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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple things:

1. The number of people riding bikes is not increasing every year. DC DDOT publishes the data. This is just not true.

2. Every sq inch of public right of way that is dedicated to protected bike lanes with low utilization is a waste of public resources. The funds used to create these lanes would be better dedicated to creating dedicated bus lanes. [/quote]

You keep talking about the data, but the data is practically worthless as there is only data from barely a dozen locations, with no sensors and no data at all for some of the busiest bike corridors in the city.  It is not valid to draw any conclusions from the data.

Also, DC *is* creating dedicated bus lanes.

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They have a currently unfunded plan to do so. Meanwhile they are busy taking advantage of a public health crisis throwing up protected bike lanes everywhere  to take away road lanes. This is despite WMATA themselves saying that they cannot return to prepandemic levels of service.

DC thinks this is going to “encourage” people to bike, but the recent bike lanes around GWU which is a university and who have been in session all year is a good indicator that is a pipe dream for even a target audience for bicycling.

Instead, the path of least resistance is that people will just avoid downtown. This group includes businesses. It’s incredible that DC could very well be snuffing out it’s COVID recovery to pander to a vocal minority who are evangelical about a niche hobby.

If they used the crisis to make big investments in transit I’d have more hope. Because that’s actually smart, sensible and will have an actual and real positive impact on the economy and climate change. [/quote]

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