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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re telling me the hordes of bikers downtown are spending enough scratch? C’mon man![/quote]
I’ve heard it frequently said that bike lanes increase business. I guess that’s wrong. [/quote]

Right. One anonymous post on DCUM carries much more weight than dozens of academic studies.[/quote]
Are any of those academic studies about downtown DC? Here in DC they built a lot of bike lanes during COVID and now that we’re out of COVID businesses keep failing. So whatever economic boost they theoretically are supposed to provide it’s clearly not working in downtown DC. [/quote]

I’ll have “how can one so egregiously confuse correlation with causation?” for 500, Alex.[/quote]
I’m no scientist but any such study would be extremely place specific. Extrapolating to a different location and context depends on a lot of assumptions that would invalidate any conclusions.

So it’s entirely possible that bike lanes say in Bethesda at the terminus of the CCT could facilitate more business while in downtown DC they could harm business. Assuming one size fits all is the silliest assumption of all.

But serious question, how many more bike lanes does downtown DC need to stimulate the economy?[/quote]

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