The Bike Lobby is too powerful in DC...

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Anonymous wrote:Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are finally back in charge in 2024. Drive, bus, walk, or Metro. Those are your choices.

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars. All that asphalt and signaling is. The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure.

Not billions of course. But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost? That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years.

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.

The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection

Remember all this money is being spent on a tiny number of people. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the government bought every cyclist in the city a Porsche.

If the city spent money on poor people like it spends it on cyclists, there would be no poverty in D.C.

Uh, EVERYBODY uses these things and for those who don't you them, you are getting benefit because of the mitigation of people who would otherwise drive, ergo leaving more open road space and parking spaces for people like you.

this is nonsensical. bike lanes make congestion dramatically worse. hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes and among those who do, almost none are switching to bikes from cars. meanwhile the bike lanes leave a lot less room for car traffic, which means a lot more congestion.

Nope sorry wasn't true the last 100 times either.

They should get rid of a lane and make a bigger sidewalk. No bike lanes.

Umm that is the point of adding bike lanes - the sidewalk effectively is bigger because pedestrians are no longer sharing space with people on bikes and scooters.

The sidewalk isn’t effectively bigger. It’s the same size. You can’t add more outdoor dining spaces or have space for two neighbors to have a chat without being in the way (unless you’re suggesting people do this in the bike lanes). Sidewalks help make places. Bike lanes are for people passing through.

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A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

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Anonymous wrote:Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are finally back in charge in 2024. Drive, bus, walk, or Metro. Those are your choices.

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars. All that asphalt and signaling is. The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure.

Not billions of course. But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost? That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years.

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.

The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection

Remember all this money is being spent on a tiny number of people. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the government bought every cyclist in the city a Porsche.

If the city spent money on poor people like it spends it on cyclists, there would be no poverty in D.C.

Uh, EVERYBODY uses these things and for those who don't you them, you are getting benefit because of the mitigation of people who would otherwise drive, ergo leaving more open road space and parking spaces for people like you.

this is nonsensical. bike lanes make congestion dramatically worse. hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes and among those who do, almost none are switching to bikes from cars. meanwhile the bike lanes leave a lot less room for car traffic, which means a lot more congestion.

Nope sorry wasn't true the last 100 times either.

They should get rid of a lane and make a bigger sidewalk. No bike lanes.

Umm that is the point of adding bike lanes - the sidewalk effectively is bigger because pedestrians are no longer sharing space with people on bikes and scooters.

The sidewalk isn’t effectively bigger. It’s the same size. You can’t add more outdoor dining spaces or have space for two neighbors to have a chat without being in the way (unless you’re suggesting people do this in the bike lanes). Sidewalks help make places. Bike lanes are for people passing through.

Bike lanes are also for people coming to that area, not just passing through.

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Anonymous wrote:Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are finally back in charge in 2024. Drive, bus, walk, or Metro. Those are your choices.

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars. All that asphalt and signaling is. The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure.

Not billions of course. But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost? That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years.

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.

The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection

Remember all this money is being spent on a tiny number of people. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the government bought every cyclist in the city a Porsche.

If the city spent money on poor people like it spends it on cyclists, there would be no poverty in D.C.

Uh, EVERYBODY uses these things and for those who don't you them, you are getting benefit because of the mitigation of people who would otherwise drive, ergo leaving more open road space and parking spaces for people like you.

this is nonsensical. bike lanes make congestion dramatically worse. hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes and among those who do, almost none are switching to bikes from cars. meanwhile the bike lanes leave a lot less room for car traffic, which means a lot more congestion.

Nope sorry wasn't true the last 100 times either.

They should get rid of a lane and make a bigger sidewalk. No bike lanes.

Umm that is the point of adding bike lanes - the sidewalk effectively is bigger because pedestrians are no longer sharing space with people on bikes and scooters.

The sidewalk isn’t effectively bigger. It’s the same size. You can’t add more outdoor dining spaces or have space for two neighbors to have a chat without being in the way (unless you’re suggesting people do this in the bike lanes). Sidewalks help make places. Bike lanes are for people passing through.

Bike lanes are also for people coming to that area, not just passing through.

If they’re coming to that area they won’t mind slowing down.

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Anonymous wrote:Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are finally back in charge in 2024. Drive, bus, walk, or Metro. Those are your choices.

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars. All that asphalt and signaling is. The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure.

Not billions of course. But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost? That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years.

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.

The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection

Remember all this money is being spent on a tiny number of people. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the government bought every cyclist in the city a Porsche.

If the city spent money on poor people like it spends it on cyclists, there would be no poverty in D.C.

Uh, EVERYBODY uses these things and for those who don't you them, you are getting benefit because of the mitigation of people who would otherwise drive, ergo leaving more open road space and parking spaces for people like you.

this is nonsensical. bike lanes make congestion dramatically worse. hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes and among those who do, almost none are switching to bikes from cars. meanwhile the bike lanes leave a lot less room for car traffic, which means a lot more congestion.

Nope sorry wasn't true the last 100 times either.

They should get rid of a lane and make a bigger sidewalk. No bike lanes.

Umm that is the point of adding bike lanes - the sidewalk effectively is bigger because pedestrians are no longer sharing space with people on bikes and scooters.

The sidewalk isn’t effectively bigger. It’s the same size. You can’t add more outdoor dining spaces or have space for two neighbors to have a chat without being in the way (unless you’re suggesting people do this in the bike lanes). Sidewalks help make places. Bike lanes are for people passing through.

Eh? Bike lanes also help make places - to say nothing of helping people go to those places, by bike.

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Anonymous wrote:A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park. Now no one gets a cookie.

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Anonymous wrote:A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park. Now no one gets a cookie.

2/3 of the bakery's customers arrive on foot or by bike. Why would it close due to lack of car parking?

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Anonymous wrote:Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are finally back in charge in 2024. Drive, bus, walk, or Metro. Those are your choices.

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars. All that asphalt and signaling is. The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure.

Not billions of course. But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost? That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years.

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.

The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection

Remember all this money is being spent on a tiny number of people. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the government bought every cyclist in the city a Porsche.

If the city spent money on poor people like it spends it on cyclists, there would be no poverty in D.C.

Uh, EVERYBODY uses these things and for those who don't you them, you are getting benefit because of the mitigation of people who would otherwise drive, ergo leaving more open road space and parking spaces for people like you.

this is nonsensical. bike lanes make congestion dramatically worse. hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes and among those who do, almost none are switching to bikes from cars. meanwhile the bike lanes leave a lot less room for car traffic, which means a lot more congestion.

Nope sorry wasn't true the last 100 times either.

They should get rid of a lane and make a bigger sidewalk. No bike lanes.

Umm that is the point of adding bike lanes - the sidewalk effectively is bigger because pedestrians are no longer sharing space with people on bikes and scooters.

The sidewalk isn’t effectively bigger. It’s the same size. You can’t add more outdoor dining spaces or have space for two neighbors to have a chat without being in the way (unless you’re suggesting people do this in the bike lanes). Sidewalks help make places. Bike lanes are for people passing through.

Bike lanes are also for people coming to that area, not just passing through.

If they’re coming to that area they won’t mind slowing down.

Who won't mind slowing down? All we have heard are complaints from the NIMBYs about how this is all a ploy to slow speeds on CT Ave. They are already complaining about it.

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Anonymous wrote:A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park. Now no one gets a cookie.

LOL how many bakeries and gelato places are there in the various car-free piazzas in Italy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park. Now no one gets a cookie.

2/3 of the bakery's customers arrive on foot or by bike. Why would it close due to lack of car parking?

66/100 arrive by foot and 1/100 arrives by bike. Your statement is still true. But the bakery lost 33/100 so it had to close.

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Anonymous wrote:Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are finally back in charge in 2024. Drive, bus, walk, or Metro. Those are your choices.

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars. All that asphalt and signaling is. The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure.

Not billions of course. But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost? That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years.

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.

The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection

Remember all this money is being spent on a tiny number of people. It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the government bought every cyclist in the city a Porsche.

If the city spent money on poor people like it spends it on cyclists, there would be no poverty in D.C.

Uh, EVERYBODY uses these things and for those who don't you them, you are getting benefit because of the mitigation of people who would otherwise drive, ergo leaving more open road space and parking spaces for people like you.

this is nonsensical. bike lanes make congestion dramatically worse. hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes and among those who do, almost none are switching to bikes from cars. meanwhile the bike lanes leave a lot less room for car traffic, which means a lot more congestion.

Nope sorry wasn't true the last 100 times either.

They should get rid of a lane and make a bigger sidewalk. No bike lanes.

Umm that is the point of adding bike lanes - the sidewalk effectively is bigger because pedestrians are no longer sharing space with people on bikes and scooters.

The sidewalk isn’t effectively bigger. It’s the same size. You can’t add more outdoor dining spaces or have space for two neighbors to have a chat without being in the way (unless you’re suggesting people do this in the bike lanes). Sidewalks help make places. Bike lanes are for people passing through.

Bike lanes are also for people coming to that area, not just passing through.

If they’re coming to that area they won’t mind slowing down.

Who won't mind slowing down? All we have heard are complaints from the NIMBYs about how this is all a ploy to slow speeds on CT Ave. They are already complaining about it.

Right. Just like the cars will slow down when we convert one lane into sidewalks, so will the cyclists. What’s the problem?

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Anonymous wrote:A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park. Now no one gets a cookie.

2/3 of the bakery's customers arrive on foot or by bike. Why would it close due to lack of car parking?

66/100 arrive by foot and 1/100 arrives by bike. Your statement is still true. But the bakery lost 33/100 so it had to close.

Every study, everywhere, has shown that bike lanes benefit businesses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are finally back in charge in 2024. Drive, bus, walk, or Metro. Those are your choices.

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars. All that asphalt and signaling is. The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure.

Not billions of course. But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost? That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years.

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.

The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection

The big money comes when they build trails and bridges and redesign roads. Bowser wants $185 million just to build bike trails.

It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the city paid every cyclist in the city $1 million to ride the subway

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Anonymous wrote:A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park. Now no one gets a cookie.

2/3 of the bakery's customers arrive on foot or by bike. Why would it close due to lack of car parking?

66/100 arrive by foot and 1/100 arrives by bike. Your statement is still true. But the bakery lost 33/100 so it had to close.

Every study, everywhere, has shown that bike lanes benefit businesses.

Bike lanes make it harder for people to circulate throughout a city. Hard to see how that would ever be good for a business.

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Anonymous wrote:A driver, bicyclist and pedestrian walk into a bakery. The baker brings them a plate of 12 cookies. The driver quickly snatches up 11 cookies, turns to the pedestrian and says, “Watch out! The bicyclist is going to steal your cookie!”

The bakery closed because there was nowhere to park. Now no one gets a cookie.

2/3 of the bakery's customers arrive on foot or by bike. Why would it close due to lack of car parking?

66/100 arrive by foot and 1/100 arrives by bike. Your statement is still true. But the bakery lost 33/100 so it had to close.

Every study, everywhere, has shown that bike lanes benefit businesses.

They don't care about facts.