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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the IDEA of bike lanes.  But I have to say that when I was trying to work and raise three kids, at three different schools, with the associated activities, playdates and doctor's appointments, I could barely manage WITH a car.  No chance it would have worked on a bike.[/quote]

If only there was a safe way for some of your kids to get to some of their destination via mode of transportation that they controlled...[/quote]

Right on.  I and a bunch of other kids I went to school with used to ride our bikes to and from school and activities from middle school up through most of high school. Now.. I am a bit older, so back when this was happening pick up trucks were like 2/3rds the size they are today at worst and SUV's didn't really exist.

The whole bigger is better and safer (maybe for the occupants of that vehicle?) craze that has permeated our country has really taken away freedom from both parents and kids and they didn't even consider it.

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Kids already bike to all the schools near Connecticut.  Doing it on Connecticut is not needed and something no parent would ever allow their elementary school student to do.[/quote]

More would do it if it were safer.[/quote]

Where is home/school that would make a major car commuter road your choice for a kid biking to school? Every other option for the local schools is more direct and better. [/quote]

What if DC transformed Connecticut Avenue from "a major car commuter road" to a street that everyone can use?[/quote]

Then they would have one less major car commuter road and one more space that’s popular while it’s a novelty but then gets used less as the novelty wears off. The end result is that fewer people would benefit from Connecticut Avenue than benefit from it today. [/quote]

The novelty of having a street that works for everyone, instead of just people who want to get from Maryland to downtown DC by car. I don't think that novelty would wear off.[/quote]

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