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If it's too hard to drive downtown, people will just stop going downtown. It's as simple as that. Sucks but it's true. At some point, businesses downtown will rebel and force the city the tear out all these bike lanes. [/quote]

If it's too hard to drive downtown, people will stop driving downtown. It's as simple as that.

Fixed that for you.[/quote]

It's silly to think that, if you deliberately make traffic downtown terrible, people will switch to some other form of transportation. [b]Most people regard riding a bike as incredibly dangerous, incredibly inconvenient or both. [/b]And the public has turned rather decisively against the metro system (which to me seems like the real problem with DC transportation. The Metro has the potential to solve a whole lot of problems but, instead, everyone has learned to hate it). People will just work more from home and/or go to other parts of the DMV instead of downtown.  [/quote]

The purpose of bike lanes is to make it safe and convenient to use a bike for transportation.[/quote]

Well, it's still neither. [/quote]

You not thinking a bike is safe or convenient does not make it actually dangerous or inconvenient. When I ride my bike to work from upper NW, it takes about the same amount of time to get there as taking Metro does and about 8 minutes more to get home than Metro. Hardly a big deal convenience-wise. And in about 10 years of bike-commuting, I've been in exactly two accidents -- one when an Uber driver hit me at about 5 mph (while I was in a bike lane), and once when I slammed on my brakes and crashed deliberately into the road to avoid hitting a kid who ran out between parked cars in the middle of the block. I was basically fine both times. Meanwhile, in the same span of time, I've been rear-ended in a car three times by drivers who didn't notice that the light I was stopped at was red. Which makes bike commuting safer than driving in terms of sheer number of accidents.[/quote]

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