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Your white entitlement is showing.

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.

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]

No, the issue here is that "transportation" covers a lot of different modes, including bikes. And as such, when we have limited space for transportation, then there needs to be enough space for those different modes to use that space in a rational and safe manner. Dedicating all of that space to cars makes it harder for buses, pedestrians, scooters and bikes. Since buses carry more people than cars, they should be prioritized. Since neither pedestrians nor cyclists generate exhaust fumes or much wear and tear, they should be prioritized.

Sorry, the single occupancy vehicle will sill have some space, but not as much as it did in the 1950's. It just isn't rational or efficient. The Europeans and Asians learned this a few decades ago. It is about time the Americans caught on.[/quote]

The craziest thing about all of this is that hardly anyone in DC even rides bikes. How many people ride their bicycles ever day? 250? 500? Let's be extremely generous and call it 1,000. There are 350,000 cars registered in DC. There's surely tens of thousands more than aren't registered. Roads should be reserved for cars since that's how the overwhelmingly majority of people in Washington choose to travel. [/quote]

In 2018 about 5% of DC commuters were bike commuters.[/quote]

Your own eyes will tell you that's a big overestimate. [/quote]

Seems about accurate to me on average.[/quote]

Pfft. There is no street corner anywhere in DC where, if you stood there and counted the people going by via all forms of transportation, from foot to car, that five out of 100 would be on a bike. You'd be lucky if you saw two out of every 100 people on a bike. [/quote]
The problem is confirmation bias. All of these people ride the CCT to work, which does get crowded, so they just assume that there are “tens of thousands” of people just like them. But it’s just not true. [/quote]

In 2017 there were about 13,000 bike commuters in DC. DC regularly ranks quite high in bike commuting %ages for largish cities.

https://wtop.com/local/2017/05/many-people-really-bike-work-around-dc-surprising-stats/[/quote]

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