What does Washington, D.C., have in common with Portland, Seattle, New York, Boston, Oakland, and Rochester? That was the question posed in a Guest Comment by Paul C. Dougherty last week in the Washington Business Journal . The answer, the president and CIO at PRP Real Estate Investment Management wrote, was that those cities removed protected bike lanes because they were “highly detrimental to commuting, unsafe and a failed experiment.”
The first part of this statement lacks crucial context. The second is incorrect.
The District Department of Transportation has removed, in total, less than half a mile of one bike lane. That portion of the bike lane was not removed because it was highly detrimental to commuting, unsafe, or a failed experiment. It was removed because of a miscommunication with ANCs over parking spaces. And it was around for less than a month.
Despite the removal of 0.4 miles of bike lane in 2019, things are not moving backward. Bike lanes here are not failed experiments.…
Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.
