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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, just pave over everything.  Then we'll be in paradise.[/quote]

What a very odd comment.  It's almost like you're intentionally completely ignoring the plan that's being discussed.  [/quote]

Kind of like the 300 white bicyclists and billions of dollars on bike lanes guy?   Yeah, why would I engage at this point?[/quote]

Because 10,000 extra vehicles on residential side streets packed with schools, seniors and children, the destruction of small businesses, and the impending traffic nightmare impact you as well, assuming you're actually local that is.

Don't cut off your nose to spite someone because they make fun of lyrca.[/quote]

Every time I see one of the lycra sadsacks,  I hold my hand out the car window with by thumb and finger about 3 inches apart and ask "is it only this big?"[/quote]

How often do you get to do this, though? DC cyclists are not lycra dudes, they're parents on cargo bikes, and millennials on bikeshare bikes. Lycra cyclists don't give a rip about protected bike lanes - they want to take a full lane of car traffic, or shove leisure cyclists off the trails, while going very fast with their heads down. [/quote]
LOL no. You have a creative imagination. We all see the MAMILs (Middle Aged Men In Lycra) and unfortunately have had to deal with them regularly. The “parents on cargo bikes” is one of those funny things that you think is common because you notice them, but you only notice them because they are so rare. The MAMILs on the other hand are the majority of the small number of cyclists and as a result apparently unremarkable to you. [/quote]

I took time today on my own commute to examine who was biking. I mostly saw people going to work not wearing lycra. I saw a good proportion of them riding cargo bikes, over half of those cargo bikes sans kids in the back. I barely saw any lycra dudes. Just as I thought, they keep that for the weekend, and the roads, not the protected bike lanes during commuter hours.

I don't think you're lying, though. I think you're just recycling old rage and old visions and you don't realize how quickly people's commuting behavior change and have changed.
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