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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree. The bike lanes are well used, and the more there are, the safer novice cyclists feel to use them. It becomes a domino effect. Go look at pictures of Amsterdam from the early 1970's and compare them to today.

If you build it, they will come.[/quote]

Most people don't ride bicycles because, aside from being completely impractical for most, it is also *extremely* dangerous. [/quote]

If only there were safe places to ride, marked with paint, separated by concrete and without 2000 pound cars in them. Hmmm, let me think on that.[/quote]

Bicyclists in DC are a lot like the NRA. They are an extreme minority who uses our awful government, with its attentiveness to special interest groups, to foist their unpopular opinions on everyone else. So glad we can dedicate so many resources to the 40 people in DC who ride bikes every day. [/quote]

And then when bicyclists DO get their bike lanes, they’re clogging up Chain Bridge Rd, 123, and 14th St instead of using the bike lanes they scream about. [/quote]

The cyclists are taxpayer who have every right to use the road as you do. In fact, their bikes do not wear down the asphalt as much as your car does. They are not taking "your" parking spot and they are not spewing CO2 into the air.

You should be thanking their lycra a$$es.[/quote]

Cyclists don't actually have the same right to the roads. But, hey, good job with your white entitlement. (Do you think bicyclists have the same right to ride on the Beltway or I-95?)

At some point, it should come down to numbers. Hardly anyone in DC rides bikes. This sometimes seems not that different from setting up special protected lanes reserved only for people on roller skates. [/quote]

Why do you think DC bicyclists are generally white?  You seem like you’re unable to see the vast majority of people riding bikes in DC.  Try opening your eyes while driving (and put down your phone).[/quote]

Ha. Tell me you're white without telling me you're white. Bike lanes are the ultimate entitled white people issue. [/quote]

And dying on unsafe streets is what happens outside of white neighborhoods with bike lanes.  The data is available if you care.  Why shouldn’t everyone have safe bike infrastructure?[/quote]

Your white entitlement is showing.

[b]The issue here is that riding a bike on DC streets is extremely dangerous and it's not up to everyone else to ensure that this extremely dangerous thing you and a tiny number of your friends want to do doesn't get you killed. [/b]

If you dont want brain damage, don't become a boxer. And if you don't want to become road kill, stay off DC streets. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

Yeah, just buy a car and pay for parking!  Says the person criticizing others for white entitlement.  :roll: [/quote]

Just look at the numbers. This is how the vast majority of Washingtonians choose to travel. I'm sorry you're in such a tiny minority. [/quote]

60% isn’t a vast majority.  And it’s a mode that hogs space, ruins the environment, kills and maims people, and keeps up obesity rates.  So why wouldn’t you want to change that?[/quote]

Bikes are not a practical option for most people, which is why so few people ride them. [/quote]

1. That depends on the space given for them.  People pick up biking more as there’s safe space for it.
2. Electric bikes are getting more and more affordable.  Hope you like eating your words.[/quote]

You sound young, naive and rather self-centered.

It's like you don't have any appreciation at all for the range of other people's experiences and circumstances.

Do you understand that many people are too old to ride a bike? Or that they have newborns? Or that they're disabled? Or that they're young children? Or that they aren't strong enough to ride a bike? Or that some people can't afford to live anywhere near where they work, or where they otherwise need to go? Or that some people are so busy during the day that they don't have a spare minute, and they aren't going to fritter away their precious time on a bike when a car will get them where they need to be in a fraction of the time? Or that most people think the idea of riding a bike on DC streets is practically suicidal?

Also, nobody gives a f*ck about electric bikes. [/quote]

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