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We can advocate, and they can fund if there is money for it. Here, it appears there is not. I see no reason to doubt the claims that there were significant cost overruns in non-optional work. Frankly, I think the tunnel would have been cramped, slow and not a high quality experience.

We’re going to have a lot of battles for infra in the County over the next several decades. MoCo is just starting on the process of building and retrofitting a bike network. I’d rather save good will for bigger fights than this.

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Without the tunnel, the route will go through a park, onto a PBL for a short block to the intersection at a busy street (Wisconsin Ave.), then continue in a PBL for a long block to the Woodmont intersection. The light at Wisconsin would be converted to have a dedicated pedestrian and cyclist crossing period. The crossing of Wisconsin is less than ideal, to be sure, but what price one intersection? I’m happier that other, worse crossings will be grade separated, like Connecticut Ave where speeding cross traffic is a big problem.

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I get the anger at the supposed bait and switch, though I recall the promises less than absolute. I’m not for making this a hill to die on, though. The price tag is pretty steep for avoiding one intersection, and it’s not like you can cruise through at speed anyway, given that there’s a signalized crossing a block to the West at extremely crowded Woodmont Ave.

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It would be hit or miss. All buildings with parking garages are required to have bike parking on the first level, but it’s not required to be open to the public. Some will have two racks, one inside a cage and one not; others will just have controlled access cages.

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I feel your pain, dude. MoCo isn’t even up to the point of paying lip service yet.

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Bells and lights. The two great trail debates that will never be settled.

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None of it makes any sense. There are tens of thousands of electric bikes in NYC right now, largely piloted by poorer workers who are subject at any time to having the police confiscate their vehicle, or, if (or more likely, when) it gets stolen, they cannot look the police to help recover a vehicle they could not legally own anyway. The ban is pretty evil.

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There are many websites that offer a variety of often somewhat contradictory advice on commuting in general, and winter commuting in particular. I would check those out, and then not go wild buying everything at once, since you will find out what works for you by trial and error. I assume you will be riding along the MVT and CCT. You will definitely need a bell and a front light.

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This one’s a total head scratcher. “Electric-scooter rentals will not be coming to New York and the electric bicycles favored by New York City delivery workers will remain illegal after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have legalized both types of battery-powered transport. . . ‘Failure to include these basic measures renders this legislation fatally flawed,’ the governor said in his veto message. He specifically referred to the lack of a requirement that riders of the battery-powered conveyances wear helmets as one of his main objections.”

Scientific and statistical illiteracy wins.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/nyregion/Ebikes-scooters-Bill-ny.html

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My mother has seen them at Broad Branch and Linnean Ave. There’s a small but stable population in the Park.

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I do not recommend chicken bikes.

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The conclusory statement that the protected lanes are safer is unproven. It’s logical, to be sure, but should not be stated as a fact. The only fact is that they felt safer to women, and that’s nothing to sneeze at.

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I yell pretty damn loud, and it’s saved me more than once. If others feel they can’t yell as loudly, then they may need more than a bell.

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I’ve seen ads for one somewhere recently.

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I broke a rib once from a bar end ramming into me.

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