That’s the point. The reporting on this has been bad because reporters are treating it as a good faith lawsuit, when in reality it’s more Nick DelleDonne and Ed Hanlon nonsense. They’re both nutters and seemingly the sole (or at least primary) people behind the Dupont East Civic Action Association (one of the plaintiffs in this suit) and have made opposing bike lanes on 17th St NW his raison d’etre (also really hate the apartment building at 15th and S). DelleDonne has previously been featured on this subreddit for stunts like setting up a table with a coffee urn blocking bike lanes between a parking lane and sidewalk (meaning bikers had to dismount and carry their bikes on the sidewalk to get around him), holding town halls wherein he blamed bike lanes for children getting killed by cars, and, most hilariously, blaming bike lanes for inflation. This suit has little to do with safety for disabled people; it’s just about blocking bike lanes.