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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]

Practice your reading comprehension.  The person you are quoting above isn't saying that wanting a bus lane is absurd, they are saying that YOUR CLAIM of the fact there is not a bus lane means that DDOT did bike lanes in lieu of a bus lane is absurd.  And indeed, DDOT said as much multiple times where they came out and said "Conn Ave isn't a bus priority area" because it literally sits on top of a 3 metro stations in the study area.

Now, as others have said in this thread, that to me isn't *super* convincing because (a) ChCh circle has a bus depot and (b) ChCh circle to Van Ness has nothing but buses and no metro (unless you consider a 20 minute walk to either Tenley or Friendship Heights, but I don't).  So, this cyclist, would totally prefer for DDOT to do what they just did with PA Ave and lay down both a bus and cycling thing in some way on Conn Ave.  But doing so would cost you more parking, so i think you're really the one who would balk at that.[/quote]

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