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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I drive a hybrid vehicle,[/b] and will never, like the vast majority of other dc residents, use a bicycle as my primary method of transportation. I am disabled and the bike lobby doesn’t care about anyone but themselves. They have proven themselves to be a self centered entitled bunch of jerks. Sore losers, all. [/quote]

Yeah, you've posted about your hybrid, repeatedly. Hybrid vehicles use less gasoline, which is good, but other than that, hybrid vehicles create all the same environmental harms as gasoline vehicles.

Plus, you don't have to use a bicycle as your primary method of transportation to benefit. In fact, the more people bike, the fewer people you will sit in traffic with when you drive.

However, it would be a mistake to assume that there are no disabled people in the All-Powerful Bicycle Lobby and/or that the All-Powerful Bicycle Lobby has no disabled people. Not all disabled people can bike, but there are disabled people who cannot drive but can bike. Here's one: https://annazivarts.com/

Now, have the needs of disabled people (including disabled people who bike) always been properly accounted for, by the designers of bike infrastructure, transportation departments, and members of the All-Powerful Bicycle Lobby? Absolutely not, to everyone's shame.  But that's true for EVERYTHING, not just bike infrastructure. Furthermore, it absolutely is possible to design and build bike infrastructure that properly accounts for the needs of disabled people (including disabled people who bike), and that's what DC should be doing.[/quote]

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