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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did the survey and de prioritized buses.  But prioritized intersection and sidewalk improvements. If people are not taking them currently then there would be a use case. Giving them a whole lane of traffic and fancy stops will not encourage more use in the future. Just look at the dedicated lane from Potomac Yard to Crystal City, while it’s nice to see infrastructure improvements of any kind, that thing is not exactly drawing a lot of riders. [/quote]

If you want to talk about competing priorities, the dedicated bus lane forces cyclists into sharing the single lane with cars from Potomac to Crystal City Drive. Safety...right...

Against signage otherwise, I now encourage everyone to just use the bus lane which is often empty...which they have to share anyway 1000 feet north.[/quote]

Yeah, that's not competing priorities. There could be bike lanes AND bus lanes, if somebody were willing to reassign some of the road space currently assigned to cars.[/quote]

Spoken like a planner who hasn’t actually been to this intersection, ridden a bike, or looked a map.

Crystal Drive is one lane each way, and then your precious and empty bus lane. Next are the sidewalks. Would you like the sidewalks too? There isn’t space for everything, which is why cyclists are forced into the car lane, and then back into the bus lane.

If youre so pro bus, and there is a lane here, hand over your car and delete uber.[/quote]

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