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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is putting in bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, one in each direction.  While this may seem like an attractive idea, the rush hour carrying capacity of Conn. Ave. will be cut from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes.  DC just assumes that the traffic will just go away, or maybe MD commuters will all switch to those little Lime scooters.  More likely, Connecticut will be gridlocked several hours a day, with more traffic diverting onto Reno Rd, Porter St., etc. trying to find a way to or from downtown.  Nice.[/quote]

Poor Upper NW and MD drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?[/quote]

[b]We need to plan for where the traffic will be diverted, I am thinking os much of the drivers, but of the kids who walk along Reno/34th Street to Much, Hearst, Eaton and several other schools.  I'm thinking of people who cross or ride their bikes on Albemarle or Porter, and the folks who live on narrow streets who will find that Waze is diverting commuters all the time from the gridlocked Connecticut arterial.  What about their safety?  Slogans and wishful thinking are no substitute for real traffic planning[/b].[/quote]

I'm old enough to remember the Safe Streets program, when the city said some neighborhood streets should be all-but-closed to car traffic because it said traffic belongs on major roads designed to handle lots of cars. (The public hated the Safe Streets program and it was mercifully ended).

Now the city wants to do the opposite. Cut the capacity of major roads to handle traffic, in order to accommodate, a handful of cyclists, which of course will force all those cars onto previously quiet neighborhood streets that were never intended to handle so much traffic.

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