Connecticut Avenue bike lane officially dead

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Blocking traffic at rush hour is not about being jerks to drivers? Isn't that the entire point?

No. It's about riding bikes, making friends, and having fun. It's not about you.

Thanks for admitting that the purpose is an illegal assembly without a permit.

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Please alert the proper authorities and stop these pesky exercisers

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It is a recurring event, a social gathering. No more, no less. It has been going on for quite some time. You had never heard about it before, so it clearly has never impacted you in any way, shape or form. You seem angry.

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Blocking traffic at rush hour is not about being jerks to drivers? Isn't that the entire point?

No. It's about riding bikes, making friends, and having fun. It's not about you.

Thanks for admitting that the purpose is an illegal assembly without a permit.

??????

You seem seriously unhinged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly think it was mostly a financial decision. Yes, they settled on Concept C, but once they got into the design process, there were issues that had not been accounted for such as the 300 + driveways along Connecticut. Dealing with all of this was not impossible, but it would require going back to the drawing board, which is expensive at a time when the city is facing years of tight budgets. That plus the mayor's stated desire to bring people downtown add up to maintaining the most major route downtown. I live in NW and though I mostly work from home, when I go downtown, I drive. It's generally faster and more reliable than the Metro, and I'm not inclined to bike downtown for dinner, theatre, or business meetings. The same is true for most people I know. It's not only Marylanders who oppose the bike lanes.

Most people just uber down, to avoid looking for a parking spot.

That said, having 24/7 parking on both sides of Connecticut Avenue will be a worse result for trying to get people to drive downtown than anything having to do with "Concept C"

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Blocking traffic at rush hour is not about being jerks to drivers? Isn't that the entire point?

No. It's about riding bikes, making friends, and having fun. It's not about you.

Thanks for admitting that the purpose is an illegal assembly without a permit.

??????

You seem seriously unhinged.

You think it’s legal to use public roads as a meetup with your friends while obstructing traffic?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

-DC Bike Party is not about you, a random driver.
-Yes, it is about me!
-No, really it isn't.
-It is! It is! It's about me.
-No, it's not.
-It's about me! It couldn't not be about me!
-It's really not about you.
-Me! Me! It's about me!

You have no response except "nuh uh"?

There's thousands of streets in DC. If cyclists create an event designed to slow car traffic, and they hold it on one of the busiest streets in the city, at a time of the day when it's likely to inconvenience the most number of drivers possible, then everyone is going to see that for what it is.

I say more power to them. I think cyclists are a bunch of obnoxious a-holes and with events like this, they quite effectively, if inadvertently, prove my point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Blocking traffic at rush hour is not about being jerks to drivers? Isn't that the entire point?

No. It's about riding bikes, making friends, and having fun. It's not about you.

Thanks for admitting that the purpose is an illegal assembly without a permit.

??????

You seem seriously unhinged.

You think it’s legal to use public roads as a meetup with your friends while obstructing traffic?

Get off DCUM and report the planned illegal acts immediately!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Blocking traffic at rush hour is not about being jerks to drivers? Isn't that the entire point?

No. It's about riding bikes, making friends, and having fun. It's not about you.

Thanks for admitting that the purpose is an illegal assembly without a permit.

??????

You seem seriously unhinged.

You think it’s legal to use public roads as a meetup with your friends while obstructing traffic?

Im a DP and I don't see how people legally using a lane of the road are obstructing traffic. Bikes are allowed on the road, same as cars. There's no limit on quantity

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

-DC Bike Party is not about you, a random driver.
-Yes, it is about me!
-No, really it isn't.
-It is! It is! It's about me.
-No, it's not.
-It's about me! It couldn't not be about me!
-It's really not about you.
-Me! Me! It's about me!

You have no response except "nuh uh"?

There's thousands of streets in DC. If cyclists create an event designed to slow car traffic, and they hold it on one of the busiest streets in the city, at a time of the day when it's likely to inconvenience the most number of drivers possible, then everyone is going to see that for what it is.

I say more power to them. I think cyclists are a bunch of obnoxious a-holes and with events like this, they quite effectively, if inadvertently, prove my point.

It really is not about you. No matter how much you want to think it's about you, it's not about you. I'm sorry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

The point is for people that enjoy biking to meet each other and bike together in a safe group in case any drivers attempt violence

A curious rationale indeed for an event designed to provoke drivers!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

The point is for people that enjoy biking to meet each other and bike together in a safe group in case any drivers attempt violence

A curious rationale indeed for an event designed to provoke drivers!

I keep thinking back to the person who thought bikers were the ones that were self obsessed

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

The point is for people that enjoy biking to meet each other and bike together in a safe group in case any drivers attempt violence

A curious rationale indeed for an event designed to provoke drivers!

I keep thinking back to the person who thought bikers were the ones that were self obsessed

Except that some of you have explicitly said that that is the reason for this event.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

The point is for people that enjoy biking to meet each other and bike together in a safe group in case any drivers attempt violence

A curious rationale indeed for an event designed to provoke drivers!

I keep thinking back to the person who thought bikers were the ones that were self obsessed

Except that some of you have explicitly said that that is the reason for this event.

Just for you I went back and read every post today about the party and don't see anything along those lines

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

The point is for people that enjoy biking to meet each other and bike together in a safe group in case any drivers attempt violence

A curious rationale indeed for an event designed to provoke drivers!

I keep thinking back to the person who thought bikers were the ones that were self obsessed

Except that some of you have explicitly said that that is the reason for this event.

Are they in the room with you right now?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bike Party is heading up and down Conn Ave today. Join the fun at 7:30pm at Dupont.

Things like this just teach people to hate cyclists.

Sounds pretty fun to me

Ok, well don't complain when drivers are dicks to you too. Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

What are you talking about? I don't like it when drivers are jerks when I'm driving. Or when I'm bicycling. Or when I'm walking. Or even when I'm just sitting somewhere. "Don't be a jerk when you drive" seems like a basic good principle.

I'm sorry if you think the bike party people are out there to make you miserable, because they're not. They're not thinking about you at all.

Well, it certainly sounds like you're going out of your way, even setting a time and date in advance, to be an *sshole to countless perfect strangers.

DC Bike Party is about a group of people riding bikes - in this case, on Connecticut Ave, after 7:30 pm, on a weekday. If you think that's "being a jerk to countless perfect strangers", that's a you issue.

Are you really this obtuse?

This is a classic PF response on twitter when they don't have a real response

The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.