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This. Is. Why. They. Want. Protected. Lanes. [/quote]

For the dozen bikers each morning?

Why not create a path via side streets closed to commuters? [/quote]
You’re funny because you just have a hard time admitting that you don’t know what you’re talking about but will argue to the death anyway.

Having seen this play out in a few instances, the honest answer to your question is that, whenever bike lanes along the side streets more often than not requires the removal of residential parking spots. For most neighborhoods in DC, this is a third rail. The political opposition becomes almost impossible for DDOT to overcome. Installing bike lanes along mixed zones like Connecticut Ave is actually a lot easier politically for DDOT. Despite the protestations of the MD commuter class, they don't vote in DC elections.[/quote]

You are acting as if dc residents don’t drive to work. They do. [/quote]

A minority of DC commuters drive to work. Check the census stats on this.[/quote]

Not any more. Post-COVID, 49% of commuters drive alone, an increase from 39% in 2019. A further 2% carpool. So now it’s a majority.

But don’t let the facts get in the way of your story. Cool story anyway bro. [/quote]

Interestingly, you don’t accompany these claims with any reference whatsoever.[/quote]
It’s funny that every time you try to use data it just shows how ignorant you are. If you are going to claim to know something, at least know what you are talking about. It’s like you are projecting the fact that you make up stats so you think everyone does. You are obviously not aware of the MWCOG. [/quote]

Lots of angry words. Not a single reference. Without one, we should assume your data is made up.[/quote]
MWCOG = Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

Not surprised that you are unaware of their regional transportation surveys. [/quote]

How nice you can spell out an acronym. Too bad that you've failed yet again to produce a link to an actual survey result.

Also, "Metropolitan Washington" encompasses but is distinct from DC. The Census Bureau is the most reliable source of statistics for the modes used by commuters who live and work in DC. Their statistics disagree with you.[/quote]
I’m not going to provide a link to their website or provide you any other additional info about MWCOG. I’m just going to sit back and watch you continue to make a fool of yourself. LOL. [/quote]

Of course, you're not going to provide a link! It's a rather hard thing to do when you make things up.[/quote]
If you don’t know who the MWCOG and what their role is in regional transportation policy then you have nothing of value to say about this subject. Furthermore, it’s just comical that you cannot even figure out how to use Google to find out for yourself.

It’s like you’re fully committed to ignorance. Which I kind of respect in a way. [/quote]

You don't understand the distinction between DC and the "National Capital Region", do you? So much for ignorance . . .

Also, the 2022 MCWOG statistics you are so enamored with (https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2022/09/20/state-of-the-commute-survey-report--carsharing-state-of-the-commute-telework-travel-surveys/) do not agree with you. See page 14 of the 2022 report.[/quote]
Bravo that you have finally figured out how to use Google. Unfortunately you don’t know how to read. The chart on p.14 includes telework. Baby steps. You’ll get there. [/quote]

This is funny. The sampling frame for the MWCOG survey differs from the reference population in question. But even that survey contradicts your argument. So you just pulled numbers off the top of your head so that you could win a point on some meaningless debate on DCUM?[/quote][/quote]
[b]I don’t have “an argument”.[/b] I have presented survey data from MWCOG that shows that people commuting to work riding alone in cars increased from a pre-pandemic 39% to a current 49%. This was in response to you claiming that a “minority” of DC residents use cars to commute. This is no longer true. You seem to have a serious cognitive problem with this fact, like nervous breakdown level problem, which is hilarious. I’m enjoying it. So keep it up. [/quote]

DP. Well that much is abundantly clear. I've seen better command of logic and rhetoric at middle school forensics competitions, and yet you feel that you're in a position to condescend. Yikes...[/quote]
I know understand what your deal is. You think that life is high school debate club and that facts are malleable in service of some sort of “argument”. I am sorry to disappoint you, but sometimes facts are just facts. Like the fact that the majority of DC residents use cars to get to work in the year 2022. Apparently this is an inconvenient fact to you, but you know, sometimes the truth is scary and we have have to deal with it.[/quote]

NP here, but the fact that most D.C. residents use cars to get to work doesn't automatically mean all transportation policy should be oriented around encouraging driving. Part of the point of changing road design is to make it easier for people who can drive less to do so. Starting from that premise, it doesn't matter that more people drive than bike or take transit.[/quote]
DC has invested hundreds of millions over the past decade in promoting alternate modes, including bikes. The result is that the number of people who prefer to travel via personal car has increased.  🤷‍♀️[/quote]

It's interesting that the city has spent so much time and money promoting bikes and still so few people ride them. The city will buy people bikes, and people are like "no thanks."[/quote]

It's the fastest growing form of transportation in the city. What in the world are you talking about?[/quote]
I’m going to need a citation.[/quote]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-26/how-washington-d-c-built-a-bike-boom

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2020/08/21/904667532/d-c-s-bike-boom-shows-no-signs-of-slowing-down-amid-the-pandemic

https://ggwash.org/view/80233/the-bike-boom-is-real-says-new-mode-share-data-regional-travel-survey[/quote]
None of these links provide any actual data to support your statement that it is the “fastest growing form of transportation in the city”. The MWCOG survey from 2019 to 2022 found no change in the modal share of bicycle commuters.[/quote]

I wonder what else happened between 2019 and 2022 that could have distorted those statistics.[/quote]

You'd think bicycling would have gained on other forms of transportation, if only because people were afraid to be in close quarters with other people on subways, buses, ubers, etc. Instead the share of people biking declined. [/quote]

The share of people commuting in general declined. Are you really this dumb or are you pulling an elaborate prank on the rest of us?[/quote]

And you're bad at logic. Obviously the number of people commuting fell. But you'd expect a bigger share of those who were still commuting to use bikes since people were afraid to use the subway and buses and any other mode of transportation that put them in a close quarters with other people. That should have been a golden opportunity for cycling to pick up market share. Instead the opposite happened. Biking became even less popular, which is pretty astounding. [/quote]
Not only that, driving became even more popular.[/quote]

Drill baby drill!! Let's have more hummers on the road! Yee haw!  We're so cool.[/quote]
Sure. The EV Hummers are pretty cool and thanks to Biden and the Democrats passing the Inflation Reduction Act, they will be more popular on the roads as well.[/quote]

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