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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's time to make Connecticut avenue a grand boulevard that works for people living, working and being around it. Not the cars that drive through.[/quote]

Right.  More drive-through traffic can go on Porter Street or Reno Road.   :shock: [/quote]

DDOT proposed 24/7 parking on CT Ave. That would push more "cut through" traffic than Concept C.

Frumin is trying to avoid that.[/quote]

Yeah, if your main objection to the bike lanes was that they would slow traffic on CT or force more cars off it to neighboring streets, you should not want parking, either. Bike lanes are a better choice [i]from a driver's perspective[/i] than parking, because at least they also keep bikes out of the traffic lanes. [/quote]

There are only 2 dozen bikes a day on Connecticut.  [/quote]

Not sure how you could possibly know that, but either way, you're better off with a bike lane that only 24 people use than you are with 24-hour-a-day parking on both sides of the street, which takes up more space than the bike lane would.[/quote]

And eliminating parking on Connecticut will hurt the businesses there, from dry cleaners to restaurants.
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I'll just leave it to the Council to respond to this inaccurate claim:

"The other major concern voiced by those in opposition to adding bicycle lanes on Connecticut Avenue NW is the impact on local businesses, with the logic being reduced vehicular flow and access results in fewer customers. But a literature review
on this suspected phenomenon suggests otherwise. Studies have found this not to be the case. On the contrary, “perhaps the best-known paper on the economic impacts of bicycle infrastructure, an intercept survey-based examination of various travel mode users in Portland, OR, showed that, on average, cyclists spent more at certain business types and patronized them more often.”48 In sum, the evidence actually suggest that bike lanes may actually decrease traffic congestion while also boosting local businesses."
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That is actually an accurate claim and there are hundreds of studies that back it up. Or we could leave the status quo where the road is a traffic sewer for Maryland commuters who never stop to support DC businesses.[/quote]

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