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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]
Are disabled people suing because cars are parked in “protected bike lanes”? It’s honestly pretty disturbing that you can be so self centered as to think that the “solution” is to improve your experience using bike lanes. Do you bother to listen to yourself?

Furthermore, the Plaintiffs are clear and say repeatedly that they DO NOT believe that bike lanes are incompatible with the needs of the disabled. [/quote]
Leave it to cyclists to make everything about them. That’s sort of the problem and why this lawsuit happened in the first place. [/quote]

No, the lawsuit happened because the District failed to design the bike lanes in an appropriate manner. It is absolutely possible to put in bike lanes that are compatible with the needs of people with disabilities. The city just screwed it up here. [/quote]
Breaking the law by not accommodating people with disabilities in the design of the bike lanes was not an accident. It was intentional. It was a choice. And that’s why the lawsuit happened. The guy that directs the bike lane program should probably lose his job.

“Simms says disability advocates have brought these concerns to the mayor’s office and the D.C. Department of Transportation before. “It’s been crickets so far,” he says.”
https://dcist.com/story/22/11/23/disability-groups-file-federal-lawsuit-against-d-c-over-protected-bike-lanes/[/quote]

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