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[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]

Maybe some people opposing bike lanes on CT Ave are concerned about thousands more cars speeding up the neighborhood side streets, streets even less equipped to serve as major arteries for MD commuters, as they are intentionally diverted from CT Ave to smaller residential streets on a daily basis. There won’t be fewer cars. They’ll just be speeding on different streets. Does that cross the minds of the bike lane advocates and neighborhood reps giving the finger, or laughing as colleagues give the finger, to a local business and their constituents who have a different view on the issue?[/quote]

Ah yes, more typical whataboutism with built in logical incongruencies.  What about all those thousands of cars going through side streets (something which DDOT is looking to install hardened infrastructure to discourage)?  Side streets which aren't able to handle that volume which will congest them.  But somehow they will be congested and speeding through at the same time.

There will be fewer cars.  *Some* people will shift mode of transpiration. All?  No, but a significant number isn't even needed - congestion is an exponential.  Removing 1 car from the road is worth more traffic easing than removing the next car and so forth and so on.  Removing 100 cars an hour and you're talking about the taking 25% of Reno road traffic out.  [/quote]

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