Anonymous wrote:The premise of a lot of cycling people is that there is pent up demand of people who want to bicycle but who don’t because they feel unsafe.

What if people just don’t like riding bicycles? It’s seems like an impossible thing for these pro-bike people to fathom.

One of the most supposedly most successful bike paths in the country is the CCT. Even on its best days of the year it’s a fraction of one lane of average daily traffic volume on any basic arterial road. The other successful bike in the city, the 15th Street cycletrack, on peak days does not even replace 25% of the average daily traffic volume of the one lane that it replaced. Meanwhile, cyclist complain that they feel unsafe because the two way traffic is too narrow and they are lobbying to widen it.

The fact is, even successful bicycle infrastructure is extremely inefficient and wasteful use of public resources in doing the thing that transportation infrastructure is supposed to do, move people around quickly.

Sooner or later smart cities will come to this conclusion too.

Anonymous wrote:Same hysterical poster posting over and over again.

Your problem is that those of us who actually LIVE in DC don't have a problem. I live in southwest and walk to work. I would walk my kid to his school. He now goes to GW and has no problem getting to and from and can even walk on a nice day. My car sits in its space all week and only gets used for weekend outings.

It's you suburbanites who are bringing your problems to us, because of your overdependence on cars. Your lousy VA and MD planners gave you cookie cutter subdivisions, they gave you strip malls, they gave you sprawl and pedestrian-unfriendly roads, poor mass transit and the need to use a car in order to do anything whatsoever and you've accepted that as fine. It's really your problem that you created.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so eff-ing sick of how DC is making it more and more difficult to drive to work. You destroyed L Street NW, it used to carry 4 lanes of traffic and now only one lane goes through (after eliminating the useless bike lane the left lane that is forced to turn left, and the right lane that is full of illegally parked vehicles). You destroyed 20th street NW by narrowing it to one lane to take traffic out of downtown. Massachusetts Ave NW is impassable due to construction and potholes. Metro is dangerous and useless. DC is like a eff-ing third world country.

If you live in VA or MD, who even cares what you think...

Imagine if DC cars came to your soulless exurb to fishtail around your cul-de-sac, you'd be the first to cry about the children and clamor for a police crackdown!

FOTM is that DC needs a steep commuter tax and charge tolls to enter downtown DC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any bike lanes at all in Wards 7 or 8?

It's almost like bike lanes are the whitest things ever.

Wards 7 and 8 have a ton of bicycles.
Ignoring poor black neighborhoods is the whitest thing ever.

Ward 8's Black Council member is to blame for its lack of bike lanes. He kills all plans, per DDOT.

Try again.

Anonymous wrote:I am so eff-ing sick of how DC is making it more and more difficult to drive to work. You destroyed L Street NW, it used to carry 4 lanes of traffic and now only one lane goes through (after eliminating the useless bike lane the left lane that is forced to turn left, and the right lane that is full of illegally parked vehicles). You destroyed 20th street NW by narrowing it to one lane to take traffic out of downtown. Massachusetts Ave NW is impassable due to construction and potholes. Metro is dangerous and useless. DC is like a eff-ing third world country.

Anonymous wrote:Same hysterical poster posting over and over again.

Your problem is that those of us who actually LIVE in DC don't have a problem. I live in southwest and walk to work. I would walk my kid to his school. He now goes to GW and has no problem getting to and from and can even walk on a nice day. My car sits in its space all week and only gets used for weekend outings.

It's you suburbanites who are bringing your problems to us, because of your overdependence on cars. Your lousy VA and MD planners gave you cookie cutter subdivisions, they gave you strip malls, they gave you sprawl and pedestrian-unfriendly roads, poor mass transit and the need to use a car in order to do anything whatsoever and you've accepted that as fine. It's really your problem that you created.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The premise of a lot of cycling people is that there is pent up demand of people who want to bicycle but who don’t because they feel unsafe.

What if people just don’t like riding bicycles? It’s seems like an impossible thing for these pro-bike people to fathom.

One of the most supposedly most successful bike paths in the country is the CCT. Even on its best days of the year it’s a fraction of one lane of average daily traffic volume on any basic arterial road. The other successful bike in the city, the 15th Street cycletrack, on peak days does not even replace 25% of the average daily traffic volume of the one lane that it replaced. Meanwhile, cyclist complain that they feel unsafe because the two way traffic is too narrow and they are lobbying to widen it.

The fact is, even successful bicycle infrastructure is extremely inefficient and wasteful use of public resources in doing the thing that transportation infrastructure is supposed to do, move people around quickly.

Sooner or later smart cities will come to this conclusion too.

For the people who don’t like riding bicycles, in Europe there are also electric bikes, and electric scooters.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The premise of a lot of cycling people is that there is pent up demand of people who want to bicycle but who don’t because they feel unsafe.

What if people just don’t like riding bicycles? It’s seems like an impossible thing for these pro-bike people to fathom.

One of the most supposedly most successful bike paths in the country is the CCT. Even on its best days of the year it’s a fraction of one lane of average daily traffic volume on any basic arterial road. The other successful bike in the city, the 15th Street cycletrack, on peak days does not even replace 25% of the average daily traffic volume of the one lane that it replaced. Meanwhile, cyclist complain that they feel unsafe because the two way traffic is too narrow and they are lobbying to widen it.

The fact is, even successful bicycle infrastructure is extremely inefficient and wasteful use of public resources in doing the thing that transportation infrastructure is supposed to do, move people around quickly.

Sooner or later smart cities will come to this conclusion too.

Argument made about cycling but even if you remove every bike lane in the city, you won’t get much more car space (and will get the hardcore cyclists taking up an entire car lane and slowing things down even more). So what is your solution? Fund/fix metro? Kick out all the people to widen roads? No parking? Tons of parking under the mall?

The solution is more transit genius.

Anonymous wrote:The premise of a lot of cycling people is that there is pent up demand of people who want to bicycle but who don’t because they feel unsafe.

What if people just don’t like riding bicycles? It’s seems like an impossible thing for these pro-bike people to fathom.

One of the most supposedly most successful bike paths in the country is the CCT. Even on its best days of the year it’s a fraction of one lane of average daily traffic volume on any basic arterial road. The other successful bike in the city, the 15th Street cycletrack, on peak days does not even replace 25% of the average daily traffic volume of the one lane that it replaced. Meanwhile, cyclist complain that they feel unsafe because the two way traffic is too narrow and they are lobbying to widen it.

The fact is, even successful bicycle infrastructure is extremely inefficient and wasteful use of public resources in doing the thing that transportation infrastructure is supposed to do, move people around quickly.

Sooner or later smart cities will come to this conclusion too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the subway is going to be unusable, and everyone is fine with that, then we need to accommodate people where they are -- in cars.

There are going to be far more people on the roads and that means we need a lot more parking, more emphasis on easing traffic, etc. Ridership on the subway is down 75 percent from pre-pandemic levels.

I didnt used to drive all that much, but now with the subway basically in moth balls, I drive everywhere.

the only way to ease traffic in a compact city is to make driving harder not easier, We can't expand the DC road network.

Obviously, that's completely wrong. Traffic would be a lot better if the subway was a viable alternative. We could also tear out a lot of these bike lanes that barely anyone uses and turn them over to cars.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any bike lanes at all in Wards 7 or 8?

It's almost like bike lanes are the whitest things ever.

Wards 7 and 8 have a ton of bicycles.
Ignoring poor black neighborhoods is the whitest thing ever.

Anonymous wrote:Are there any bike lanes at all in Wards 7 or 8?

It's almost like bike lanes are the whitest things ever.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The premise of a lot of cycling people is that there is pent up demand of people who want to bicycle but who don’t because they feel unsafe.

What if people just don’t like riding bicycles? It’s seems like an impossible thing for these pro-bike people to fathom.

One of the most supposedly most successful bike paths in the country is the CCT. Even on its best days of the year it’s a fraction of one lane of average daily traffic volume on any basic arterial road. The other successful bike in the city, the 15th Street cycletrack, on peak days does not even replace 25% of the average daily traffic volume of the one lane that it replaced. Meanwhile, cyclist complain that they feel unsafe because the two way traffic is too narrow and they are lobbying to widen it.

The fact is, even successful bicycle infrastructure is extremely inefficient and wasteful use of public resources in doing the thing that transportation infrastructure is supposed to do, move people around quickly.

Sooner or later smart cities will come to this conclusion too.

Argument made about cycling but even if you remove every bike lane in the city, you won’t get much more car space (and will get the hardcore cyclists taking up an entire car lane and slowing things down even more). So what is your solution? Fund/fix metro? Kick out all the people to widen roads? No parking? Tons of parking under the mall?