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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the title of this thread. "Bike lobby is too strong?"

Uh, how about "road safety lobby is too weak"

If people on bikes are your biggest concern, you must live in the fancy areas of NW, but the city is way bigger than your rich real estate. People driving horrifically is a far bigger issue on my side of town in northeast, I barely encounter a biker on my drive to work and they're the least of my concerns. I do encounter crappy road design and idiot drivers without a care in the world about running stop signs or red lights daily.

If DC does more to keep bikers in separate lanes, what do I care? Are you all those rich NW anti bike people who have nothing better to do than tweet from your fancy $1M+ rowhouses? Ew.[/quote]
Cyclist fatalities (regardless of cause) since 2018 have been either 2 or 3 every year. Never higher, never lower. Pedestrian fatalities are lower today than 2018.

I’m sorry but the data doesn’t back your feelings and it’s interesting what your priorities are when homicides are 110% higher than a decade ago and rising.

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Why don't you care about people being injured?

Also, Vision Zero is meant to address[b] driver safety[/b] also.[/quote]

They don't care because they live in rich parts of NW while being paranoid about crime happening in other parts of the city where they don't live anyways. So they spend time complaining about bike lanes while folks in the rest of the city that aren't easily metro accessible deal with crappy street design, crappy drivers, and actually deal with the crime. The folks with these anti-bike threads are ridiculous, and again, I don't even bike, I drive! If the city does more to help keep bikers in separate lanes, good! If the city also does more to help reduce speeds on streets and actually hold drivers accountable for crappy driving, good![/quote]

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