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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are studies showing that safe bike infrastructure encourages ridership.  Transportation Research Board: Dill, Jennifer, and Carr, Theresa. 2003. Bicycle commuting and facilities in major US cities – if you
build them, commuters will use them – another look. Transportation Research Record. 116-123[/quote]
DDOTDC has the actual data. Your studies are not relevant. There is no appreciable increase in bike lane utilization over time in DC.

September is the most active month for bicycling. The 15th Street Cycletrack is the post popular bike lane in the city and one of the only bike lanes in the city to justify its existence and its ridership has only increased by 2.5% per year from 2015 to 2019. Meanwhile, again, only looking at pre-pandemic, the 11 ST NW bike lane saw a 10% decrease in utilization from September 2017 to September 2019.

But the impact of the pandemic has been devastating. There was an average of only 38 cyclists per day using the 11 ST NW bike lane in January 2022. Utilization of the Met Branch trail has declined 75% over the past to years. Utilization of the 1st ST NW bike lane decreased 80% from September 2019 to 2020.

The only signs of improved utilization is not from conversion of streets to bike lanes but recreational trails. The Anacostia River Trail is showing excellent and growing utilization year over year for recreation purposes, with the highest utilization on weekends.

So the obvious answer for DC is to forget adding more bike lanes and to look for opportunities to add more trails for recreation. East Potomac Park would be a great example.
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