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DC already has more than 150 miles of bike lanes, many of them protected, and the number of cyclists in this city is going down. If cyclists were a stock, you'd sell. It's already topped out. [/quote]

False statement. You continue to cite "commuter" which, with work from home, is down everywhere. Cycling in general is way up, so measure that way rather than taking faulty "commuter" stats.
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Every transportation survey I’ve seen shows the number of cyclists is not only very small but is getting smaller…[/quote]

Where's the study that shows cycling in DC is "way up"?[/quote]
They don’t have any actual data. Which is why they talk about anecdotes about parking garages. [/quote]

Per the Census, bicycling in cities across the country is a lot less popular than it was.

"After increased investments in bicycle infrastructure, big experiments with urban bike sharing, an explosion in electric-bike sales and an overall pandemic bike-buying boom, the latest news on bike commuting in the US from the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey is not impressive. An estimated 731,272 Americans used bicycles as their chief means of transportation to work in 2022, up from 2021 but down almost 75,000 from before the pandemic and 175,000 from the peak year of 2014."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-09-27/biking-to-work-isn-t-gaining-any-ground-in-the-us?embedded-checkout=true[/quote]

Once again conflating "commuting" with you know, running errands or other bike trips which may not be "commuting" particularly given that commuting in general is down given post pandemic working parameters.[/quote]

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