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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The assumption in this post is flawed:  that people are anti-bike and anti-bus.  [b]First, few people are "anti-bike."[/b]  They just don't think putting two bike lanes down Connecticut Avenue is the best use of resources given the other competing needs in a finite space.  That leads to the second point.  If Connecticut is to be redesigned, it would be a far better tradeoff to have dedicated bus lanes than bike lanes.  Frequent, fast bus service is a more efficient user of a scarce resource -- lane capacity -- than bike lanes.  It is the only option that has the potential to meaningfully reduce private car trips.  And bus lanes would enhance a transit option that is inclusive:  for senior citizens, the less-mobile, people on fixed incomes who don't have a car, etc.[/quote]

But they all post repeatedly on DCUM.

In real life, there are very few anti-transit/pro-bike or pro-transit/anti-bike people. Not least because transit and bikes work together. Most people either support transportation policies that make it easier for people to get places without cars (walking, biking, scooters, buses, etc.) or oppose all efforts to do so.

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Absolutely. The buses have bike carriers are a Godsend. Being able to take a bike on Metro is awesome as well.[/quote]

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