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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread was disheartening.  Just wanted to add my own anecdotal experience and observation. Firstly, I'm surprised at the lack of discussion about climate change- didn't seem to factor in much.  For me, learning from bike advocates opened my eyes to the fact it's not only about bikes it's more about rapid bus Lanes and better public transit, so I think the idea that bike advocates are all white men is a bit outdated.
 Also I do bike commute almost every day (own a car, have a child in a WOTR school,  and live EOTR, but within Metro range.)
I see SOOO many families biking, that's what made me want an ebike. Ebikes are seeing a huge growth in demand so yes, people ARE biking, and not for recreation.  In better weather I see dozens of families on e cargo bikes each direction, on trails, lanes, streets, etc.  The numbers increase each year, I've been biking in DC for over 20 years. Also, I took public transit from SE to NW high school, and yes kids carried their backpacks, gym bags, violins and yes, gasp, lunch on the train and bus, on their person. Humans are built to haul and carry. I think this thread must be heavily dominated by commuting suburbanites because some of the observations are just off. They should be advocating for better rapid rail systems to bring them in, and safe streets once they arrive so they can walk to their destination.[/quote]

Yes, they should. And for school buses to bring their kids to school, which would eliminate about half of DC's morning traffic.

But DC's streetcar was a massive failure. The purple line is a boondoggle.

I grew UP taking the trolley to the subway. Light rail is not that complicated. But people in this area are wedded to their cars. Some of it is a class thing. Only poor people take the bus... And for the person who said my commuting system on the bus isn't unusual... You're a sweet summer child. That's the case for all the kids crossing the Anacostia for school. DC is only ten miles wide, perhaps, but its transit has not been designed to bring people across neighborhoods. It's convenient to go downtown, yes, less so to a charter school located in Brookland or Petworth. It isn't only that the buses don't always stop near the school, it's that they are timed for kids to be able to catch them after school. It's that there aren't crossing guards across the busy roads where kids have to catch the buses. And these kids DO spend an hour plus doing these commutes. True, so did my friends who went to Bronx Science... But that's because they were crossing NYC. And their hour-plus commuted didn't include twenty minutes of standing on the side of Michigan Ave in the rain waiting for a bus that was going to be late because of the rain.

DC has a horrible transit system. Since only poor people take it, you have no idea how it is beyond the tourist metro stops and the circulator.

And I haven't even touched on crime. [/quote]

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