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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.fox5dc.com/news/connecticut-avenue-bike-lane-plan-faces-opposition

They're eliminating two lanes on Connecticut freaking Avenue.  That is honestly one of the stupidest decisions ever made by the DC Government.[/quote]
Is it just me or is it totally insane to promote higher density while intentionally removing transportation infrastructure.

I could see removing a lane for a bus lane, but a bike lane is insane. CT Ave goes up a steep hill. I hear a lot about the Netherlands model. You know what the Netherlands doesn’t have? Hills. By all means turn the Old City, that’s mostly flat, into a bike utopia. This seems like an intentional plan to make upper CT an undesirable place to live which is consistent with other DC government behaviors, like the housing homeless in apartment buildings and hotels in the same area. I guess the plan is to intentionally impoverish the area so it can be redeveloped?[/quote]

The city is intentionally making traffic worse because they think that will prompt people to switch to bikes. That's obviously ridiculous. People will just leave or stop going to parts of the city where it's hard to get around. [/quote]

Not to mention the fact that there is no chance anyone in the bike lanes is going to stop for a pedestrian regardless of what the law is or what color traffic lights are. 
The idea that I am going to bike to the small businesses along CT Avenue is absurd.  In a funny way, adding bike lanes will benefit suburban malls (which I historically have tried to avoid) as one can drive and park and do multiple errands.  [/quote]

If we're going to argue entirely by first-person anecdote, I will chime in to say that I routinely bike to small businesses on Connecticut and Wisconsin avenues, because errands within two miles of my house are the perfect thing to bike to instead of driving. [/quote]

The bigger issue is that tens of thousands of people use these roads every day. How many people use these bike lanes? Some of these lanes aren't even used by 10 people a day. [/quote]

30,000 use this road each day
DDOT estimates that 7,000 of them will start using the side streets instead
In addition, the 2 lanes in each direction will frequently become 1 lane because of left hand turns and deliveries.

It will be harder to cross the street because of the increased vehicle density and less safe to walk because of the massively increased residential traffic.  Everyone loses under this plan.[/quote][/quote]

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