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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I don't agree with the image, I do think that the people who are opposing the bike lanes are basically telling a sizable percentage of their neighbors that they don't care if there is safe access to neigborhood amenities.

Maybe the "opposition" should take a look in the mirror and understand what would prompt people to display such anger.[/quote]

I think the opposition wants to meet in the middle: increased traffic enforcement, HAWKs, dedicated bus lanes, better bike amenities at Metro stations.   The bike crowd wants it all. [/quote]

They only started playing the bus card in the past three weeks because the "save the parking" card wasn't working anymore.[/quote]

Or, in the real world, bus service on Connecticut will get significantly worse and people who rely more on buses than bicycles are worried about it. DDOT's representative just last week admitted that it's basically throwing the L2 into the trash heap by rebranding Connecticut from the CC circle to Van Ness as a "bicycle priority corridor" instead of a "bus priority corridor."

Did that ever cross your mind?[/quote]

He didn't admit to throwing the L2 into the trash heap.  I actually ride the L2 fairly frequently.  You probably do not. He did say that Conn Ave is not a Bus Priority Corridor.  That part is true.  But that also wasn't new news so stop acting like it was.  The Bus Priority Corridors are those corridors which do not have mass transit access.  Conn ave is literally on top of three red line stops.  It's not 16th street in a metro desert.  Also, DDOT isn't the one defunding bus service on Conn Ave, that's Metro and they've been doing it for years since they got rid of the L1.

The changes that are part of this plan will make the loading and unloading of buses more efficient than they are today.  Buses will stay in a traffic lane so they won't get stuck having to go in and out of the lane.  They will be horizontal to the curb instead of the jackknife they often are today. [/quote]

Connecticut from the MD line to Van Ness is literally not on top of any metro line. It's literally the only mass transit option for a whole lot of people whom you clearly think are disposable.
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What are you talking about?  I just said that the plan will make the unloading and loading better than today.  Most of the study area is not the area that you just cited.  Most of the study area is the area from Van Ness to Calvert.  Numerous parties (including myself) have asked WMTA to reconsider the L1 and to keep the L2 going.  The L1 was important to connect to Foggy bottom.  That's a fools errand at this point.  WMATA is focused on the rail issue presently.  Out of this project it is entirely possible that we can get DDOT to put in a circulator that would run from ChChCircle down to Van Ness and back.  Or maybe even all the way down to the green/yellow circulators that already exist.

Quit trying to preach at me from some moral high ground.  You don't even ride a bus.[/quote]

I ride the L2 every weekday. Can't wait to cross a lane of bike traffic to board it in a few years.[/quote]

*Raised pedestrian crossing

FTFY[/quote]

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