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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People barely use the bike lanes we already have. The number of cyclists is pathetically small, especially given how relentlessly the city promotes it.[/quote]

This is shaping up to be the hottest year in recorded history. Maybe it’s time we start making it easier for people to commute without making things even worse. If you care at all about the planet we will leave future generations, maybe you should also get behind that.[/quote]

Riding bikes makes *zero* difference to global warming. It’s purely symbolic. [/quote]

Cars make a big difference in global warming. You're right that any one individual's choice to bike vs. drive is meaningless, but that doesn't mean making it easier for people not to drive isn't helpful for slowing climate change.[/quote]
Not really. Transportation emissions from private vehicles are a small part of the pie. You would get more bang for your buck in CO2 emissions by reducing air travel. For example, one seat on a round trip flight from DC to Tokyo produces about the same GHG emissions as a family car in the US. If you’re biking to work but flying all over the world then you are not really helping anything. [/quote]

Heck, planting trees in the bike lanes would do more for global warming.  [/quote]

We’ll just plant trees in the car lane. [/quote]

That would also be more beneficial to the environment then bike lanes.  Unfortunately that would destroy the entire economy and cause people to starve.  There's no associated systemic downsides with planting trees in the bike lanes.[/quote]

there’s no downside to you taking the metro from Bethesda to downtown. [/quote]

Except for the fact that I live in DC, like most of the people complaining about the waste of resources that are bike lanes.

Considering their usage numbers, are bike lanes even carbon neutral?[/quote]

Fortunately, there are plenty of Metro stations in DC! And buses too. You could even use the bike lanes.[/quote]

I take the metro when I have all day and don't need to transport anything.  As for buses, unfortunately they've been cut back.  If only there was a pot of money being wasted on benefiting a handful of people that could be used to support mass transit.  Bikes, maybe on a day like today.  But otherwise, it's too hot, too cold, raining, etc.  If only we lived in San Diego and didn't have kids.  As it stands, I'm spending more and more of my disposable income in Maryland and Virginia because they're easier to get to but don't worry.  I'm sure those bike lanes will eventually create the urban utopia of your pre-industrial revolution english village dream.

Considering their usage numbers, are the bike lanes in DC even carbon neutral?[/quote]

I don't think city living is for you. Maybe Loudoun County? Somewhere where most of the land is used for roads or parking lots.[/quote]

No thank you.  I was here before you and I will be here after you leave.  I love mass transit and walking.  Wish we had more of it and stopped wasting our money on unused vanity projects for twitter obsessed late stage boomers and virtue signaling millennials.[/quote]

If you love mass transit and walking, then use mass transit and walking. Bike lanes are not the enemy of mass transit and walking. Cars are.[/quote]

They eliminated Circulator routes in order to pay for bike lanes. [/quote]

You could repeat that assertion a million more times, and it still wouldn't be true.[/quote]

I want our environmental funding to improve the environment and I want our transportation funding to improve transportation.  Bike lanes do neither.  They are an amenity and should be funded as such.  They are carbon and fiscal negatives.[/quote]

Yes, yes, you hate bike lanes, we get the point. I don't know what bike lanes ever did to you, but there's no point in arguing with such a deeply ingrained prejudice.[/quote]

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