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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you imagine what it would be like if cycling was actually popular in DC?

PARIS — On a recent afternoon, the Rue de Rivoli looked like this: Cyclists blowing through red lights in two directions. Delivery bike riders fixating on their cellphones. Electric scooters careening across lanes. Jaywalkers and nervous pedestrians scrambling as if in a video game.

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood, braced for the tumult. She looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year. “Politicians want to make Paris a cycling city, but no one is following any rules,” she said. “It’s becoming risky just to cross the street!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world/europe/paris-bicyles-france.html#:~:text=In%20Paris%2C%20parts%20of%20the,bike%20lanes%20weave%20through%20traffic.[/quote]

Lawless cyclists are not such a big problem in DC because there aren't that many of them. But hard to imagine what it would be like if lots of people starting biking. [/quote]

Bicyclists acting cautiously and in their own interests are not a small “problem” for DC; they are a non-existent problem in comparison to all the illegal ATVs and motocross bikes doing whatever the hell they want in DC while MPD does nothing about the issue.

So everyone just STFU about bicycles.  MYOB, cage-drivers.[/quote]

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