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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s a great write up of the bike use records:

https://ggwash.org/view/97337/bikeshare-beat-for-the-fifth-straight-month-cabi-breaks-ridership-record

Awesome stuff. Biking is becoming more and more popular in DC![/quote]

That's propaganda from special-interest/lobbyist group GGW. They just want to build more buildings and make bank. [/quote]

The GGW ANC commissioner gave the game away in Marc Fisher’s column:  developers want bike lanes because they’re seen as a marketing plus to attract younger renters to dense upscale development projects.[/quote]

In other words, people want bike lanes.[/quote]

ha good catch. imagine thinking that “young people want this amenity” is some kind of argument against bike lanes. or that dense development is something inherently bad. guys like Fisher have no actual interest in thinking about what’s good for DC overall. If they were in charge 50 years ago we wouldn’t even have a Metro system. [/quote]

We would have a trolley system that would service the chosen neighborhoods.[/quote]

we wouldn’t even have that. the mark fishers of the world would sputter their absolute outrage at the installation of trolley tracks on their beautiful streets. these guys probably would have complained about building the public sewers in the in 1800s, arguing that their right to discharge effluent directly into the gutter was inalienable and that these newfangled “underground pipe bros” were ruining DC. [/quote]

I take it that you are new to reading the Washington Post.  Marc Fisher is not some random new guy.[/quote]

let me know about all the reporting he has done on transit and public works. as well as W7 and W8. [/quote]

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