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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The premise of a lot of cycling people is that there is pent up demand of people who want to bicycle but who don’t because they feel unsafe.

What if people just don’t like riding bicycles? It’s seems like an impossible thing for these pro-bike people to fathom.

One of the most supposedly most successful bike paths in the country is the CCT.  Even on its best days of the year it’s a fraction of one lane of average daily traffic volume on any basic arterial road. The other successful bike in the city, the 15th Street cycletrack, on peak days does not even replace 25% of the average daily traffic volume of the one lane that it replaced. Meanwhile, cyclist complain that they feel unsafe because the two way traffic is too narrow and they are lobbying to widen it.

The fact is, even successful bicycle infrastructure is extremely inefficient and wasteful use of public resources in doing the thing that transportation infrastructure is supposed to do, move people around quickly.

Sooner or later smart cities will come to this conclusion too.[/b] [/quote]

The proof is in the pudding. Look at bike lanes in the city. They're empty. People simply aren't using them. We can't dedicate all of our resources to the tiny number of white people who are really into bikes. [/quote]

If there aren’t any other choices, they’ll start using bikes. Also there will be more business around bikes, like hiring stations etc.[/quote]

And rickshaws.

There’s no reason that DC should be contributing to global warming so much like it is. It’s completely hypocritical.[/quote]
First, if you take away choice and provide no other options, like clean and efficient transit, people (and businesses) do have a choice which is to leave and they are doing that already anyway. Second, let’s stop for a minute and ponder how ridiculous the proposition is that your plan to address climate change is rickshaws instead of clean and efficient mass transit. [/quote]

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