W3BA letter to Councilmember Cheh on recent city deaths

The best kind of cargo.

You think a person on a bike rolling through a stop sign angers a driver? Try coming to a complete stop, looking in all directions then proceeding with caution.

This is wild:
"When a household buys an e-bike, their driving (as measured by vehicle miles traveled, or VMT) decreases by more than a third."
via @ggwash https://ggwash.org/view/88025/analysis-e-bike-subsidies-are-more-cost-effective-than-ev-subsidies

D.C. residents hoping for safer streets, please join @Ward3Bikes' effort to convince @DDOTDC to reconsider a cars-first safety reduction on the planned Connecticut Avenue NW re-do. Get involved: https://mailchi.mp/3b3f567a2edb/ddot-prioritizes-parking-in-the-design-of-the-ct-ave-bike-lane?e=84ac344ee9

@MetBranchTrail @GWBoardofTrade @axios @Ward3Bikes @WABADC @betterDCregion @ggwash @GW_Partnership @dcstcoalition @tomsherwood People are spending $10k per year on transportation because it is so hard to go without a car. Transforming the city so you don't need a car will lower the cost of living and put more money into people's pockets. They can spend that money at local businesses.

Studies consistently show that business owners overestimate how many customers come by car, undercounting those who walk, bike, or use transit. Why?

🔹 The biz owners themselves drive, and assume others do too
🔹 Drivers *love* to complain about parking
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-08/for-store-owners-bike-lanes-boost-the-bottom-line

"In the year after the bike lanes arrived, businesses on Skillman Ave saw sales rise by 12%, compared to 3% for Queens in general."

"The thing is, the actual merchants along Skillman? They didn’t believe it."
https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-over-bike-lanes-needs-a-mindset-shift/

Anti-bike lane folks are now trolling my parenting skills?!? This is in response to sharing how happy and healthy my preschooler is by going to school by bike.
This only illustrates that we need safe routes to school and well, everywhere else.

@WHands80 @HumaImtiaz5E04 @veleau_monica @axios I was at at ANC meeting once about NS bike lanes into DC and the ANC members were arguing that some other street was better suited for a bike lane and Jim Sebastian said “Yeah, we want one there too” and they just all looked so deflated.