Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”
The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.
Can we get the sources for those "billions of dollars" and "150 miles" claims, again?
Our government! AKA the horse's mouth.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”
The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”
The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.
Can we get the sources for those "billions of dollars" and "150 miles" claims, again?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”
The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”
The city has spent billions of dollars over the years on a bike infrastructure that is used by a tiny (and shrinking) number of people. The cost per user is out of this universe. Cyclists are also the only group that is effectively exempt from all traffic laws. You can put an infant in the basket on the front of your bike, go tootling down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour as fast as you can pedal, and you will never be punished. But I get it. You have such a deep seated sense of entitlement that all you can see is that our 150 miles of bike lanes still aren't air conditioned.
Anonymous wrote:It takes a special kind of Cluster B to believe that because you personally cannot bike, that bike lanes constitute “treating bike commuters like gods.”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Any dehumanization of cyclists followed demonization of car users and disregard for pedestrians. "Car-free diets," letting motorized bikes and scooters on trails, treating bike commuters as gods. It's very, very ableist.
I can walk. I cannot ride a bike. Even for fun. Even with a motor. It's balance and knees. Being demonized for driving to Sibley (what, you want me to Uber it's still a car) because 7 miles is too far to walk and 2 hours connecting buses is crazy isn't ever going to get me on a bike.
You are responding to arguments that have never been made, arguing with straw-men that do not exist, and inventing scenarios that have no basis in reality.
No one cares how you get to Sibley.
LOL at saying that right after you called PP a ghoul and slandered them.
Anonymous wrote:These bike lanes are working as intended—to punish drivers because cars are bad. The fact that nobody uses them is viewed as a positive, I suspect, because it makes the point clear.
Anonymous wrote:These bike lanes are working as intended—to punish drivers because cars are bad. The fact that nobody uses them is viewed as a positive, I suspect, because it makes the point clear.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Any dehumanization of cyclists followed demonization of car users and disregard for pedestrians. "Car-free diets," letting motorized bikes and scooters on trails, treating bike commuters as gods. It's very, very ableist.
I can walk. I cannot ride a bike. Even for fun. Even with a motor. It's balance and knees. Being demonized for driving to Sibley (what, you want me to Uber it's still a car) because 7 miles is too far to walk and 2 hours connecting buses is crazy isn't ever going to get me on a bike.
You are responding to arguments that have never been made, arguing with straw-men that do not exist, and inventing scenarios that have no basis in reality.
No one cares how you get to Sibley.
Anonymous wrote:Any dehumanization of cyclists followed demonization of car users and disregard for pedestrians. "Car-free diets," letting motorized bikes and scooters on trails, treating bike commuters as gods. It's very, very ableist.
I can walk. I cannot ride a bike. Even for fun. Even with a motor. It's balance and knees. Being demonized for driving to Sibley (what, you want me to Uber it's still a car) because 7 miles is too far to walk and 2 hours connecting buses is crazy isn't ever going to get me on a bike.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:it seems to have been very poorly thought out, between the lack of usage, the confiscation of residents' parking spots, and the poor flows regardless that lead to safety issues
“Confiscation of residents’ parking spots?”
Entitled much?
I’m sorry to have to break the news, but those residents do not own the road space adjacent to their abodes and they have no established right to a parking space.
Moreover, every house on those blocks has a driveway and there is ample space on the other side of the street for parking.
Invoking all manner of hyperbole to drawn attention to your own sense of victimization works a lot better if you develop some real problems first.
Do you really think it's safe for people parking across the street to have sprint across a very busy street with no crosswalk. Seriously?
Then ask DDOT to add a crosswalk. Without fail, opponents of these and other bike lanes love to complain but are completely incapable of coming up with a single constructive suggestion.
Will the cyclists and drivers stop for people within the crosswalks? The crosswalk only makes it safer if both cyclists and drivers stop for people within the crosswalks.
Cyclists aren’t really interested in pedestrian safety. Neither are drivers but unlike cyclists they don’t claim to implement features that only have a dubious tie to pedestrian safety.
Do you also make sweeping generalizations about various ethnic and religious groups? Or is your bigotry restricted to making up silly stereotypes about people who use a different form of transportation than you?
You make think this is all fun and games, but the dehumanization of cyclists has really consequences. Consequences like this: https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-teens-13-15-charged-murder-hit-and-run-bicyclist-posted-social-media. Odds are that Scott Habermehl would have still been alive if there were a bike lane on that road.
Pfft. Even cyclists' moms think they are obnoxious, entitled *ssholes. They are the worst people on the road.