Mary Cheh wants to make it legal for bicyclists for blow stop signs and stop lights

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

There are literally numbers in that article. They don't say that 80-90% of bicyclists are white, so nice try. And do you care about people who bike for reasons other than commuting?

Actually reading the reports helps.

From page 6 of the first one:

"Area cyclists are predominantly male, between 25 and 40 years old, white, and from higher income groups"

From page 13:

"Cyclists in Washington are also wealthier than the national average—even when controlling for differences in local and national income distributions. The wealthiest 25% of the population accounts for 41% of bike trips in Washington compared to 26% nationally. Lastly, cycling in the Washington region is dominated by whites, who accounted for 88% of all bike trips"

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

There are literally numbers in that article. They don't say that 80-90% of bicyclists are white, so nice try. And do you care about people who bike for reasons other than commuting?

Actually reading the reports helps.

From page 6 of the first one:

"Area cyclists are predominantly male, between 25 and 40 years old, white, and from higher income groups"

From page 13:

"Cyclists in Washington are also wealthier than the national average—even when controlling for differences in local and national income distributions. The wealthiest 25% of the population accounts for 41% of bike trips in Washington compared to 26% nationally. Lastly, cycling in the Washington region is dominated by whites, who accounted for 88% of all bike trips"

In part we don’t have more black people cycling because their idiot CM Trayvon White consistently opposes adding bike lanes east of the river.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

There are literally numbers in that article. They don't say that 80-90% of bicyclists are white, so nice try. And do you care about people who bike for reasons other than commuting?

Actually reading the reports helps.

From page 6 of the first one:

"Area cyclists are predominantly male, between 25 and 40 years old, white, and from higher income groups"

From page 13:

"Cyclists in Washington are also wealthier than the national average—even when controlling for differences in local and national income distributions. The wealthiest 25% of the population accounts for 41% of bike trips in Washington compared to 26% nationally. Lastly, cycling in the Washington region is dominated by whites, who accounted for 88% of all bike trips"

In part we don’t have more black people cycling because their idiot CM Trayvon White consistently opposes adding bike lanes east of the river.

He opposes them because his constituents don't want them. I live in a majority black neighborhood that is not in Ward 7 or 8, and I've lived here for a very long time, and I can count the number of black cyclists I've ever seen in my neighborhood on three fingers.

The people who want bike lanes are a very specific and small demographic. It's not even most white people. It's young, well-to-do white people, largely men.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

There are literally numbers in that article. They don't say that 80-90% of bicyclists are white, so nice try. And do you care about people who bike for reasons other than commuting?

Actually reading the reports helps.

From page 6 of the first one:

"Area cyclists are predominantly male, between 25 and 40 years old, white, and from higher income groups"

From page 13:

"Cyclists in Washington are also wealthier than the national average—even when controlling for differences in local and national income distributions. The wealthiest 25% of the population accounts for 41% of bike trips in Washington compared to 26% nationally. Lastly, cycling in the Washington region is dominated by whites, who accounted for 88% of all bike trips"

In part we don’t have more black people cycling because their idiot CM Trayvon White consistently opposes adding bike lanes east of the river.

He opposes them because his constituents don't want them. I live in a majority black neighborhood that is not in Ward 7 or 8, and I've lived here for a very long time, and I can count the number of black cyclists I've ever seen in my neighborhood on three fingers.

The people who want bike lanes are a very specific and small demographic. It's not even most white people. It's young, well-to-do white people, largely men.

Funny, most of the cyclists I see are 15-25 year old African-American males...in many cases riding to work or just around the neighborhoods with friends.

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You're also blind if you don't see construction workers heading to job sites by bike.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

There are literally numbers in that article. They don't say that 80-90% of bicyclists are white, so nice try. And do you care about people who bike for reasons other than commuting?

Actually reading the reports helps.

From page 6 of the first one:

"Area cyclists are predominantly male, between 25 and 40 years old, white, and from higher income groups"

From page 13:

"Cyclists in Washington are also wealthier than the national average—even when controlling for differences in local and national income distributions. The wealthiest 25% of the population accounts for 41% of bike trips in Washington compared to 26% nationally. Lastly, cycling in the Washington region is dominated by whites, who accounted for 88% of all bike trips"

In part we don’t have more black people cycling because their idiot CM Trayvon White consistently opposes adding bike lanes east of the river.

He opposes them because his constituents don't want them. I live in a majority black neighborhood that is not in Ward 7 or 8, and I've lived here for a very long time, and I can count the number of black cyclists I've ever seen in my neighborhood on three fingers.

The people who want bike lanes are a very specific and small demographic. It's not even most white people. It's young, well-to-do white people, largely men.

Funny, most of the cyclists I see are 15-25 year old African-American males...in many cases riding to work or just around the neighborhoods with friends.

In Adams Morgan a lot of the cyclists on Columbia Road are Hispanic. Now those guys prefer the sidewalk to the bike lane, and I wish they would embrace the bike lane.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

There are literally numbers in that article. They don't say that 80-90% of bicyclists are white, so nice try. And do you care about people who bike for reasons other than commuting?

Actually reading the reports helps.

From page 6 of the first one:

"Area cyclists are predominantly male, between 25 and 40 years old, white, and from higher income groups"

From page 13:

"Cyclists in Washington are also wealthier than the national average—even when controlling for differences in local and national income distributions. The wealthiest 25% of the population accounts for 41% of bike trips in Washington compared to 26% nationally. Lastly, cycling in the Washington region is dominated by whites, who accounted for 88% of all bike trips"

In part we don’t have more black people cycling because their idiot CM Trayvon White consistently opposes adding bike lanes east of the river.

He opposes them because his constituents don't want them. I live in a majority black neighborhood that is not in Ward 7 or 8, and I've lived here for a very long time, and I can count the number of black cyclists I've ever seen in my neighborhood on three fingers.

The people who want bike lanes are a very specific and small demographic. It's not even most white people. It's young, well-to-do white people, largely men.

Funny, most of the cyclists I see are 15-25 year old African-American males...in many cases riding to work or just around the neighborhoods with friends.

In Adams Morgan a lot of the cyclists on Columbia Road are Hispanic. Now those guys prefer the sidewalk to the bike lane, and I wish they would embrace the bike lane.

Make it safer go in the bike lanes and they will. Those guys aren't idiots. Uninsured / underinsured and work with their hands / bodies? Not risking that.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

White people love bike lanes, even more than they love moleskin notebooks, even more than they love complicated drinks from Starbucks, even more than they love playing kickball with other people who aren't children.

As a white person who doesn't like being hit by cars (even though the one time I was hit by a car on my bike, it was in a bike lane), yes, it's true, I do like bike lanes. FWIW, I dislike the other things on this list.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

White people love bike lanes, even more than they love moleskin notebooks, even more than they love complicated drinks from Starbucks, even more than they love playing kickball with other people who aren't children.

As a white person who doesn't like being hit by cars (even though the one time I was hit by a car on my bike, it was in a bike lane), yes, it's true, I do like bike lanes. FWIW, I dislike the other things on this list.

Common sense (and your mother) will tell you that it's not safe to ride a bike on the streets of a major American city.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

White people love bike lanes, even more than they love moleskin notebooks, even more than they love complicated drinks from Starbucks, even more than they love playing kickball with other people who aren't children.

As a white person who doesn't like being hit by cars (even though the one time I was hit by a car on my bike, it was in a bike lane), yes, it's true, I do like bike lanes. FWIW, I dislike the other things on this list.

Common sense (and your mother) will tell you that it's not safe to ride a bike on the streets of a major American city.

Which is a crock. Everyone pays for that public space, everyone ought to be able to use it safely to get from point a to point b. Why should everything cater to the least efficient form of transportation in terms of space and energy use?

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

White people love bike lanes, even more than they love moleskin notebooks, even more than they love complicated drinks from Starbucks, even more than they love playing kickball with other people who aren't children.

As a white person who doesn't like being hit by cars (even though the one time I was hit by a car on my bike, it was in a bike lane), yes, it's true, I do like bike lanes. FWIW, I dislike the other things on this list.

Common sense (and your mother) will tell you that it's not safe to ride a bike on the streets of a major American city.

Which is a crock. Everyone pays for that public space, everyone ought to be able to use it safely to get from point a to point b. Why should everything cater to the least efficient form of transportation in terms of space and energy use?

The city has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on bike lanes that hardly anyone even uses. I'd say bicyclists have gotten their share of the transportation resources many, many, many times over.

Also, it's not the government's job to make sure you don't hurt yourself doing something really stupid. Riding a bike in a city is inherently dangerous and there's nothing anyone can do about that. You're free to ride of course but take some responsibility for the risks you choose to run.

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Hundreds of millions? have a cite for that?

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

White people love bike lanes, even more than they love moleskin notebooks, even more than they love complicated drinks from Starbucks, even more than they love playing kickball with other people who aren't children.

As a white person who doesn't like being hit by cars (even though the one time I was hit by a car on my bike, it was in a bike lane), yes, it's true, I do like bike lanes. FWIW, I dislike the other things on this list.

Common sense (and your mother) will tell you that it's not safe to ride a bike on the streets of a major American city.

Which is a crock. Everyone pays for that public space, everyone ought to be able to use it safely to get from point a to point b. Why should everything cater to the least efficient form of transportation in terms of space and energy use?

The city has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on bike lanes that hardly anyone even uses. I'd say bicyclists have gotten their share of the transportation resources many, many, many times over.

Also, it's not the government's job to make sure you don't hurt yourself doing something really stupid. Riding a bike in a city is inherently dangerous and there's nothing anyone can do about that. You're free to ride of course but take some responsibility for the risks you choose to run.

Driving a car is also inherently dangerous; there were 40 fatalities in traffic accidents last year in D.C. alone. I assume you would also advocate that people stop doing that and that anyone who still drives despite the risk is some sort of idiot?

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

White people love bike lanes, even more than they love moleskin notebooks, even more than they love complicated drinks from Starbucks, even more than they love playing kickball with other people who aren't children.

As a white person who doesn't like being hit by cars (even though the one time I was hit by a car on my bike, it was in a bike lane), yes, it's true, I do like bike lanes. FWIW, I dislike the other things on this list.

Common sense (and your mother) will tell you that it's not safe to ride a bike on the streets of a major American city.

It would be perfectly safe if the drivers would not do things like drive in the bike lanes. Not sure how it's my fault that I got hit while riding my bike in a part of the road that cars are expressly supposed to be prohibited from entering.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen the stats on who uses bikes in D.C.? It's basically only white people.

More than 25 percent of kids in D.C. live in poverty. We dont have the money to lift poor black children out of poverty but we have all the money under the sun for white guys on bikes..

Source, please. That sounds like fabricated BS from behind the windshield of your Tahoe on your commute from Palisades.

Are you joking? You must be new here. Studies as well as user data from Capital Bikeshare have consistently shown that between 80 and 90 percent of people who rides bikes in Washington D.C. are white (and this in "Chocolate City"). Blacks are far more likely to drive than whites. Blacks are also far more likely than whites to be ticketed by that automatic speed cameras that bicyclists are clamoring to expand.

Every single thing about bikes lanes in Washington D.C. screams white privilege.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Trends-and-determinants-of-cycling-in-the-DC-Buehler-Hamre/93cd6416ab5e635e29c4d173267a831002c1015c

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/the-demographics-of-walking-and-biking-to-work/

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/

White people love bike lanes, even more than they love moleskin notebooks, even more than they love complicated drinks from Starbucks, even more than they love playing kickball with other people who aren't children.

As a white person who doesn't like being hit by cars (even though the one time I was hit by a car on my bike, it was in a bike lane), yes, it's true, I do like bike lanes. FWIW, I dislike the other things on this list.

Common sense (and your mother) will tell you that it's not safe to ride a bike on the streets of a major American city.

It would be perfectly safe if the drivers would not do things like drive in the bike lanes. Not sure how it's my fault that I got hit while riding my bike in a part of the road that cars are expressly supposed to be prohibited from entering.

Well we weren't there so we don't know the whole story but I would refer you back to the sage wisdom that riding a bike around lots of bigger faster cars might be a bit dangerous. Doesn't matter if you think it shouldn't be. It is.