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DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic

So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?[/quote]

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.[/quote]

Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes.  Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections.  So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted.  DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.  [/quote]

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The basic difference between what is proposed and "Option C" is an additional lane for parking.

The downside here is that without a facility for bikes, scooters etc, and with buses using the right side travel lane, it will be a mess because cars will be stuck behind both the cyclists and the buses, killing any throughput advantage that might have been gained with bike lanes.

The pedestrain safety components are roughly the same.

And Reno Road as an alternative is a non-starter. Too narrow and hilly, with no obvious destinations. You will still have cyclists using ConnAve because that is where the shops, library etc are located.[/quote]

There aren't enough bicylists to matter.  There is no throughput advantage to bike lanes.[/quote]

There could be a million cyclists and it still wouldn't matter to you.[/quote]

There could be a million bicyclists and they would still insist they didn't see any.[/quote]

My opinion is irrelevent.  The simple fact of the matter is that there aren't millions, thousands, or even hundreds of bicyclists on Connecticut Ave.[/quote]

I am not sure there are even dozens of bicyclists on the Avenue each day.  Not from my experience.[/quote]

there would be SO MANY if bike lanes got put in, especially people taking citi bikes and scooters to and from the Zoo, too and from metro.[/quote]

So instead of walking from the metro they are going to shuttle 15 citibikes up and down 3 blocks?  How does that help anything?  It costs more money, takes more time, increases traffic, is worse exercise, has a higher carbon footprint and is logistically impossible for a group size greater than 10.[/quote]

Now we're back to thinking that everyone has your preferences. You would prefer to walk. That's fine. [/quote]

Not my preferences.  It is straight forward logic.  Let's pretend that you are a chaperone taking a single class on a visit to the zoo.  With additional chaperones we're talking about 30 people.  You can have everybody walk 3 blocks for free or you can pay to rent all the citibikes at the metro and still not have enough for everyone. [/quote]

Now let's pretend you're one of the millions of zoo visitors who is going to the zoo and is not a chaperone taking a single class.[/quote]
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I'm still walking 3 blocks from the metro because walking is free.[/b]

You've created a solution in search of a problem.  A statement which is at the very heart of this debate.
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That's fine. Nobody is stopping you from choosing to walk. The point is for people to have choices.[/quote]

At a certain point too many choices becomes untenable.  Walk, metro, bus, drive private, ride share.  That’s plenty of choices.  [/quote]

And bike. And e-scooter. And skateboard. And wheelchair. And mobility scooter. And... How would there be too many choices, and who gets to decide how many is too many?[/quote]

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