Bike lanes that literally no one uses -- why are we still doing this?

[Anonymous]

free federal money

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Anonymous wrote:I use the bike lanes every day to buy groceries, take my kids to the Metro, take my oldest to soccer practice, visit my parents, commute to work.

Oh wait. Of course I don’t. I use the bus and car for those.

Some bike lanes work great. Others are pure city-planner GGW (does that exist anymore?) hokum that actually do damage by increasing commuting times and further disadvantaging centralized jobs and retail.

Whatever Duffy is up to is likely politicized nonsense, but the bike lane lobby has got to chill. Losing Connecticut Avenue was a sign.

Bike lanes reduce walking, not driving. Not sure why we want to reduce walking.

Huh? Biking if frequently faster than driving, especially in town. It takes me 25 mins by bike from Bethesda to Water St in Georgetown. Can’t beat that by car in the morning.

Someone's breaking the law. Because that is only possible if you speed and/or run the lights.

The only reason biking is faster than driving is because bicyclists are ignoring every traffic law.

As a bicyclist I can say that this is 100% true and if there was an AI traffic control / ticketing system at every stop sign / traffic signal that enforced every traffic law for bicyclists hardly anyone would bike.

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Anonymous wrote:The city installed a protected bike lane on a road I've driven on every day for many years. They took out a car lane to do it. Now, traffic on the road is a lot worse. In the maybe six months since it was installed, I have seen a grand total of two bicyclists use it. During that same time, I must have seen many thousands of drivers on that same road. How on earth does this make any sense?

People use them during commuting hours. Also the more the bike lanes are connected, the more people will feel safe and use them. Our street dollars are mainly spent for cars not even paying tax in DC. You can walk in down town, don't have to drive all the time.

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I would bike to work sometimes if there were bike lines that were connected. I have biked to work a few times with experienced cyclists and it feels unsafe to ride on some of the roads. Not a complaint, just a comment!

[Anonymous]

I think it's awesome that this kind of ridiculous whining from anti-bike extremists is going to be enshrined for future sociologists to sift through.

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Anonymous wrote:I use the bike lanes every day to buy groceries, take my kids to the Metro, take my oldest to soccer practice, visit my parents, commute to work.

Oh wait. Of course I don’t. I use the bus and car for those.

Some bike lanes work great. Others are pure city-planner GGW (does that exist anymore?) hokum that actually do damage by increasing commuting times and further disadvantaging centralized jobs and retail.

Whatever Duffy is up to is likely politicized nonsense, but the bike lane lobby has got to chill. Losing Connecticut Avenue was a sign.

Bike lanes reduce walking, not driving. Not sure why we want to reduce walking.

Huh? Biking if frequently faster than driving, especially in town. It takes me 25 mins by bike from Bethesda to Water St in Georgetown. Can’t beat that by car in the morning.

Someone's breaking the law. Because that is only possible if you speed and/or run the lights.

They are likely using the Capital Crescent Trail.

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Anonymous wrote:I use the bike lanes every day to buy groceries, take my kids to the Metro, take my oldest to soccer practice, visit my parents, commute to work.

Oh wait. Of course I don’t. I use the bus and car for those.

Some bike lanes work great. Others are pure city-planner GGW (does that exist anymore?) hokum that actually do damage by increasing commuting times and further disadvantaging centralized jobs and retail.

Whatever Duffy is up to is likely politicized nonsense, but the bike lane lobby has got to chill. Losing Connecticut Avenue was a sign.

Bike lanes reduce walking, not driving. Not sure why we want to reduce walking.

Huh? Biking if frequently faster than driving, especially in town. It takes me 25 mins by bike from Bethesda to Water St in Georgetown. Can’t beat that by car in the morning.

Someone's breaking the law. Because that is only possible if you speed and/or run the lights.

They are likely using the Capital Crescent Trail.

This is the secret sauce. You don't need lights if cars aren't involved. This quickly makes bikes faster when they have their own infrastructure.

Cars are their own worst enemy, and because of traffic they end up as slow as bikes in urban areas. During rush hour they average 10-12 MPH, which is CaBi speed.

So you might as well save a large fortune and just build cities around the bike instead.

[Anonymous]

Ha. Jeff is modding a bike thread. Loser.

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Every time I see a ghost bike I say thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Every time I see a ghost bike I say thank you.

This is a pretty terrible thing to believe, no matter how much you don’t like bikes.

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Anonymous wrote:Every time I see a ghost bike I say thank you.

This is a pretty terrible thing to believe, no matter how much you don’t like bikes.

There's one at Connecticut and L that memorializes a cyclist who died after blowing through a red light while intoxicated.

[Anonymous]

If the neighborhood has not realized it yet, Duncan is a problem. Just looks at the bait and switch mess around Black Coffee...local officials worked hand in gloves with sketchy developer to subvert zoning rules and then lie about a "solution" that the developer promptly backed out of

"“We spent 18 months of our lives designing a protected bike lane because we didn’t think there was any other option,” said Tricia Duncan, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in the area, adding that it took the city another six months to install the lanes. “They are sacrificing safety for aesthetics.”" https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/12/arizona-bike-lane-dc/

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DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

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Anonymous wrote:DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law

The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it.

This is true of pedestrians too. We should require license plates on shoes also.