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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be real. People driving cars are hogging the roads. Everyone else gets scraps.  They like to try to pit us against each other but there's no question that the real problem is that we give too much space to individuals driving alone in oversized cars.[/quote]
At least there are using the public resource. What good is allowing cyclists to hoard a public good for the exclusive use of 95 people per day? Imagine if the road was closed to everyone but 95 cars per day? Or a total of 95 transit passenger per day? Crazy. [/quote]

Where's this 95/day coming from?  A ticker on Chrismas morning?  Most of the cycletracks in the city see that amount of traffic or more per hour.[/quote]
All of the data is publicly reported by DDOT. You can go and confirm the Columbia Rd counts yourself if you cared about actual knowledge and data. Instead you seem very intent on being ignorant, which is fine too.

In September 2022, the Columbia Rd bike lane recorded 7764 bikes for the entire month. That is 258 per day and if people are going both directions it would be a total of less than 130 cyclists. That same month, the 11th Street NW bike lane had a total of 6968 counts. The East Capitol Street bike lane had 7192 counts.

The most recent data for the 15th Street Cycletrack is July 2020 during the supposed COVID cycling boom and it recorded 422 counts per day or about 210 individuals going both directions.

Instead of living in reality, you have chosen to live in a fantasy world of your own creation. Facts are facts and the truth is that public resources are being hoarded for the benefit of a very small number of people.[/quote]

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