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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah this is so politically toxic if they bring it back. Bike lanes that very very few people would use, as a utopian solution for cars, traffic, pedestrian deaths, the planet, equity, you name it. The whole "you are a bad, dumb person if you oppose this!" vibe was insufferable.

And normie District residents and businesses finally said this is silly, the emperor has no clothes.

Bike lanes can work great in the right places. But they are not a catch-all magical solution.

And in this case they would come with significant impacts and only fuzzy upsides. Longer commutes for workers and students, slower busses (!!!), problems for businesses, new dangers for pedestrians, more traffic on side streets. Any doubleparked CVS or FedEx truck (and they will double park!) moves from a minor inconvenience to a major traffic and safety headache.

Reminds me a bit of "pedstrianized streets" in the 70s. In the right places, they work great -- but in front of the MLK Library, for instance, they become the an open urinal. In other places (across from the press gallery?), they just killed street life. And they smartly got torn out.[/quote]

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