Demonstrational Bike Lanes May Save Bus Lane Dialogues- Greater Greater Washington
By Zach Roten
“There are no easy bike lanes left to be built in the city,” Mayor Muriel Bowser told the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly Community during its April 2023 monthly meeting.
Whether there ever were depends on your vantage point. Nonetheless, the District Department of Transportation is certainly planning, designing, and implementing more, and more sophisticated, bike lanes, in more places, than it was a decade ago. Commensurate with this increase in projects—which are necessary to achieve the ambitious mode-shift goals the District has set for itself, as well as its goal of zero deaths on its roadways—has been an increase in organized opposition.
