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Well, there's more than one way traffic can get worse, isn't there? One is obviously is you increase the number of cars. The other is if you decreases the capacity of streets to accommodate traffic. The latter is what happens when you add bike lanes -- you reduce the amount of car traffic the road can handle. You can end up with worse traffic even if the total number of cars has declined. [/quote]

But the purpose of the transportation system isn't to move cars. It's to move people.[/quote]

Most people in DC drive (and remember: most commuters in DC actually live in Maryland or Virginia). [/quote]

Most people in MD and VA drive.

Most people in DC don't. A lot do, but not most.[/quote]
Actually, the majority of DC residents also drive to work. The numbers that take transit and walk are substantially higher than MD or VA though. [/quote]

Wrong. Only a very slight plurality of Washingtonians used a car to get to work. The share of Washingtonians who take public transit, bike, or walk is rather higher than the share who drive: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ACSST1Y2019.S0801&g=0400000US11&tid=ACSST1Y2019.S0801&hidePreview=true[/quote]

You can't just look at DC-only data, because most commuters in DC are actually from Virginia or Maryland.  You get less than half the picture looking at DC-only data. [/quote]

And yet you (or a PP with a similar mindset) made the claim that the majority of DC residents drive to work. Now you're moving the goalposts. Can [i]anyone[/i] against bike lanes make an intellectually honest argument?[/quote]

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