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[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]

For the people who don’t like riding bicycles, in Europe there are also electric bikes, and electric scooters.[/quote]
Why the Europea fetishization. There are electric bikes and scooters here in DC.

The problem is that if every person on a bike needs a 5 foot cushion around them to feel safe then it’s not and never will be an efficient transportation medium, no matter how fast each bike can go. Right now bike lanes are functionally a huge expenditure of public resources, including opportunity cost associated with public right of way, to provide a very small segment of the population recreation. Give the bike lanes to electric trolley buses and turn East Potomac Park into a permanent car free cycle track. You want to cycle, go there. Meanwhile, the city needs to function and take serious measures to reduce GHG emissions. Empty bike lanes are not serious. [/quote]

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