New bike lane on Old Georgetown Rd in Bethesda

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are they not doing more to encourage cyclists to utilize the very nice and adjacent trolley trail? What is the point of the trolley trail in the first place if not for use by bicycles instead of promoting cyclists to ride on a state highway.

Plenty of people use the Trolley Trail to go where the Trolley Trail goes, which is different from where Old Georgetown Road goes. Might as well ask why they are not doing more to encourage drivers to utilize the very nice and adjacent Rockville Pike instead of Old Georgetown Road.

[Anonymous]

If nothing else, the narrower lanes force drivers to slow down. Parts of old Georgetown road are only 35 miles an hour But people tear through it like it is a highway

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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 think you need to move to a desert island ASAP. You might not like them but cars are a part of life. They travel on roads. Not sidewalks or trails. I cannot take my mother to the doctors on a bike. I cannot get three kids to school (in the rain and snow) on a bike. A bus is ok unless I need to buy groceries. What are you going to complain about as more people use EVs? Destroy the urban fabric? You sound loony. It’d be great if all of us commuters could get along but blaming everything on cars and not taking more responsibility for your own personal safety ain’t going to get us to Vision Zero.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

You’ve gotta be sh!tting me.

They don’t feel “comfortable” riding a bike in the bike lanes?

They don’t feel SAFE riding a bike in the bike lanes, so prefer to ride in traffic, surrounded by cars? Because THAT’s somehow safer than the g*******ed BIKE LANE which cyclists demanded be built?

Are you f***ing kidding me????? Really??????

This is why people are fed all the F ‘ the way up with cyclists. There’s just no g*******ed pleasing you people.

I honestly don't understand why you find this confusing? Even people on NextDoor are posting about how they drove by the bike lanes and didn't think the bike lanes looked safe. As a card-carrying member of the Bike Lobby, I will often ride in the general lane instead of the bike lane, because yes, it's safer. There are unfortunately a lot of bad bike lanes in Montgomery County, completely aside from the issue mentioned by the PP, of bike lanes blocked by signs, parked cars, random pieces of cars, etc. You're also wrong about the history of the Old Georgetown Road bike lanes. They were demanded by community members and elected officials.

Bikes need to be banned from the roadway in places where there are dedicated bike-only lanes like on OGR.

That’s how you encourage cyclists to use them. Require it by force of law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are they not doing more to encourage cyclists to utilize the very nice and adjacent trolley trail? What is the point of the trolley trail in the first place if not for use by bicycles instead of promoting cyclists to ride on a state highway.

Plenty of people use the Trolley Trail to go where the Trolley Trail goes, which is different from where Old Georgetown Road goes. Might as well ask why they are not doing more to encourage drivers to utilize the very nice and adjacent Rockville Pike instead of Old Georgetown Road.

The trolley trail runs directly adjacent to MD355 through that area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If nothing else, the narrower lanes force drivers to slow down. Parts of old Georgetown road are only 35 miles an hour But people tear through it like it is a highway

“Like it’s a Highway”? It’s literally a State Highway!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are they not doing more to encourage cyclists to utilize the very nice and adjacent trolley trail? What is the point of the trolley trail in the first place if not for use by bicycles instead of promoting cyclists to ride on a state highway.

Plenty of people use the Trolley Trail to go where the Trolley Trail goes, which is different from where Old Georgetown Road goes. Might as well ask why they are not doing more to encourage drivers to utilize the very nice and adjacent Rockville Pike instead of Old Georgetown Road.

The trolley trail runs directly adjacent to MD355 through that area.

The sidewalk on the east side of Rockville Pike between Nicholson and Bou has "Trolley Trail" signs. Is that the area you're referring to? I don't understand how that's relevant to Old Georgetown Road, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If nothing else, the narrower lanes force drivers to slow down. Parts of old Georgetown road are only 35 miles an hour But people tear through it like it is a highway

“Like it’s a Highway”? It’s literally a State Highway!

Nah. It's literally a road that the Maryland State Highway Administration is responsible for. Like Bradley Lane between Wisconsin Avenue and Connecticut Avenue. Would you call that a highway? It has 2 lanes and a 25 mph speed limit.

[Anonymous]

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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.

and if you knew what happened in both those incidents, the sidewalks were blocked. Had nothing to do with the cars driving in their lanes, yes, unfortunate but don't make it seem like they died because there weren't bike lanes

[Anonymous]

More people have been hit -pedestrians and people on bikes since they started with all these changes to intersections and lanes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More people have been hit -pedestrians and people on bikes since they started with all these changes to intersections and lanes.

Data, please.

[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.

and if you knew what happened in both those incidents, the sidewalks were blocked. Had nothing to do with the cars driving in their lanes, yes, unfortunate but don't make it seem like they died because there weren't bike lanes

If there had been no cars driving in their lanes, both boys would still be alive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If nothing else, the narrower lanes force drivers to slow down. Parts of old Georgetown road are only 35 miles an hour But people tear through it like it is a highway

“Like it’s a Highway”? It’s literally a State Highway!

Nah. It's literally a road that the Maryland State Highway Administration is responsible for. Like Bradley Lane between Wisconsin Avenue and Connecticut Avenue. Would you call that a highway? It has 2 lanes and a 25 mph speed limit.

My god, these are all numbered state highways. MD187. MD191. MD355. MD185.

Yes. They are in fact definitionally a “highway”.

LOL. Keep digging.