehow the Dutch have survived. Everyone rides a bike in Holland. Drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists are all the same people at different times of the day. Everyone understands the norms and rules. It's only self-absorbed tourists that don't understand what's what.

That being said, DC will never be Amsterdam. And it's delusional to think otherwise. The bicycle mafia in DC - all twelve of them - are a huge hindrance to the efficient movement of people in DC. Their preciousness and their influence over the DC Council has been an enormous burden on the quality of life in DC. Invest in public transportation. It's not complicated. Why do a handful of rando cyclists have so much sway over a metropolitan area of 6.5 million people?

DC will never be Amsterdam as long as the city has a self-centered, visionless mayor who derives her positions from the direction of the breeze, as long as the director of transportation knows nothing about transportation policy other than what she is told over the phone by random real estate developers, as long as the constituencies served by a handful of DC council members include large portions of counties across Maryland and Virginia, and as long as upgrades of DC’s transportation infrastructure to safeguard the lives of DC residents are viciously opposed by a cabal of freaks who have been singing plaintive dirges for the past 53 years in memory of the death of the Three Sisters Bridge project.

But mostly because we have a hilly terrain, sprawl, icy winters, and hot and humid summers.

I lived in Holland for years. The winters are worse than DC and the summers are not much better. It is flatter, but - with a couple of exceptions - DC hills are perfectly bikeable even without electric assistance.

If the average European could afford an SUV and petrol we’d be driving them everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance.

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats.

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist.

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road.

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists?

I see cyclists put children in spectacularly dangerous situations on a fairly regular basis. I saw one with an infant in the basket on the front of her bike. It would be great if they could be readily identified to the police.

That person should be arrested for child endangerment.

It's curious how, if you put a 10 year old in the front seat of a car, people would think you're wildly irresponsible and almost no parent would even think to do it, even though that kid is strapped down with a seat belt, there's at least one airbag protecting them and there's two tons of steel around them. But no one bats at eye if you do this:

https://bunchbike.com/products/the-original-4-upgraded-electric-cargo-bike-for-families?srsltid=AfmBOopgF9JVUlhcWqgtCDCqzR1K5nGzwExl3YLCVcHVTkWkoYIYQ6iW

If you only drive 15 mph I wouldn't think it's unsafe. Are you unclear on the differences between driving and biking??

And what happens when this bicyclist going 15 mph is hit by a car going 30 mph? All those kids are dead.

Sounds like a good argument for protected bike lanes until drivers can get themselves under control.

It’s not drivers’ fault that the design of these bikes is completely nuts. There are so many ways for children to be paralyzed or killed that these bikes should be outlawed.

Someone rightly pointed out up thread that it's irresponsible drivers who are the problem. Nothing wrong with the bikes without you nut jobs.

In the absence of cars, you bikers would turn on each other, or pedestrians, as the scourge.

I was walking out dog last month and I saw to idiots on bikes both run stop signs at 39th and Upton streets last year. They crashed into each other and both came off their bikes. Then they started yelling at each other about whose fault it was. It was hilarious. I applauded. Then one of them threatened to kill me.


Nice people you cyclists are.

Yes, it’s true, everyone who rides a bike is responsible for the behavior of other person who rides a bike. I assume the same goes for people who drive cars? I’ve never seen anyone do anything rude or dangerous in one of those.