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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.[/quote]

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.  [/quote]

So we can just take the billion out of the bike budget and we're good then right? [/quote]

They need $600 million from the capital expenditures part of the budget.  $32 million is $32 million that doesn't have to be cut from something important like school repairs.  Take another $100 million from DDOT and we're starting to make progress.[/quote]

Even on this, you are wrong. That $32 million will not, in any world, be spent by DC during the remainder of the 2024-25 fiscal year (which is what the CR will affect). It is what is planned to be spent over a SIX YEAR capital improvement plan. A few million, at the absolute most, would have been spent on bike lane construction before the end of the fiscal year and quite probably none at all. This is complete red herring fished up by someone who is on the verge of attributing the COVID-19 pandemic to the construction of bike lanes.[/quote]

Nope.  You are wrong and obnoxious.  $600m has to come out of the Six Year CIP.  $500m has to come out of the operating budget.[/quote]

Do you have a source for that or is just made up like everything else you post on here?[/quote]

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