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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish we could be like Amsterdam but we have hills and disgusting summers. You'll never have a critical mass of bike commuters because it is hugely impractical for office workers. I wish they would invest more in public transit.[/quote]

Hate this aspect of Amsterdam.  Pedestrians are routinely put at risk as they have to cross the "bike highways" to get out of the street before the light changes, or are being dropped off somewhere by their uber.  Definitely not relaxing to go walking down the street.
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And somehow the Dutch have survived. Everyone rides a bike in Holland. Drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists are all the same people at different times of the day. Everyone understands the norms and rules. It's only self-absorbed tourists that don't understand what's what.

That being said, DC will never be Amsterdam. And it's delusional to think otherwise. The bicycle mafia in DC - all twelve of them - are a huge hindrance to the efficient movement of people in DC. Their preciousness and their influence over the DC Council has been an enormous burden on the quality of life in DC. Invest in public transportation. It's not complicated. Why do a handful of rando cyclists have so much sway over a metropolitan area of 6.5 million people?  [/quote]

DC will never be Amsterdam as long as the city has a self-centered, visionless mayor who derives her positions from the direction of the breeze, as long as the director of transportation knows nothing about transportation policy other than what she is told over the phone by random real estate developers, as long as the constituencies served by a handful of DC council members include large portions of counties across Maryland and Virginia, and as long as upgrades of DC’s transportation infrastructure to safeguard the lives of DC residents are viciously opposed by a cabal of freaks who have been singing plaintive dirges for the past 53 years in memory of the death of the Three Sisters Bridge project.[/quote]

But mostly because we have a hilly terrain, sprawl, icy winters, and hot and humid summers.[/quote]

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