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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I use the bike lanes every day to buy groceries, take my kids to the Metro, take my oldest to soccer practice, visit my parents, commute to work.

Oh wait. Of course I don’t. I use the bus and car for those. [/b]

Some bike lanes work great. Others are pure city-planner GGW (does that exist anymore?) hokum that actually do damage by increasing commuting times and further disadvantaging centralized jobs and retail.

Whatever Duffy is up to is likely politicized nonsense, but the bike lane lobby has got to chill. Losing Connecticut Avenue was a sign. [/quote]

Bike lanes reduce walking, not driving. Not sure why we want to reduce walking. [/quote]

Huh? Biking if frequently faster than driving, especially in town. It takes me 25 mins by bike from Bethesda to Water St in Georgetown. Can’t beat that by car in the morning.[/quote]

Someone's breaking the law.  Because that is only possible if you speed and/or run the lights.[/quote]

They are likely using the Capital Crescent Trail. [/quote]

This is the secret sauce. You don't need lights if cars aren't involved. This quickly makes bikes faster when they have their own infrastructure.

Cars are their own worst enemy, and because of traffic they end up as slow as bikes in urban areas. During rush hour they average 10-12 MPH, which is CaBi speed.

So you might as well save a large fortune and just build cities around the bike instead. [/quote]

I haven’t seen drivers complaining about dedicated bike trails, just bike lanes that take away driving/parking lanes for cars. [b]Separate bike trails are a win-win.[/b][b] [/quote]

You would think so, but unfortunately that’s not borne out by experience.

Folks in the Palisades have been asking the city for 50 or so years to convert the old Palisades Trolley Trail into a mixed use path.

In 2019, the city finally got around to commissioning a concept. The project, though, was stopped dead in its tracks though by an avowed velophobe in the GU administration - who also cited aesthetics as the reason it shouldn’t happen - and a group of NIMBYs who own property abutting the trail and didn’t want to have share public land that they use as their own private yards.

Not surprisingly, Kershbaum hasn’t shown the slightest bit of interest in it despite the fact that it would allow students attending and staff working at the half dozen schools and universities in the area to safely commute without further clogging MacArthur Blvd..

If only someone in favor of the project had a direct line to Kershbaum like Paul Donahue.[/quote]

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