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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Buses travel an average of 12 mph, so pretty reasonable to have buses and bikes together.[/quote] 
Assuming that this is even true, if you delay a bus behind a bicycle then the average travel time would be even lower. This would make bus travel unusuable as a form of transit because it would then be faster to walk. [/quote]

You mean what car traffic does to buses?  Bikes don't do that.[/quote]
Keep up. The PP was discussing the shared bus/bike lanes, which are obviously anti-bus. In any case, cars also go faster than bicycles. Hope this helps. [/quote]

Oh I'm keeping up. It's just your "logical" seems like a lot of theoretical conjecture that doesn't actually take place in real life.  The actual situation in DC is that buses are held up by car traffic, not bikes.[/quote]
“theoretical conjecture”? Every piece of available data says that people do not prefer to bicycle. The conjecture is that there is pent up demand that will be induced if there were more bike lanes. There is zero evidence to support this in DC. Not a single bike lane in DC has seen an increase in utilization over time. The proportion of people who [i]occasionally[/i] bicycle to work has also not increased over time. Lastly, there is nothing “theoretical” about the problem of sharing bus and bike lanes. The problems are obvious and very real.[/quote]

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