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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny how cyclists go on and on about how dangerous the roads are, and how we have to spend billions of dollars to protect cyclists, but when you look at the stats, you see that on average there's *one* cyclist death in DC per year.

And then when you point out that, so far this year, there are 259 murders and 5,125 violent crimes, and both of those are up by one third from last year, they say "oh well, that's city living for you. Crime is rare anyway."

I guess the difference is the cyclist killed is white and the people murdered mostly are black. [/quote]

Why do people constantly make this weird comparison? Yes, crime is bad and mostly affects black people. I, a white person who rides a bike to get to work and do errands, don't want people to be victims of crime, nor do I want them to be hit by a car. (Whether they're hit by a car and killed or hit by a car without being killed.) I don't understand what one policy has to do with the other except that people seem to think that the existence of crime means the city can't possibly spend any money on anything else (a theory that apparently only actually comes into play when the "anything else" is bike lanes).[/quote]

Why don't you use Rock Creek Park where a bike path that runs parallel to CT Ave NW is already in place?[/quote]

There is a multi-hundred page thread about this already. Rock Creek is great, but if one is going neighborhood to neighborhood, going into Rock Creek and then back out is way out of the way, particularly if you live west of CT Ave. The shops and stores we want to support are on CT Ave, not in Rock Creek. Don't assume this is all about commuting downtown, though a CT Ave bike lane helps with that, but it is also about people going to school, to shop etc.[/quote]

The businesses need customer parking.  They don’t want bike lanes that would displace parking.  [/quote]

Except the parking is mostly used by people who work in those stores, not customers as evidenced by the same cars being parked there all day, every day.[/quote]

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