Reply to K Street Transitway

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "K Street Transitway"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Put more simply, tens of thousands of people use cars to commute to work using K street (and the parallel streets). People who have kids to drop off, people who don’t have the time or inclination or physical wellness to bike to work.

Bike lanes on k street solve a big problem for a small number of commuters while creating headaches for a far greater number of people.

The large large majority of car commuters have held their nose and accepted many of the changes so far, as has the business community, in the name of safer streets and enviro, but at the end of the day taking lanes out means longer times to get the same number of people to their offices downtown by car, which makes downtown dc less attractive to nova and other office centers. And with no major transit expansions until 2040 or so, taking lanes out of at-capacity roads (looking at you, Connecticut Avenue!) simply punishes (Maryland) commuters. Some will switch to metro, others will cut thru side streets, and others will go to the office less, due to the hassle. And there goes the downtown economy.

Yes housing is coming downtown and the office market will never be what it was. But that is a decades long project. Conversions are expensive. And ps when I move downtown it won’t be because of the bike lanes. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics