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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bike, I walk, I drive, and I take the bus.  I support safe and efficient modes of transit.  But, we have to build the transit infrastructure for future--whatever we want that to be--not the past or the status quo.  [/quote]
Agreed. We need to build a public transit system for the future. That’s why prioritizing bikes over transit on our limited right of ways makes zero sense. [/quote]

There will be plenty of room in the limited right of ways for bicycles AND buses, which are both space-efficient modes of transit, once we decide to stop making cars (driving and parking) the priority and everything else an afterthought. [/quote]

Bike lanes are a terrible use of resources. All that space and billions of dollars spent on something that only a miniscule fraction of the public uses. Better to focus on getting people back on the subway. [/quote]

That sounds great, let's focus on the subway.  Doesn't mean that we can't also give people who want to bike a scrap of the public land being used by drivers.  [/quote]

There's more than 100 miles of bike lanes in D.C. As you may have noticed, most of them are rarely used. [/quote]

I live on a side street with a view of the 15th street bike lane. I have noticed that it is used incredibly frequently. [/quote]

And I bet I could find you 100 out of 1,500 miles of roads in DC that are used even less frequently. Should we do away with them?

Also, there are only 24 miles of protected bike lanes in DC and these take up about an eighth of the roadway that run alongside.

It’s very hard to understate how little public space and public funding is allocated towards bike lanes. Those who throw around words like “billions” either are loaded up on dissociative or don’t hold the intellectual capacity of those they are seeking to convince in very high regard.[/quote]

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