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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]fwiw I don’t believe bus lanes are condidered good fits for every road anyway. there needs to be a certain density of buses. if you’re trying to claim the absence of a bus lane in the Ct Ave plan somehow demonstrates a priority of biked over buses - that’s just absurd. There are many bus improvements in the plan. [/quote]

Cyclists think it's "absurd" to want an actual bus lane and just "many bus improvements" (but no lane). None of the cyclists who claim they really, truly support bus lanes took any issue with this either.

Yes, poor people take the bus or bike. Except we have the actual numbers a few pages back, and they actually overwhelmingly take the bus. Not sure why cyclists keep trying to speak for bus riders, and then attack bus riders when they speak for themselves.[/quote]

You seem perfectly comfortable speaking for cyclists, as you’re chastising them for speaking for bus riders.

As a cyclist who also often rides the bus and the subway and never drives to work, let me endorse wholeheartedly your plan to put bus lanes on Connecticut Avenue. Turn the whole road into a bus boulevard while you’re at it. Bikes are allowed in bus lanes in D.C., so I don’t understand why you think there’s any actual conflict between bus lanes and bike lanes. Please do put more bus lanes all over the city!

It is not cyclists who would stand in the way of putting bus lanes on Connecticut. It is drivers. It’s also not cyclists’ fault that the current plan doesn’t include bus lanes. The city designed it, not a bunch of random bike riders on an anonymous message board. [/quote]

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