Aw yeah: Connecticut Ave. Bike lanes are coming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think bike lanes are a great idea — I used to commute along there and not only did I worry about being killed, bikes in traffic lanes definitely slow the cars down. Not sure how I feel about not having rush hour direction changes. On one hand, I can definitely see how it leads to accidents and I witnessed one being only narrowly avoided when someone didn’t read the paragraph of text on one of the signs. But on the other, that road is so busy with the extra lanes! I shudder to think how awful it will be for car commuters now.

You know what else makes roads awful for car commuters? Car crashes.

[Anonymous]

Dc traffic was always a nightmare and bike lanes make it worse. Sorry but I am just not doing it anymore. I worked downtown for 30 years, paying for parking, buying lunch, picking up my prescriptions at the CVS, shopping. No more. I know, I know, "don't let the door hit you on the way out". But if people like me from VA or MD aren't patronizing DC, what happens to DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dc traffic was always a nightmare and bike lanes make it worse. Sorry but I am just not doing it anymore. I worked downtown for 30 years, paying for parking, buying lunch, picking up my prescriptions at the CVS, shopping. No more. I know, I know, "don't let the door hit you on the way out". But if people like me from VA or MD aren't patronizing DC, what happens to DC?

You were not doing DC any favors by driving your cars on DC roads. If "people like you" means "people who won't go to DC unless they can conveniently drive there", then DC is likely better off without people like you. And I say that as a Maryland resident, not a DC resident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dc traffic was always a nightmare and bike lanes make it worse. Sorry but I am just not doing it anymore. I worked downtown for 30 years, paying for parking, buying lunch, picking up my prescriptions at the CVS, shopping. No more. I know, I know, "don't let the door hit you on the way out". But if people like me from VA or MD aren't patronizing DC, what happens to DC?

Oh no! We might not be able support 1 CVS per square block on the city anymore!

Worst case, real estate prices come down with vacancies until they are reachable by other things that we want. I'm ok with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^^Not to mention the logic of:

"We shouldn't have bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue because it would take a long time to deliver a Christmas card across the country if the US Postal Service had to transport it the whole way by bicycle."

I did admit that the topic had gone off topic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are so many bike lanes in DC and they’re almost always empty.

This! I hardly ever see anyone using the bike lane in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue except for the occasional non-helmet wearing tourist on a city bike

I use it every day to get to work. I do believe it's hard for drivers to see me there because I'm not on their phone screen.

Gee, why would many bike lanes in downtown D.C. be empty for the past two years, can't think of any reason, must just be that no one uses them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are so many bike lanes in DC and they’re almost always empty.

This! I hardly ever see anyone using the bike lane in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue except for the occasional non-helmet wearing tourist on a city bike

I use it every day to get to work. I do believe it's hard for drivers to see me there because I'm not on their phone screen.

Gee, why would many bike lanes in downtown D.C. be empty for the past two years, can't think of any reason, must just be that no one uses them.

I don't get it. They aren't empty any more so than roads. You don't develop traffic jams in bike lanes like you do with cars because bikes don't take up much room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dc traffic was always a nightmare and bike lanes make it worse. Sorry but I am just not doing it anymore. I worked downtown for 30 years, paying for parking, buying lunch, picking up my prescriptions at the CVS, shopping. No more. I know, I know, "don't let the door hit you on the way out". But if people like me from VA or MD aren't patronizing DC, what happens to DC?

Oh no! We might not be able support 1 CVS per square block on the city anymore!

Worst case, real estate prices come down with vacancies until they are reachable by other things that we want. I'm ok with that.

LOL. And yeah, CVS is closing so many stores nationwide so this is true.

I maintain that the Connecticut Avenue reversible lanes would be fine with better signage ala Colesville Road in Silver Spring, but I think the Cleveland Park Historic District people had problems with that.