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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
It takes 20 minutes in the morning to drive from the corner of Bradley and Wisconsin to the WH area in the mornings. It takes at least twice as long by bicycle. Ask me how I know. [/quote]

I just checked this on google maps. Driving is a whole 13 minutes faster than biking. Given that biking can take the place of a workout, it’s an even trade most days. [/quote]
It took me 18 minutes this AM (thank you Monday after Thanksgiving!). It will currently take 27 minutes. Google says it’s a 52 minute bicycle ride, however I have done it in 45 minutes in the past and it’s normally 45 minutes on the Red Line + walking if you take transit.

“Even trade” is not close.[/quote]

Obviously, traveling is faster when you just ignore stop signs and every other traffic law....[/quote]

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