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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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 [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.
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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[/quote]

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. [/quote]

It is amazing how much money the city spends on bicyclists. $185 million for bike trails? Are they made of gold?[/quote]

The city spent $4 million building a place at union station for cyclists to tie their bikes up. [/quote]

And DC spends $20 million+ every year just so people have a place to put their trash cans (alleys). [/quote]

Because alleys exist that justifies spending $4 million building something for people to lock their bikes to? You can’t build just build a post for, like, $500?[/quote]

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