Question for the anti-bike / anti-bus people

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

What about taxis and carshares? Is there room for taxis and carshares in your future? If there is not, then that is not a realistic view of the future and making transportation planning decisions based on unrealistic goals is not a good idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

^^ this. A million times this

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

What about taxis and carshares? Is there room for taxis and carshares in your future? If there is not, then that is not a realistic view of the future and making transportation planning decisions based on unrealistic goals is not a good idea.

Car shares added enormously to traffic when they were introduced. They are not a cure-all by any means as they are often driven around without any passengers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

That sounds great, let's focus on the subway. Doesn't mean that we can't also give people who want to bike a scrap of the public land being used by drivers.

[Anonymous]

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Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

All that space? Billions of dollars? On bike lanes? Where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

That sounds great, let's focus on the subway. Doesn't mean that we can't also give people who want to bike a scrap of the public land being used by drivers.

There's more than 100 miles of bike lanes in D.C. As you may have noticed, most of them are rarely used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

That sounds great, let's focus on the subway. Doesn't mean that we can't also give people who want to bike a scrap of the public land being used by drivers.

There's more than 100 miles of bike lanes in D.C. As you may have noticed, most of them are rarely used.

I live on a side street with a view of the 15th street bike lane. I have noticed that it is used incredibly frequently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

That sounds great, let's focus on the subway. Doesn't mean that we can't also give people who want to bike a scrap of the public land being used by drivers.

There's more than 100 miles of bike lanes in D.C. As you may have noticed, most of them are rarely used.

I live on a side street with a view of the 15th street bike lane. I have noticed that it is used incredibly frequently.

Nevermind him, that's just Lying Nick. He makes up dumb stuff and repeats it to try to make it seem true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

That sounds great, let's focus on the subway. Doesn't mean that we can't also give people who want to bike a scrap of the public land being used by drivers.

There's more than 100 miles of bike lanes in D.C. As you may have noticed, most of them are rarely used.

I live on a side street with a view of the 15th street bike lane. I have noticed that it is used incredibly frequently.

And I bet I could find you 100 out of 1,500 miles of roads in DC that are used even less frequently. Should we do away with them?

Also, there are only 24 miles of protected bike lanes in DC and these take up about an eighth of the roadway that run alongside.

It’s very hard to understate how little public space and public funding is allocated towards bike lanes. Those who throw around words like “billions” either are loaded up on dissociative or don’t hold the intellectual capacity of those they are seeking to convince in very high regard.

[Anonymous]

LOL. PP is so unhinged about bicycles that they posted twice revealing their inability to read.

“it is used incredibly frequently” means that it is used a lot, not a little.

Perhaps there is something about bicycles that makes people lose brain cells?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL. PP is so unhinged about bicycles that they posted twice revealing their inability to read.

“it is used incredibly frequently” means that it is used a lot, not a little.

Perhaps there is something about bicycles that makes people lose brain cells?

Read fine to me. PP and PP above that were agreeing with PP that each were quoting. Which was calling the person out who said billions are spent on bike lanes. Because that's just stupid. Like, intensely stupid. Most of the ~100 miles of bike lanes in the city are just paint. Paint is pretty damn cheap last I checked and the labor to repaint a road takes all of a day or so.

I 'd wager good money that the city has spent more on the Mass Ave resurfacing & road bed project in the last year than it's spent on ALL bike related infrastructure ever.

[Anonymous]

Remote work is the best solution

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus. I support safe and efficient modes of transit. But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.

Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense.

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought.

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway.

That sounds great, let's focus on the subway. Doesn't mean that we can't also give people who want to bike a scrap of the public land being used by drivers.

There's more than 100 miles of bike lanes in D.C. As you may have noticed, most of them are rarely used.

I've *never* seen anyone, not a single person, ever, use a bike lane near my house.