The “bike riding elite” is a real group of people but it’s like 15 guys that live in the most expensive part of San Francisco. They aren’t in DC.
Also if you refer to DC as just “Washington” in your writing I fucking hate you and you shouldn’t be a journalist, no one refers to it that way, Washington is a different thing, call it DC like a normal person. “The residential neighborhoods of Washington” bro how many cyclists could possibly be bothering you in Spokane? Wait “east coast city”? Oh you meant a completely different place from Washington.
That shouldn’t even be a question, that’s like, the easy compromise option where you don’t even have to actually fix any of the societal ills caused by slavery.