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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the bike lobby is so powerful that few new bike lanes have been installed and now the city is taking some away.[/quote]

Yeah, this new move with the Arizona Avenue lanes should dispel once and for all the myth of the all-powerful bike lobby. No one who rides a bike in this city would recognize the wild story people on here tell about how much clout cyclists have in D.C. politics anyway, but at least now there's tangible proof.[/quote]

I mean, obviously, the bike lobby is powerful. the government has spend *billions* of dollars over the years to subsidize the hobby of a small number of upper income white men (this, in a city where one quarter of children live in poverty). now the tide is turning and, hopefully, most of the bike lanes will eventually be removed. [/quote]

Lol none of these are true.  Not the billions of dollars, not the hobby part, not the upper income, not the white, not the men.

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I'm sorry the facts hurt your feelings. You can just look at the city's budget or basically any transportation survey. You have to be pretty well off to be able to live within biking distance of where you need to go. [/quote]

How do you get hurt feelings from someone refuting your false statement?  What a random red herring. “Someone disagrees with me so that person must have had his feeling hurt”[/quote]

No one refuted anything. They just said "nuh uh." You can just look at the most recent commuting survey by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (it's the gold standard). In it, you'll find that the number of people commuting by bike is shrinking (while people commuting by car is way up). You'll see bicyclists tend to work and live in the core of DC (need to make some decent cash to do that). You'll see that the biggest share of bicyclists make at least $180,000. You'll see there are very, very, VERY few black or hispanic bicyclists. Everyone already knows this of course, but for those of you who like to pretend otherwise. You can also just look at the city's budget or even press releases about the budget. This is a city that will spend $100 million building *one* bridge for cyclists.

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