Only density bros and bike bros call parking “car storage.” |
I like to ride Metro but I get plenty stressed when some punk lights up a joint in the adjacent train seat. It’s happened several times. Bring back the days of zero-tolerance ticketing for Metro offenders! Our subway system was safe, clean and efficient then. |
Houston doesn't have sidewalks. The bikebros don't care about sidewalks either. It's a push. Both visions suck I've said it before and I'll say it again. Pushing for bike lanes, without demonstrated demand, on major roads before sidewalks on every block is among the dumbest things I have ever heard. |
This is Trump-style false spin. Who would possibly bring that to a bike lane fight? |
It’s a clear sign of people who spend too much time talking amongst themselves and not enough time talking to ordinary people. They have developed their own vocabulary that they don’t realize sounds idiotic to outsiders: “bike bigots”, “cagers”, “car storage”, “two ton death machines”, etc. They don’t seem to understand how idiotic they sound. |
Which will not only make Connecticut miserable but make driving/biking/walking/living along: Reno 34th Cathedral Cleveland Garfield Woodley Macomb Porter Ordway Rod man Rodman Upton Tilden Van Ness Yuma Albemare Brandywine Nebraska Broad Branch Nevada Davenport Ellicott And so forth and so on… Miserable. |
If we're talking just DC taxpayers, as in the people that actually fund the infrastructure on Connecticut, then drivers are also a minority. The reality is that for DC, we allocate way more space and funding to cars than their proportion would dictate. Drivers want to keep it that way. |
Regardless of what you want to call it, car parking objectively is car storage. Your car has to be somewhere while you're not driving it. Whose responsibility is it to figure out where your car will be while you're not driving it? And when is it appropriate to leave your private stuff on public property? |
Do what now? Houston certainly does have sidewalks. But I think it's funny, the idea that there is no demonstrated demand for bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue. People have been demonstrating demand for bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue for YEARS now. |
Those scooter and e-bike companies “store” their equipment on public property all the time. And not just on streets, but by blocking sidewalks and handicapped ramps, crushing tree roots and plants in tree boxes, etc. |
That is not a refutation of my statement. Cyclists please take your fingers out of your ears and take into consideration that you are not the only folks traveling through the city. If I cannot get some place by car I find an alternative solution. I don’t expect the world to change for me. That is unrealistic and immature. Cyclist’s negative attitude and blatant disrespect for everyone else around them is a big part of the reason so many are against bike lanes in addition to the very concrete reasons we have presented to no avail. |
Less than 30 of you? You call that demand AND you think Houston has a lot of sidewalks? Dude, you need to hydrate more because you're full on delusional. |
I love how you just make things up. DC has one registered car per household. Car registrations: 298,400 (2021) Households: 326,970 (2022) Every household in DC, on average, has a car. Every adult is a driver. |
The bike lobby’s Trumper strikes again! |
Yes, people generally do want more of things they like and less of things they don't like. That is not news. But the point of bike lanes really is not to make you, the driver, unhappy. People are not wanting bike lanes or bus lanes or crosswalks AT you, the driver. The point of bike lanes is to make bicycling safe, comfortable, and convenient for people on bikes. Similarly, the point of bus lanes is to make bus service faster and more reliable, and the point of crosswalks is to make the street safe, comfortable, and convenient for pedestrians to cross. It really, really is not all about you, the driver. Unless you believe it's zero-sum, and anything that makes the street better for bicyclists, bus riders, or pedestrians necessarily makes it worse for drivers? If so 1. that's a factually incorrect belief 2. even if it were factually correct, which it isn't, it still wouldn't be a reason not to have bike lanes and bus lanes and crosswalks 3. even if it were factually correct, which it isn't, it would still be a byproduct of the bike lanes and bus lanes and crosswalks, not the primary goal of the bike lanes and bus lanes and crosswalks |