> When a neighborhood is extremely walkable, are bike lanes everywhere necessary?

In my opinion, probably not. However, an extremely walkable neighborhood would be devoid of cars. And if there aren't any cars, bike lanes are less necessary.

Of course not, they throw them into the canals, Viking-style.

Fuck those people.

Not because they're old or disabled, but because they want the maximum number of cars.

People have argued that cyclists are actually bigger contributors to CO2 emissions than drivers because they're breathing harder.

Ban people then.

A few weeks ago I was walking with my wife and we stopped to look both ways before crossing the intersection. A dude in some riced out Honda Civic is barreling down the street and definitely not gonna stop or slow down. It wasn't until about 15 feet before the stop sign that he slammed the brakes after noticing us. He sheepishly waved to try and signal "my bad".

We didn't start crossing until he came to a complete stop.

Flip that framing around. The barriers aren't to keep the cyclists "in", they're to keep the cars "out".

Cyclists aren't the problem.

>Any recs on where to go from here?

Solve your parking problems in three simple steps:

1. Sell your car
2. Buy a bike
3. Profit

Considering one of their questions was where OP was from, that's a strong possibility. If you know someone's birth city, that gives the first three digits.

Setting ambitious goals for public safety is good, but the snark is not undeserved. Traffic deaths have increased each year since Vision Zero was introduced and that is because the government isn't actively moving toward that goal.

If the city is serious about this, policy has to be focused on making the personal cars the last resort for traversing the city. And as much as people don't want to hear it, cars are the problem.

> Getting around DC sucks for most people.

The vast majority of that is due to cars.

Walking is stressful because you gotta be on alert for reckless drivers at intersections (and maybe the sidewalk!) and car-centric infrastructure making it difficult to traverse the city on foot.

Biking is stressful because you gotta share road space with angry people operating vehicles the size of Sherman tanks.

Transiting is stressful because the bus gets stuck behind all the cars idling/parked in the few dedicated bus lanes that exist or are just stuck in general traffic.

Driving sucks because you are contributing to and at the mercy of traffic from all the other cars on the road.

Get rid of the cars (or drastically limit their use) and this city will instantly become more pleasant and livable.

They weren't trying in the first place. A simple punctuation change would make this headline a bit more accurate.

"D.C Revamps Vision: Zero Effort"

I agree with you. My statement was in jest.

But what if people need that public space for long term storage of their vehicle?