Bikes lanes poorly designed - unsafe for drivers and bikers

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

I saw someone with what looked like a five year old riding on their handlebars on a really busy street in the middle of rush hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

Occasionally I make stuff up on the internet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

This would not actually be safer, for the record.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Biking is awesome and great in places like Rock Creek park. Biking doesn't help with things like school drop offs and pick ups, and buying and transportin groceries for an entire family. It's also pretty crummy during inclement weather.

No one with a high level job or kids is biking to work. Bike lanes do nothing for traffic

No one you know. Maybe get outside of your bubble.

Occasionally I see parents transporting their little kids in the rear baskets of their cargo bikes, without restraints or helmets. It would be safer to put them in the flat bed of a pickup and drive fast down the highway. Child Services should deal with these situations. It's reckless endangerment of children.

I saw someone with what looked like a five year old riding on their handlebars on a really busy street in the middle of rush hour.

I saw someone with a kid on their bike riding *on the yellow line* of one of those extremely busy streets named after a state

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I saw a person eating and texting in their car with their kid in the front seat with it. I was able to get a real close look bc they ran a red a light and almost hit me on my bike.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

Yuck

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

+1

Just think how much money has been spent on repaving roads this summer and what that could do for those poor people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a person eating and texting in their car with their kid in the front seat with it. I was able to get a real close look bc they ran a red a light and almost hit me on my bike.

I saw a Porsche owner trying to go through Georgetown on M street from Key Bridge headed east who was so impatient that he cut off a cyclist when moving from the left to right lane and gunned his Porsche only to get stopped like 100ft later at a red light. Cool beans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

+1

Just think how much money has been spent on repaving roads this summer and what that could do for those poor people.

You know why roads need constant repaving, right? Give you a hint, its not the bicycles, lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe get off you posterior, get a bike, and get on with life. Biking is awesome. There are all kinds of different outfits you can buy. It's like being in a motorcycle gang - but without polluting the environment.

Maybe recognize that some people have disabilities and health issues that prevent them from riding bikes

This. Several elderly people used the spots in front of Wagshals to park so they could walk in 10 feet to pick up food. Now they have nowhere to park and have to walk blocks. For elderly that is a big deal.

They can park in the garage for free. They can park across the street at meters. They can even park 50 yards up in front of Starbucks.

No one ever suggested reserving the eliminated spots for the elderly or the disabled. Indeed they were mainly used by people working in the offices who could feed the meters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

+1

Just think how much money has been spent on repaving roads this summer and what that could do for those poor people.

You know why roads need constant repaving, right? Give you a hint, its not the bicycles, lol.

Is it the heavy electric cars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

+1

Just think how much money has been spent on repaving roads this summer and what that could do for those poor people.

You know why roads need constant repaving, right? Give you a hint, its not the bicycles, lol.

Is it the heavy electric cars?

It's the regular non-electric cars, currently, but you're right, the electric cars will make it worse. Yet another reason it makes fiscal sense to reassign space in the roads from cars to bicycles and buses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

$4 million!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Poorly designed bike infrastructure? Is there any other kind?

The Washington Post had a story the other day on how the city spent $4 million to build an entire building at union station for cyclists to lock their bikes (a pole wouldn’t suffice?). Now that absurd building has been padlocked because no one uses it.

Good thing DC doesn’t have any poor people and we can afford to blow $4 million on such silly ideas

$4 million!

Nothing in that article says it was unused. It was mismanaged and padlocked for dc’s nonpayment of rent. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2023/09/02/union-station-dc-bicycles-lawsuit/