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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.[/quote]

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.  [/quote]

So we can just take the billion out of the bike budget and we're good then right? [/quote]

They need $600 million from the capital expenditures part of the budget.  $32 million is $32 million that doesn't have to be cut from something important like school repairs.  Take another $100 million from DDOT and we're starting to make progress.[/quote]

I often ride my bike to work (after walking my kids to our local DCPS school) and am totally fine with completely axing any bike-related money from the budget in response to this situation. But it's a little delusional to think that the city can find all the savings necessary to deal with a sudden fiscal emergency just in some magic pot of bicycle funding. There's one poster on here who seems to think we spend billions every year putting in bike lanes, but if that were the case, every street in the city would have protected aerial bike highways with, like, climate control already.[/quote]

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