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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tyranny of the Minority (2020-2023) RIP.

You had a god run. The adults are  finally back in charge in 2024.  Drive, bus, walk, or Metro.   Those are your choices.  [/quote]

Anonymous rando on DCUM on a Friday night, deciding which modes of transportation people should get to use.[/quote]

Love these entitled white guys who are like, I don’t want to walk or ride the subway or take the bus or drive. You have to spend billions of dollars building me my own separate transportation system because I just really like riding my bicycle. Because a city with one quarter of its kids living in poverty doesn’t have anything better to spend its money on.[/quote]

Hey jerk, paint and a little concrete isn't billions of dollars.  All that asphalt and signaling is.  The bike infrastructure costs next to freaking nothing compared to the subsidized car infrastructure. [/quote]

Not billions of course.  But if some touch up paint on the mayor’s “BLM plaza” will cost $300K, what do you think bike lanes with the barriers and infrastructure changes nearly the length of Connecticut will cost?  That would certainly pay for some needed cops and reading teachers [/quote]

Look at the budget. The city routinely spends a quarter billion dollars each year on bike infrastructure. They’ve been spending at this rate for 15 years. [/quote]

I don't see how that's possible when Bowser's budget proposal last year proposed spending $6 million per year on 10 miles per year of protected bike lanes, over the course of six years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/01/dc-transportation-budget/

Either the city hasn't actually spent $250 million per year on bike infrastructure, or there are actually many, many more miles of protected bike lanes than any of us is aware of.
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The city's budget is a public document. You can just look it up. Here's a *small* sampling of what you'd find:

$36 million for bike lanes
$15 million for Capital Bikeshare
$800,000 for electric bike rebates
$56.4 million for Vision Zero
$39.1 million for bike and pedestrian safety
$18.5 million for signs
$32 million for intersections for intersections with safety concerns
$52 million Long Bridge bicycle connection[/quote]

The big money comes when they build trails and bridges and redesign roads. Bowser wants $185 million just to build bike trails. [/quote]

It would be cheaper for the taxpayer if the city paid every cyclist in the city $1 million to ride the subway[/quote]

Similarly, think how much money on road maintenance and public safety would be saved by taxpayers if the only motor vehicles allowed on city streets were commercial vehicles, transit vehicles, and emergency vehicles![/quote]

It would be fantastic! I mean, we'd all lose our jobs because 99 percent of the businesses would die, and the government would have no money because no one would have any income to tax, and it would be a pain in the ass to get around, but other than that, it would be great. [/quote]

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