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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's what's so wrong about these efforts.  Upper Connecticut will never be cool or hip.  That's because it is the part of town that people move to when they start families and stop being cool or hip.  It's a land of mom jeans and power walks.  Conversations about schools and youth sports.  Kid friendly restaurants and gardening.  It's where Gen Z and Zoomers live at home with their parents.  It's where Gen X moved when they had kids, just like the Boomers before them, and Millennials now.

To put it simply, there are too many kids and fuddy duddies to ever attract the trendy and childless.  [/quote]

It's the first I've ever heard that walking and riding a bike are things only done by the trendy and childless. I've been walking since I was 1, and riding a bike since I was 4, so this comes as quite a surprise.[/quote]

That's why I want our neighborhood streets to be safe so that my kids can ride bikes there as they do now.  More cars and trucks diverted from gridlocked Connecticut Avenue onto these streets will make them less safe.[/quote]

Agreed! Neighborhood streets should be safe. All streets should be safe! Including Connecticut Avenue, which is also a neighborhood street and should also be safe.[/quote]

How exactly will bike lanes make Connecticut Avenue safe, particularly when they squeeze capacity down?  And Connecticut Avenue and the other major arterials are where the through traffic is supposed to go, because Upper Northwest Washington (Ward 3) lacks any of the radial freeways like in SE, SW, MoCo and Arlington.[/quote]

I don't know how were on 100s of combined pages of threads on the CT bike lane and people could still ask this question in good faith. I'll just assume its in bad faith.[/quote]

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