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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The premise of a lot of cycling people is that there is pent up demand of people who want to bicycle but who don’t because they feel unsafe.

What if people just don’t like riding bicycles? It’s seems like an impossible thing for these pro-bike people to fathom.

One of the most supposedly most successful bike paths in the country is the CCT.  Even on its best days of the year it’s a fraction of one lane of average daily traffic volume on any basic arterial road. The other successful bike in the city, the 15th Street cycletrack, on peak days does not even replace 25% of the average daily traffic volume of the one lane that it replaced. Meanwhile, cyclist complain that they feel unsafe because the two way traffic is too narrow and they are lobbying to widen it.

The fact is, even successful bicycle infrastructure is extremely inefficient and wasteful use of public resources in doing the thing that transportation infrastructure is supposed to do, move people around quickly.

Sooner or later smart cities will come to this conclusion too. [/quote]

Argument made about cycling but even if you remove every bike lane in the city, you won’t get much more car space (and will get the hardcore cyclists taking up an entire car lane and slowing things down even more).  So what is your solution?  Fund/fix metro?  Kick out all the people to widen roads?  No parking?  Tons of parking under the mall?[/quote]
The solution is more transit genius. [/quote]

Really?? L St NW used to have 4 lanes for traffic during morning rush hour.  Now it has one lane, once you eliminate the unused bike lane, the illegally parked vehicles in the right curb lane, and the left lane (not including the unused bike lane) that is forced to turn left at various intersections.  The city has jerrymandered the downtown streets in such a way that we could never possibly return to normal.   There is no place for the traffic that the streets used to be able to handle.  And no, Metro is no substitute.  Metro sucks, it is unsafe and unclean, and does not go where the people live.  I took Metro to work 30 years ago. I will never do so again.[/quote]

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