usage data for arizona ave bike lane

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Anonymous wrote:it seems to have been very poorly thought out, between the lack of usage, the confiscation of residents' parking spots, and the poor flows regardless that lead to safety issues

“Confiscation of residents’ parking spots?”

Entitled much?

I’m sorry to have to break the news, but those residents do not own the road space adjacent to their abodes and they have no established right to a parking space.

Moreover, every house on those blocks has a driveway and there is ample space on the other side of the street for parking.

Invoking all manner of hyperbole to drawn attention to your own sense of victimization works a lot better if you develop some real problems first.

Do you really think it's safe for people parking across the street to have sprint across a very busy street with no crosswalk. Seriously?

Then ask DDOT to add a crosswalk. Without fail, opponents of these and other bike lanes love to complain but are completely incapable of coming up with a single constructive suggestion.

Will the cyclists and drivers stop for people within the crosswalks? The crosswalk only makes it safer if both cyclists and drivers stop for people within the crosswalks.

Cyclists aren’t really interested in pedestrian safety. Neither are drivers but unlike cyclists they don’t claim to implement features that only have a dubious tie to pedestrian safety.

Do you also make sweeping generalizations about various ethnic and religious groups? Or is your bigotry restricted to making up silly stereotypes about people who use a different form of transportation than you?

You make think this is all fun and games, but the dehumanization of cyclists has really consequences. Consequences like this: https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-teens-13-15-charged-murder-hit-and-run-bicyclist-posted-social-media. Odds are that Scott Habermehl would have still been alive if there were a bike lane on that road.

Pfft. Even cyclists' moms think they are obnoxious, entitled *ssholes. They are the worst people on the road.

So you are mocking a dead person now? It's only a sign of the times that you have the sling stupid slurs like "cycopath" while exhibiting attitudes that would classify you as borderline certifiable. In less scientific terms, you are a complete ghoul.

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Anonymous wrote:Any dehumanization of cyclists followed demonization of car users and disregard for pedestrians. "Car-free diets," letting motorized bikes and scooters on trails, treating bike commuters as gods. It's very, very ableist.
I can walk. I cannot ride a bike. Even for fun. Even with a motor. It's balance and knees. Being demonized for driving to Sibley (what, you want me to Uber it's still a car) because 7 miles is too far to walk and 2 hours connecting buses is crazy isn't ever going to get me on a bike.

You are responding to arguments that have never been made, arguing with straw-men that do not exist, and inventing scenarios that have no basis in reality.

No one cares how you get to Sibley.

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Anonymous wrote:Any dehumanization of cyclists followed demonization of car users and disregard for pedestrians. "Car-free diets," letting motorized bikes and scooters on trails, treating bike commuters as gods. It's very, very ableist.
I can walk. I cannot ride a bike. Even for fun. Even with a motor. It's balance and knees. Being demonized for driving to Sibley (what, you want me to Uber it's still a car) because 7 miles is too far to walk and 2 hours connecting buses is crazy isn't ever going to get me on a bike.

You are responding to arguments that have never been made, arguing with straw-men that do not exist, and inventing scenarios that have no basis in reality.

No one cares how you get to Sibley.

LOL at saying that right after you called PP a ghoul and slandered them.

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Anonymous wrote:These bike lanes are working as intended—to punish drivers because cars are bad. The fact that nobody uses them is viewed as a positive, I suspect, because it makes the point clear.

There is an element of truth in this. It’s not like cyclists - or the local ANC - petitioned DDOT to put a bike lane on Arizona. I strongly suspect that the reason that DDOT put the bike lane there was to slow down traffic by narrowing the street, which has long been subject to relentless speeding. I live on a similarly wide street that cars speed up and down all day long and I wish DDOT would put up a bike lane or do something to narrow the street to stop people doing 50mph+ along a residential street.

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Anonymous wrote:These bike lanes are working as intended—to punish drivers because cars are bad. The fact that nobody uses them is viewed as a positive, I suspect, because it makes the point clear.

Uh huh. This person cares how I get to Sibley.

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Anonymous wrote:Any dehumanization of cyclists followed demonization of car users and disregard for pedestrians. "Car-free diets," letting motorized bikes and scooters on trails, treating bike commuters as gods. It's very, very ableist.
I can walk. I cannot ride a bike. Even for fun. Even with a motor. It's balance and knees. Being demonized for driving to Sibley (what, you want me to Uber it's still a car) because 7 miles is too far to walk and 2 hours connecting buses is crazy isn't ever going to get me on a bike.

You are responding to arguments that have never been made, arguing with straw-men that do not exist, and inventing scenarios that have no basis in reality.

No one cares how you get to Sibley.

LOL at saying that right after you called PP a ghoul and slandered them.

One poster is (rightly) calling you out for mocking a person who died in tragic circumstances. Another poster is (rightly) pointing out that there is not a single person in this world who demonizes people who drive 7 miles to Sibley.

Public policy should be based on protecting people from injuries and death, not the imaginary voices in their heads. Do you disagree?

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It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”

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Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”

The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”

The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.

therapy works for what you have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”

The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.

Can we get the sources for those "billions of dollars" and "150 miles" claims, again?

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Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”

The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.

Can we get the sources for those "billions of dollars" and "150 miles" claims, again?

Our government! AKA the horse's mouth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”

The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.

The entitlement comes in many forms, like when they pound on your car because they're unhappy about something you did, and they just assume that the drivers won't respond in a way that will put them in a hospital and/or grave. As I a driver, I would never confront another driver because you just don't know...

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Demonization of cars

https://www.neonichestrategies.com/car-free-diet

[Anonymous]

Just saw a noble bike rider in a left turn lane take advantage of the green arrow to pedal across the cross street, not turn left. Soooo important to get a head start. If a car did that ticket time.

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Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”

The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.

Can we get the sources for those "billions of dollars" and "150 miles" claims, again?

Our government! AKA the horse's mouth.

Are you serious? Someone asks for a source and your response is “our government”. That’s not how this works. And I have a faint recollection of going down this road before. After much prodding, you did refer inquisitive readers to a document or two. And those documents revealed your claims to be totally unsubstantiated.