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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm all in favor of public transportation and biking for those who are able; but you have to acknowledge that the vast majority of people cannot and will not use a bike as their primary mode of transportation for day to day activities. It just doesn't work.[/quote]

What exactly is stopping the “vast majority of people”? Could it perhaps be the perceived lack of safety due to the lack of protected bike lanes?[/quote]
How about more basic and practical factors like: comfort, convenience, efficiency, needs, etc. 20% of the population of DC is either over the age of 65 or under the age of 5. 12% of the population are disabled, including 6% of those from the ages of 5-64.

I know it might be hard for you to understand, but not everyone wants to bike at all. In fact, the vast majority of people in disinterested in cycling both as a matter of transportation and for recreation.

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You just gave numbers that represent ~1in5 people. That does leave the vast majority [/quote]
You are so full of yourself that you cannot even understand that disabled people have/need caregivers. But beyond that, the answer that the vast majority of people don’t want to bicycle is evident in the numbers. Only 5% of people bike [i]occasionally[/i] and this has not increased over a decade where DC has dedicated a lot of resources toward bicycles. If adding more protected bike lanes is not increasing the modal share for bicycling beyond less than one in twenty people, then the reality is that [i]the vast majority[/i] of people don’t just like riding bicycles, they really do not like riding bicycles. Or else they would be riding already.[/quote]
It is important to note that while the evidence shows that putting more resources into bicycle infrastructure does not increase the modal share for cycling, investing in transit can and does have direct impact on transit utilizaition. Frequent, fast and safe transit service is proven to get more people out of cars but this is impossible to do when cyclists are demanding hoarding public resources for their limited use.[/quote]

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