What would it ACTUALLY take for you to consider biking or taking the bus, in lieu of motoring?

[Anonymous]

I'd consider biking to work if there were a dedicated bike or mixed-use trail going from home to my office. I will not bike on the roads during rush hour, even in a protected bike lane, and there's nothing that will convince me otherwise.

I have no problem taking the bus; I used to take Metrobus to work all the time when I lived in DC proper. But now I live further out in MoCo and there are no direct bus routes to where I need to be. If that changes, I'll reconsider.

[Anonymous]

I'm for the bike lanes if for no other reason than they pinch down the number of travel lanes and slow down cars.

But above that, there's nothing like bumper to bumper traffic with bikes cruising on by right next to you to make you consider biking as an effective alternative!

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Anonymous wrote:DC has had bike lanes for more than a decade. It has spent *billions* of dollars building up the infrastructure. The city promotes biking relentlessly. It will even buy people bikes. And yet polls consistently show cycling is the least popular form of transportation in Washington. People just aren’t into biking….

Where do you get to billions of dollars in bike infrastructure? The current budget proposal calls for $36 million (over six years) to add 10 miles of protected bike lanes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/ So that's $3.6 million per mile. To get to even $1 billion in bike infrastructure, we would theoretically have more than 200 miles of protected bike lanes already in D.C.

Look at the actual budget. DC routinely spends $100M per year on bike related things. It’s kinda nuts.

To be fair it's bot $100M but there is a lot of bike stuff tucked into the non-bike portions. But even just the pure bike part of the budget equals over $50 for every single resident. It's crazy but true. It would be cheaper to just buy everyone a bike.

It would be cheaper to buy every bicyclist a Ferrari

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm for the bike lanes if for no other reason than they pinch down the number of travel lanes and slow down cars.

But above that, there's nothing like bumper to bumper traffic with bikes cruising on by right next to you to make you consider biking as an effective alternative!

The sociopathy of this mentality is off the chart

[Anonymous]

Bike lanes that are real bike lanes- maybe even with a guard rail so cars are forced to respect them.

The bus? I’d loooove to. My area doesn’t have convenient bus routes with frequent busses. In fact I looked into taking a bus from the bus stop at the end of my road (where I’ve never seen a real live bus) to this one cute downtown area about 2.5 miles away. The bus which comes once every 2 hours would reroute me around the city for 2 transfers and google thinks the bus journey would take about 3 hours. That’s insane. Please give me a way to take the bus to the town center in my town.

[Anonymous]

I would have to get both knees replaced.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm for the bike lanes if for no other reason than they pinch down the number of travel lanes and slow down cars.

But above that, there's nothing like bumper to bumper traffic with bikes cruising on by right next to you to make you consider biking as an effective alternative!

The sociopathy of this mentality is off the chart

DP In what way? Biking is so much faster in my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would have to get both knees replaced.

I bike specifically because I have a bad knee. It is pretty low impact if you have a light bike and know how to use your gears efficiently.

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Anonymous wrote:I would have to get both knees replaced.

I bike specifically because I have a bad knee. It is pretty low impact if you have a light bike and know how to use your gears efficiently.

+1 same here but bad hip instead of knee. it is really low-impact!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm for the bike lanes if for no other reason than they pinch down the number of travel lanes and slow down cars.

But above that, there's nothing like bumper to bumper traffic with bikes cruising on by right next to you to make you consider biking as an effective alternative!

The sociopathy of this mentality is off the chart

DP In what way? Biking is so much faster in my neighborhood.

Really? Hoping for bumper to bumper traffic and massive congestion

[Anonymous]

The bus stations would have to be free of homeless and criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bus stations would have to be free of homeless and criminals.

Homeless people have the right to ride the bus.

This reminds me of that thread where a poster refused to go to the public library because homeless people went to it. Homeless people have the right to go to the library too.

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Anonymous wrote:The bus stations would have to be free of homeless and criminals.

Homeless people have the right to ride the bus.

This reminds me of that thread where a poster refused to go to the public library because homeless people went to it. Homeless people have the right to go to the library too.

A homeless person stabbed another homeless person to death in front of small children in the Petworth library.

Yeah, homeless people using libraries as de facto shelters is awesome.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The bus stations would have to be free of homeless and criminals.

Homeless people have the right to ride the bus.

This reminds me of that thread where a poster refused to go to the public library because homeless people went to it. Homeless people have the right to go to the library too.

If the buses fill up with homeless people (and they will once homeless people realize they’re free) no one else will use them. Not sure what that accomplishes. Is the purpose of public transportation to drive homeless people in circles all day?

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Anonymous wrote:What would it take? A multinational corporation to relocate a large office to within 15-30min bike ride of my house in a county that is extremely harsh on taxes. Also would need to be between 50-70 degrees that only happens about 15% of the year. So, basically it would take a miracle, which is why this bike stuff is so dumb

That says a lot about you and not much about "bike stuff".

PP is right. All the bike planning makes no sense unless we start building complete communities that have plentiful jobs at all income levels and housing at all levels of affordability. We spend a lot of time on housing but not much in jobs. Like where are all these people going to work? Right now the answer to that question is Tysons. It’s hard to bike there from NW or Silver Spring. Bike trails and bike lanes won’t change that much.

Everyone will work in Tysons? And nobody will make any trips at all, except to and from work (in Tysons)? No. Yes, we need better land use policies, better housing policies - and better transportation policies. All at once.

Personally, I have no interest in living, working, and playing in the same area. Sounds boring and stifling.