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I am a driver and a biker and [b]I am happy to share the road with other driver[/b]s.  I am also rational and know that  commuters from Manassas, Burke, Centreville, and Woodbridge cannot bike to their jobs at the Army Headquarters if Seminary Road.  Nor can residents from Kenwood Nursing Home, Goodwin House, Washington House, and Claridge House ride bikes to INOVA Alexandria Hospital.

If hundreds of bikers were waiting for these bike lanes, why are they so heavily unused.   Or did you use the tired meme “if you build it, they will come” on the reliably gullible Del and Justin?

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No, you're not. Because another way to say "sharing the road with other drivers" is "sitting in traffic." And nobody is happy to sit in traffic. Just read the complaints on this thread!

The presence of bike lanes enables people to go places safely by bike. The presence of bike lanes does not require everyone to always go everywhere by bike.[/quote]

you are very presumptuous to interpret what sharing the road with other drivers means to me.  It simply means that other thousands of other drivers and I are using roads together  I do not mind sitting in traffic.  It is part of urban life

So roads are to be used constantly by many while bike lanes are to be used for a privileged few as they wish to use them.

Again, if bike lanes are so desirable, why aren’t they used?

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According to Census data almost 2% of Alexandria residents who work commute by bike, predominantly (IE does not include those who commute by bike sometimes, but more often by another mode, or those who bike to a metro station).

According to data from the Metro Washington Council of Govts, about 7% of households in Alexandria have someone who biked on a weekday (which usually means for transportation) in any given week.

Bike lanes in Alexandria are used.  Some are less used than others, in part because they are located to help calm traffic and b buffer pedestrians.  Which is the case with Seminary Road.  Whether they have succeeded in reducing speeding we will find out when the City presents data.  [/quote]

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