
Induced demand is a thing. Look it up. |
I dont believe you for one second. Beach drive has been the go to bike commute road since before bike lanes were a twinkle in anyone's eye. The sidewalks on Connecticut are not narrow and do not have bikes on them. You don't seem to know anything about the area in question. |
I live in DC and own a car. I never drive it into work because it’s cheaper and faster - and, thanks to bike lanes, reasonable safe - to bike. If it’s raining, I take the bus. I have kids in different schools. They either bus and walk or bike. Freedom from car dependence is, for most of us, easier than many seem to think. |
I am a NP but what do you not believe? That this poster lives near CT Ave? That she would bike more if there were bike lanes on CT Ave? If she lives on CT avenue maybe she wants to bike down the street she lives on instead of going half a mile to a mile out of her way to get to Beach Drive (which is NOT bike friendly for most of it if cars are on it as there is so separate bike lane). The sidewalks are too narrow to have pedestrian traffic and bike commuter traffic. "Narrow" is relative here given the size of the corridor |
I do not believe that that poster lives along Connecticut Ave between Woodley Park and Chevy Chase. I also do not believe that they have any desire to bike up and down the hill between Calvert and Dupont. And no the sidewalks along Connecticut Ave, between Woodley and Chevy Chase, are not narrow in a relative sense either. They are among the widest in the entire metropolitan area. |
The whole 'reimainging CT Ave" is about safety - bike lanes, pedestrian buffer, more crosswalks etc. That makes it safer for all modes of transportation. Keeping the status quo is dangerous, as the flipped car last week illustrates. |
NIMBYs always think the proposed changes are unique to the world. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Road splits and capacity have been altered all over the world with great success, but for some reason, none of the things that work world wide will work on Connecticut Avenue ![]() |
So for me to get from Chevy Chase DC to Van Ness, you want me to take Beach Drive? How is that efficient? |
And they rightfully have a lot of cafes that take up sidewalk space. I support that, which is why I also support the bike lanes. More space for people and less for the highway running through out neighborhoods. |
DC streets are quite safe. Only about 40 people per year die on DC streets, out of probably tens of millions of trips. You're 100 times more likely to be a victim of a violent crime, statistics show. It's strange who the boys in spandex act like 4,000 violent crimes per year is a small number, so small that no one really needs to worry about it, but 40 people dying in traffic accidents is a huge number. |
D.C. started building protected bike lanes in 2009. You'd think that after almost 15 years and spending who knows how many billions of dollars on bike lanes, if bicycling was going to catch on, it would have caught on by now. And yet all these bike lanes are mostly empty. The number of people who actually use them is pathetically small. |
I am sorry but why do you not believe her? Is it really so hard to imagine that someone who lives in one of the many many apartment buildings on Connecticut Avenue (or one of the many single family houses right of CT abe) would both post on this site and would want to bike a few miles rather than drive? This is a completely statistically believable claim. |
You could take the L2 bus. Or, you could take the E4 bus. Or, you could walk to one of the metro stations that we paid $10 billion to build just a few decades ago. |