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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you imagine what it would be like if cycling was actually popular in DC?

PARIS — On a recent afternoon, the Rue de Rivoli looked like this: Cyclists blowing through red lights in two directions. Delivery bike riders fixating on their cellphones. Electric scooters careening across lanes. Jaywalkers and nervous pedestrians scrambling as if in a video game.

Sarah Famery, a 20-year resident of the Marais neighborhood, braced for the tumult. She looked left, then right, then left and right again before venturing into a crosswalk, only to break into a rant-laden sprint as two cyclists came within inches of grazing her.

“It’s chaos!” exclaimed Ms. Famery, shaking a fist at the swarm of bikes that have displaced cars on the Rue de Rivoli ever since it was remade into a multilane highway for cyclists last year. “Politicians want to make Paris a cycling city, but no one is following any rules,” she said. “It’s becoming risky just to cross the street!”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/world/europe/paris-bicyles-france.html#:~:text=In%20Paris%2C%20parts%20of%20the,bike%20lanes%20weave%20through%20traffic.[/quote]

What a nightmare[/quote]

A nightmare that is in fact a dream relative to what carbrains and their legislative enablers have done to this planet.[/quote]

oh it's this guy. you have a real obsessive, stalker-y vibe going here. do you feel compelled to respond to literally every single post on this site that suggests maybe cyclists aren't angels? id suggest maybe not being such a creep and go talk a walk or something. [/quote]

All cyclists are not angels. But they are also not all jerks. It’s sad that this needs to be said but there is at least one person on here who consistently feels the need to dehumanize every person who rides a bike in DC. But whether angels, jerks or just normal people, those riding bikes are contributing to climate change while doing so. The same cannot be said only those who drive everywhere.[/quote]

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