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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With any luck, the lawsuit will be upheld and the city will be forced to remedy the situation by raising the bike lanes to the same level as the sidewalk (as on Virginia Ave SE and The Wharf). This will have the added benefit of preventing cars and other motorized vehicles from parking or driving in them.[/quote]

How will that solve the problem?[/quote]

It would solve the problem of cars parking and driving in bike lanes very much. It would also provide parked / stopped vehicles with direct access to the curb. Set the bike lane back a few feet from the curb and add a sidewalk across the lane and it's as good as gold. Some other ideas here: https://www.ourstreetsmpls.org/ada_compliant_protected_bike_lanes. I'm not here to be an apologist for DDOT, who mess many things up, but the notion that bike lanes are generally incompatible with the ADA is just silly.[/quote]

No one here has said that.  The suit doesn't say that.  The suit says that specific sections of bike lanes as currently constructed in DC aren't compatible with the ADA.

But the problem isn't cars parking and driving in bike lanes.  The problem this thread is about is that cars can't get close to the curb and wheelchairs and ramps need to be set up in bike lanes.  Raising the lane doesn't solve that at all.

That doesn't mean that there isn't some solution that includes raised lanes, but simply raising the existing lanes is not a solution to this problem.

I'll note that if I'm unloading my kid, and there's a bike lane between the parking lane and the sidewalk, I'd much rather move my van into the bike lane and extend the ramp from there (getting it to the curb), because my van is much easier for a cyclist to see and stop, whereas, it's easy to miss the end of the extended ramp, especially since it's going to still be extended while I walk my kid all the way down to the curb cut.  [/quote]

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