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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars.  Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers. 
Promote social distancing.[/quote]

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks[/quote]

Everybody agrees, including people who ride bikes. (With an exception for children biking on the sidewalk.) All the more reason to make it safe and comfortable for people to bike on the street. People who bike tend to be the foremost advocates of making streets safe and comfortable to bike on.[/quote]

Uh, I’m a cyclist and I definitely DO NOT agree with that. I ride sidewalks because many streets aren’t safe. No bike lane? I’m riding on the sidewalk, I don’t care what other cyclists say.

You go ahead and challenge traffic and be an activist-cyclist. I’m gonna stay alive. [/quote]

Re-read the statement you're disagreeing with, please - because you're actually agreeing with it.

You're not riding on the sidewalk by choice. You're riding on the sidewalk because the road isn't safe to bike on. [b]The solution is to make the roads safe to bike on.[/b][/quote]

This is like saying boxing or football should be made safe. They will never be safe.

Neither will riding a bicycle in Washington D.C. Bicyclists seem to have an amazing false sense of security. If you're a bicyclist in DC, you're probably more likely to die being hit by a car than any other cause of death. [/quote]

What are you, the ghost of John Forester? Of course it's possible to make roads safe to bike on.[/quote]

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