The Bike Lobby is too powerful in DC...

[Anonymous]

Look at the research. Happiness is much higher in the Netherlands than in the U.S.

They’re stoned.

Seriously though
You can’t shove a bike culture down a car culture’s throat by being aggressively arrogant to drivers.

Losing parking spots to bicycle lanes that are not heavily traversed as hurt businesses on 17th St. and elsewhere

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:did you know bicyclists aren't required to wear helmets?

all this talk about safety and yet they fight any proposal to require them or even to require children on bikes to wear helmets.

Don't get me started on those idiotic rear mounted child bike seats with bars. So unsafe.

It's as if the bicyclists want everyone to stop for them - but they can't be bothered to follow the actual tules to keep themselves and their own children safe.

Riding in traffic with their toddlers and screaming across entry ways and walkways, as if no one else is on the road.

It is purely child endangerment.

Idiots.

Snort
Bicyclists are so smug, and antagonize us with their smugness
you seem unduly angry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:did you know bicyclists aren't required to wear helmets?

all this talk about safety and yet they fight any proposal to require them or even to require children on bikes to wear helmets.

Don't get me started on those idiotic rear mounted child bike seats with bars. So unsafe.

It's as if the bicyclists want everyone to stop for them - but they can't be bothered to follow the actual tules to keep themselves and their own children safe.

Riding in traffic with their toddlers and screaming across entry ways and walkways, as if no one else is on the road.

It is purely child endangerment.

Idiots.

you seem unduly angry

Snort
Smug bicyclist antagonizing a driver then smugly stating ‘you seem unduly angry.’

[Anonymous]

Whatever happened to common sense? I grew up bicycling in a major city
You use a bell on your bike
You watch for parked cars so you don’t get with a door
You certainly don’t take up the lane and piss off a driver

This world is getting too soft. The fact that a bicyclist can request its own lane and demand the same rights as a Car just means that there’s too many thin skinned people out there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to common sense? I grew up bicycling in a major city
You use a bell on your bike
You watch for parked cars so you don’t get with a door
You certainly don’t take up the lane and piss off a driver

This world is getting too soft. The fact that a bicyclist can request its own lane and demand the same rights as a Car just means that there’s too many thin skinned people out there

When you were growing up, the average vehicle weighed 2,000 lbs less and had better sight lines than a goddamn M1 Abrams tank. That's no longer the case on either account.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to common sense? I grew up bicycling in a major city
You use a bell on your bike
You watch for parked cars so you don’t get with a door
You certainly don’t take up the lane and piss off a driver

This world is getting too soft. The fact that a bicyclist can request its own lane and demand the same rights as a Car just means that there’s too many thin skinned people out there

When you were growing up, the average vehicle weighed 2,000 lbs less and had better sight lines than a goddamn M1 Abrams tank. That's no longer the case on either account.

[phone] the cars you people drive nowadays are absolutely insane.

[Anonymous]

A good thread on why DC shouldn't bother to register bikes anymore (the program was in place from the 20th century to 2000's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A good thread on why DC shouldn't bother to register bikes anymore (the program was in place from the 20th century to 2000's

If I’m hit and injured by a e-bike user subsidized by the DC government going 20 MPH, should not they be required to carry insurance?

[Anonymous]

The bike lobby needs to get much stronger in DC.

Our planet is at risk!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to common sense? I grew up bicycling in a major city
You use a bell on your bike
You watch for parked cars so you don’t get with a door
You certainly don’t take up the lane and piss off a driver

This world is getting too soft. The fact that a bicyclist can request its own lane and demand the same rights as a Car just means that there’s too many thin skinned people out there

When you were growing up, the average vehicle weighed 2,000 lbs less and had better sight lines than a goddamn M1 Abrams tank. That's no longer the case on either account.

wtf are you talking about? cars used to be made out of solid steel and many were notorious for having poor visibility. I'd make a crack about leaded gas...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whatever happened to common sense? I grew up bicycling in a major city
You use a bell on your bike
You watch for parked cars so you don’t get with a door
You certainly don’t take up the lane and piss off a driver

This world is getting too soft. The fact that a bicyclist can request its own lane and demand the same rights as a Car just means that there’s too many thin skinned people out there

When you were growing up, the average vehicle weighed 2,000 lbs less and had better sight lines than a goddamn M1 Abrams tank. That's no longer the case on either account.

wtf are you talking about? cars used to be made out of solid steel and many were notorious for having poor visibility. I'd make a crack about leaded gas...

They weren't freaking SUV's or F150's that kill people at half the speeds that regular cars did.

[Anonymous]

If y’all are worried about more vehicle-pedestrian accidents, how about telling the politicians and police to crack down hard on drivers who are high on pot and other drugs? Impaired driving is way, way up on the past four years. And while they’re at it, at least ticket the moronic pedestrians who cross streets without ever looking up from their “smart”(?) phones.

[Anonymous]

Now the bike lobby has to reckon with the DC Police Union, which is officially on record as opposing Connecticut Ave bike lanes as worsening traffic congestion and making conditions less safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now the bike lobby has to reckon with the DC Police Union, which is officially on record as opposing Connecticut Ave bike lanes as worsening traffic congestion and making conditions less safe.

A good rule of thumb is that if the DC police union has a position, the opposite position is the right one. They are absolute clowns with thin skins to boot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now the bike lobby has to reckon with the DC Police Union, which is officially on record as opposing Connecticut Ave bike lanes as worsening traffic congestion and making conditions less safe.

That was a powerful letter from the DC Police. It’s past time we started listening more to the police on issues of public safety.