How does everyone feel about bike lanes now in Bethesda?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be more bike lanes.

They should also shutdown all of rockville pike. Make it 100% walkable or bikeable only. Run a single lane tram up and down the whole way.

American car culture is ridiculously stupid and needs a horrific death. That starts by making driving a very painful chore.

How about you move to a city center somewhere and leave the rest of us alone?

[Anonymous]

The reason the bike lanes exist in downtown Bethesda is because the County / State wouldn't pay to run the Capital Crescent Trail alongside the purple line tracks in the tunnel under Wisconsin Ave and the Air Rights Center (it's called that because they have Air Rights over the old railroad.) To be clear, this was the promise made when this project was "sold" to the public during the Civil War. Now, they have created a useless bike lane nightmare that no one understands and the intersection of Bethesda Ave and Woodmont. It's poorly designed and makes everything worse both for cyclists and drivers. If there's a right way to do something, count on County Government to screw it up and make cost 10X more than it should.

[Anonymous]

A lot of very nasty and hateful people on this thread. Or is it only very few who like the anonymity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of very nasty and hateful people on this thread. Or is it only very few who like the anonymity?

I think b/c most cyclists are just rich, white and entitled. like the women antagonizing ICE in Minnesota. Most of them have 70K plus EV or 100K+ SUV's at home

and bike lanes just suck and are almost always empty