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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly how many people are driving on those streets at the same time?[/quote]
Exactly. Those streets are getting more traffic volume of cars and buses in one day than the number of cyclists in one month. Hoarding valuable pulkic resources for a select few individuals is indefensible.[/quote]

You neglected to include numbers. But a little back of the envelope math says that you're off by a significant margin. Traffic counts in surrounding street put numbers at about 15-20k per day, averaging out to maybe 5k vehicles per travel lane at most (I'm looking at 2018 numbers, so pre-pandemic, which is probably more generous to cars). A bike lane takes up a fraction of the space of a car travel lane though, so a more reasonable comparison is probably on the order of 5-10 to 1 right now. As our bike infrastructure evolves, that ratio will continue to go down. Plus, bike infrastructure slows down drivers, which makes it harder for them to kill pedestrians, and makes the streets more pleasant for everyone else.[/quote]

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