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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington Post goes after bike lanes:

"The city has built about 20 miles of bike lanes in the past five years, but despite that, the portion of D.C. residents who bike to work peaked in 2017 and has decreased each year since, falling from 5 percent to 3 percent. So who are these lanes for?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/20/bicycle-lanes-dc-traffic/[/quote]

Bike lanes are "weapons of civic planning: They are often installed not to satisfy the barely measurable trickle of residents who pedal to work but mainly to make car traffic worse enough that people will be discouraged from driving."

Very true, and also very dumb. [b]If you make driving miserable in one neighborhood, I'll just stop going to that neighborhood.[/b] There are lots of others to choose from. [/quote]

So, to the extent that traffic calming equals "make driving miserable", traffic calming works!

Although as a driver, I actually [u]prefer[/u] driving on traffic-calmed streets, but that's because I don't drive faster than the speed limit and also don't want to hit people.[/quote]

[b]I dont think traffic calming works.[/b] It just moves traffic elsewhere. DDOT completely screwed up an intersection near me in the name of traffic calming, and now cars go racing through the alleys to avoid it. That seems far more dangerous. [/quote]

You're entitled to your opinion, even when the facts don't support it.[/quote]

The facts say that traffic deaths, accidents, congestion, and resident dissatisfaction have all increased since this plan has been implemented.[/quote]

The facts? Here's the city's stats on what it calls "speed-related fatalities." Point out for us when traffic calming started reducing speed-related deaths.

2022 -- 9
2021 -- 12
2020 -- 15
2019  -- 10
2018 -- 9
2017 -- 12
2016 -- 8
2015 -- 11
2014 -- 12
2013 -- 11
2012 -- 5
2011 -- 15
2010 -- 8 
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I presume you just made these numbers up. They certainly do not match the statistics on the DC Vision Zero webpage: https://visionzero.dc.gov/pages/d72dcdefd15e4285b4a36682a836a8ea[/quote]

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