Anonymous wrote:I love and use the DC bike lanes ... and see plenty of other folks using them, esp during rush hour. I take 11th street up to spring, and then 14th street up past Walter Reed ... it's great

Anonymous wrote:If you're a white guy in his 20s or 30s, you probably like bike lanes.

Everyone else thinks: Ugh, terrible traffic.

White guys in their 20s and 30s think terrible traffic will convince people to get out of cars and join them on bikes.

But everyone else just thinks: I'll go somewhere else, where it doesnt suck to get to.

The losers are businesses downtown because it means there will have a lot fewer customers.

It's good though for businesses elsewhere in the city and the suburbs because they will pick up new customers who are trying to avoid going downtown.

Anonymous wrote:If you're a white guy in his 20s or 30s, you probably like bike lanes.

Everyone else thinks: Ugh, terrible traffic.

White guys in their 20s and 30s think terrible traffic will convince people to get out of cars and join them on bikes.

But everyone else just thinks: I'll go somewhere else, where it doesnt suck to get to.

The losers are businesses downtown because it means there will have a lot fewer customers.

It's good though for businesses elsewhere in the city and the suburbs because they will pick up new customers who are trying to avoid going downtown.

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Anonymous wrote:

Weird though how hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes. Five years from now, they'll all be torn out because people will think it's dumb to set aside so much space for the four guys in DC who are really into bikes.

You must be a very unhappy person. Only very unhappy people would have a hobby of repeatedly starting anonymous anti-bike-lane posts on an anonymous internet message board. I'm sorry.

I also hope that you don't drive, because a driver who can't see people when they're on bicycles doesn't belong on the road.

Anonymous wrote:

Weird though how hardly anyone even uses the bike lanes. Five years from now, they'll all be torn out because people will think it's dumb to set aside so much space for the four guys in DC who are really into bikes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're a white guy in his 20s or 30s, you probably like bike lanes.

Everyone else thinks: Ugh, terrible traffic.

White guys in their 20s and 30s think terrible traffic will convince people to get out of cars and join them on bikes.

But everyone else just thinks: I'll go somewhere else, where it doesnt suck to get to.

The losers are businesses downtown because it means there will have a lot fewer customers.

It's good though for businesses elsewhere in the city and the suburbs because they will pick up new customers who are trying to avoid going downtown.

Actually almost everyone likes bike lanes. The biggest exception is anonymous commenters on the Internet. Fact.

Anonymous wrote:If you're a white guy in his 20s or 30s, you probably like bike lanes.

Everyone else thinks: Ugh, terrible traffic.

White guys in their 20s and 30s think terrible traffic will convince people to get out of cars and join them on bikes.

But everyone else just thinks: I'll go somewhere else, where it doesnt suck to get to.

The losers are businesses downtown because it means there will have a lot fewer customers.

It's good though for businesses elsewhere in the city and the suburbs because they will pick up new customers who are trying to avoid going downtown.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are dumb. Hardly anyone even uses them. They're just going to make traffic and parking even worse, which will discourage people from going downtown. They'll just go elsewhere where it's not hard to get around.

I still don’t understand why you’d come into DC anyway. Isn’t there an Olive Garden where you live?

I've lived in DC longer than you've been alive.

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Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are dumb. Hardly anyone even uses them. They're just going to make traffic and parking even worse, which will discourage people from going downtown. They'll just go elsewhere where it's not hard to get around.

I still don’t understand why you’d come into DC anyway. Isn’t there an Olive Garden where you live?

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes are dumb. Hardly anyone even uses them. They're just going to make traffic and parking even worse, which will discourage people from going downtown. They'll just go elsewhere where it's not hard to get around.

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Anonymous wrote:Alas, people have to get to work again, and not everyone can ride a bike or walk to work.

Maybe we should allow continued teleworking for those whose jobs are suitable - I'm certainly not excited to drive into DC to do the exact same work I'm doing at home now. Win-wim!