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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Time.

People won’t bike to work because it takes additional time to bike and shower at work. Like a lot of time.

ICYMI: we have staff who are kvetching about the lost time of commuting by car since we drafted them back into the office after covid. They want to work from home because the commute is a time suck.

Do you really think those people will magically opt to bike to work? As if. [/quote]

It takes less time for me to bike to work than to drive or take public transit. [/quote]

Do you live in Moco or NoVA? Close in?

I’ve lived in MoCo and commuted to DC (White House area) for nearly 25 years. Post-covid, very few people take metro. Nobody takes the bus. Everyone drives for convenience, health and now safety reasons. The handful of people who biked to work retired; 3 lived in DC, and the other lived in close-in MoCo. A couple young colleagues ride bikes or scooters to work occasionally depending on weather. They live downtown.

This “solution” on CT Ave is ridiculous. It will only benefit a select few who are already living near a bus line.

I wonder if the “solution” was proposed by privileged people who don’t want to use the bus. [/quote]

I also work in the WH area and live a mile or two from the MD /DC line. During the morning commute, biking is much faster for me than driving or taking the bus. It's not even close. The same would hold true for anyone who lives reasonably close to the Capitol Crescent Trail or the various trails in NoVA.[/quote]

You live close enough to bike and you opt for the fastest commute.

Makes sense.

It also makes sense for those of us who live more than a mile from the dc border to take the faster option…a car.

Bikes will slow down the commute for everyone on the bus and in cars. And more bikers will result in more bike accidents…that’s just math.

I’ve been hit by two bikers on CT Ave. Both times I had been stopped at a light when they hit me. [/quote]

And?  Cars slow down the commute for pedestrians and buses. Do you care?  If you choose to live further out you get the benefit of a bigger house or better school district or other amenities. It isn’t DC’s job to cater to you until the end of time [/quote]

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