Survey posted for MTP Bike Elements Update

[elbows]

If I may, I will offer the comment that while I appreciate the survey and think it is pretty good, it does not offer a chance to speak to an important element of what Arlington County could do to help people feel safer on bikes – enforcement.

ACPD is not on bikes (except for rare exceptions like events), and rarely cites drivers for the type of infractions like close passing that make cyclists unsafe. Bike lanes without a plastic bollards are vehicle pullover lanes. You can barely ride for 1 minute without encountering a vehicle and I have never seen enforcement of that in Arlington. Then there are things like this.

[Henry]

Elbows:

Thank you. I will add this to the other comments we received separate from the survey.

Henry

[Dewey]

Some of the comments on the ArlNow post on the survey are unreal.

[chris_s]

@Dewey 168899 wrote:

Some of the comments on the ArlNow post on the survey are unreal.

Compared to the vitriol of years past, I found them surprisingly tame.

Mostly complaints about self-selection which is a valid criticism (response: we didn’t have a budget for a statistically-valid survey).

[Judd]

@chris_s 169030 wrote:

Compared to the vitriol of years past, I found them surprisingly tame.

Mostly complaints about self-selection which is a valid criticism (response: we didn’t have a budget for a statistically-valid survey).

Especially compared to the normal comments about how it’s okay to murder me because I’m on a bike, very tame.

It would have been nice to get a broad community survey. I think the results are still helpful though since the it captured people that are interested in biking.

[Author]

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