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Transit surveys show biking is becoming less popular in DC. The government is spending more and more money on fewer and fewer people. [/quote]

Which, you know, is kind of weird, because year by year, I see more people biking in DC. Well, who am I going to trust, some anonymous rando on DCUM or my lying eyes?[/quote]

Neither! You could just look at the data. It's not that hard. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments puts out an annual transit report. TL;DR: Every form of transportation is becoming less popular, except driving, which is way up. It also says cyclists are exactly who you'd think: white, young, upper income and (because of that) they live close to wear they work. Drivers are disproportionately Black and Hispanic. [/quote]

This isn't in and of itself a reason to oppose bike lanes, though. And actually, people who live near to where they work are a good universe to target with policies that might get them not to drive, because then they're not adding to congestion on the roads (if they're in a protected bike lane, they are not interfering with car trips by people driving from farther away) and it may not be a significantly longer commute to bike rather than drive. Obviously, the main users of bike lanes are not going to be people coming from 15 or 20 miles away, it's going to be people who live and work relatively near where they're biking.[/quote]

I should add here that the cause-and-effect of who's using the bike lanes is not necessarily "people who bike have lots of money, and therefore, they live near where they work," it's probably that the fact that they live near where they work is why they bike in the first place. There are plenty of people who have more money than urban bike commuters who live farther from their jobs and drive instead of biking.[/quote]

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