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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same mindset is thinking and planning bike lane for South Dakota Ave. NE.  IT is Time to recall all these politicians.[/quote]

Why shouldn't SD Ave have a bike lane? It is a ridiculously dangerous road with very narrow sidewalks.[/quote]

Its more a question of priorities. If you can only build X miles of bike lanes a year, is this the one you want to do? Why?[/quote]

I think anyone who has observed how DDOT operates knows by now that the determining factor in selecting routes for bike lanes is their assessment of the strength of the opposition, which is almost always related to how many residential parking spaces will have to be removed. That is, they seem to be - on the whole - selecting streets which are either wide enough to accommodate a bike lane without any loss of parking or travel lanes (e.g., Arizona Ave NW) or where there is no residential parking at all (e.g., Dalecarlia Parkway NW or that silly bike lane in the back lot of Union Market). Sometimes these proposals make sense and sometimes they make very little sense - Dalecarlia being a good case in point. But we can be almost certain about is that DDOT is not planning bike lanes primarily based on how they fit into a network or whether they will be helpful for cyclists.[/quote]

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