Wednesday Afternoon Commute - disappearing bollards

12/12/12 - double the number of the Beast. [Forgot to publish this yesterday]

• Why did DC try to build a bus depot in Ivy City? So that they can build more bike lanes and dog parks of course. And they would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that meddling Milloy. Once again Milloy pits the trivial amount of money spent on bike lanes against job training, even though spending nothing on bike lanes would free up $0 for job training (that money comes almost entirely from federal transportation funding and has to be spent on projects that relate to transportation). DCist adds "So as you're riding to work on the 15th Street cycletrack, just think: you're basically riding on the broken dreams of the city's underclass, you monster."
• City Cycling has a lot of data.
• This is how you separate a bike facility (and thank goodness too, since drivers seem to be crashing into the bollards despite their heft). 
• Another description of the M Street SE/SW proposals.
• BikeArlington = Winning

Comments

[T]

Well bike lanes are part of "the man['s]" ultimate "the plan" to disenfranchise "chocolate city" (otherwise known as "gentrification").

Courtland is such a joke. The guy hates anyone who isn't Black AND poor or whom believes in not viewing people by their race. Don't get him started on poor Hispanics or poor Whites. Or, worse, poor mixed couples. The guy is a racist and represents the worst of DC.

[Kolohe]

"you're basically riding on the broken dreams of the city's underclass

Is that why it's so choppy around RI Ave? Now I know. (*1/2 battle achievement unlocked*)

BTW, did that ANC person with the sign 'vote for me and this [the 15th street track] will be repaved' wind up getting elected?

[Mike]

That's not how you separate a bike facility--those are decorative bollards rather than something to actually stop traffic. I guarantee that the ones you see in front of all the federal buildings don't break off when you hit them with a car. If they don't want to put in real bollards for some reason, they'd be better off with a jersey wall than those things.