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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.fox5dc.com/news/connecticut-avenue-bike-lane-plan-faces-opposition

They're eliminating two lanes on Connecticut freaking Avenue.  That is honestly one of the stupidest decisions ever made by the DC Government.[/quote]
Is it just me or is it totally insane to promote higher density while intentionally removing transportation infrastructure.

I could see removing a lane for a bus lane, but a bike lane is insane. CT Ave goes up a steep hill. I hear a lot about the Netherlands model. You know what the Netherlands doesn’t have? Hills. By all means turn the Old City, that’s mostly flat, into a bike utopia. This seems like an intentional plan to make upper CT an undesirable place to live which is consistent with other DC government behaviors, like the housing homeless in apartment buildings and hotels in the same area. I guess the plan is to intentionally impoverish the area so it can be redeveloped?[/quote]

The city is intentionally making traffic worse because they think that will prompt people to switch to bikes. That's obviously ridiculous. People will just leave or stop going to parts of the city where it's hard to get around. [/quote]

The idea that I am going to bike to the small businesses along CT Avenue is absurd.  In a funny way, adding bike lanes will benefit suburban malls (which I historically have tried to avoid) as one can drive and park and do multiple errands.  [/quote]

And the increased congestion will only make walking more difficult and push vehicle traffic onto the neighborhood side streets..  It blows my mind that anyone thinks this is a good idea.

The absolute worst part is that the bike lanes won't even be used.  Nobody is biking up or down that hill on a casual basis.  Meanwhile the 100 or so bicycle commuters from NW all use Beach Drive which is much more pleasant.[/quote]
Reno, a street currently without many signaled intersections, is going to get a lot more traffic and a lot less safe. Any arterial connecting CT and Wisconsin, e.g. Porter and Van Ness, are going to get a lot more traffic and a lot less safe.[/quote]

Also anything connecting Connecticut to Beach or 16th.

How many schools will be impacted?  I can name well over a dozen off the top of my head.

30,000 people use that road and they're eliminating 1/3rd of it while at the same time trying to increase population density on it.  It's madness.[/quote]

This is what you call overreaching. This will be a disaster and turn many, many people against bike lanes. [/quote]

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