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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]

Basically you're saying we should spend billions of dollars building up an entirely separate transportation system for white cyclists who are rich enough to live in the most desirable parts of the city, and if that makes car traffic a whole lot worse for predominantly black and brown drivers who don't live within such easy distance of their jobs and other places they need to go, then I guess you'd just say that's too bad. Seems kind of racist, doesn't it?[/quote]

It’s not a coincidence that the biggest advocates of bike lanes on the city council represent lily white neighborhoods and the biggest critics of bike lanes come from wards 7 and 8[/quote]

Vince Grey supports bike lanes. The majority of Ward 8 residents want more bike infrastructure despite their councilmember. [/quote]

This debate shouldn’t be about pro bike lanes or anti bike lanes.  People may support bike lanes in many places but location and context matters.  Constraining Northwest Washington’s major arterial road and diverting traffic into lesser capacity streets is simply not smart transportation planning.[/quote]

The police have said the bike lanes will lead to MORE accidents.  Which is completely obvious to just about everyone except the bike bros. [/quote]

100 percent. I worry about hitting a cyclist a lot because they're so unpredictable. They seem to ignore pretty much all traffic laws so you never know what they're going to do and they don't seem to care if no one can see them at night. [/quote]

I've found that I can see bicyclists a lot better at night, while I'm driving, when I (1) slow down (2) look out for bicyclists. Give it a try! It's effective for seeing pedestrians, too.[/quote]

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