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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Road diet."

If the public actually wanted this, they wouldn't have to come up with an Orwellian euphemism to describe it.

"Road diets" in DC mean lots and lots of bike lanes than no one uses and worse congestion for modes of transportation that people actually use. [/quote]

I can understand that it may be hard to see people in the bike lanes from your basement in Chevy Chase. But I travel all over DC daily and see a lot of cyclists using them.[/quote]

The question is about utilization, not whether people use them at all. The utilization is so low that it doesn’t make sense to add bike lanes at the expense of car lanes. [/quote]

I'm not sure you understand how traffic works. Cities can build as many roads as you want and make them as wide as you want and the end result will always be congestion. Almost any large metropolis in the world - outside of a few in Asia and Europe that strongly discourage driving - will provide evidence of this. The only durable way to reduce congestion is to provide viable alternatives to driving your vehicle everywhere. Providing a safe means for people to use their bikes for short trips around town is one way to do this. Judging the success of bike lanes on their usage immediately after construction is silly. It inevitably takes some time to build out the network for bike trips to become a viable alternative and to build awareness of the alternative. It took me many years of living in the DC area before I rode my first bike, but my life became much easier after I took it up.[/quote]

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