Thanks to the bike party organizers!

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Anonymous wrote:Your daily reminder that the POLICE think bike lanes are a horrible idea on Connecticut Avenue. Only the socialists among us think increasing response time is a virtue.

Yesterday we were called anarchists, today we are called socialists. Probably tomorrow we will be called communists. No creativity, so disappointing.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

People are cyclists. Cyclists are people.

Let’s be real, cyclists are predominantly entitled early to middle age white men in spandex. Good thing their wives can handle the errands and child care pickups.

You make this too easy sometimes
https://x.com/dkrucoff/status/1779631215064101324?s=46&t=EwM4bfthPj_yHwyhXgwkdw

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Anonymous wrote:Your daily reminder that the POLICE think bike lanes are a horrible idea on Connecticut Avenue. Only the socialists among us think increasing response time is a virtue.

Yesterday we were called anarchists, today we are called socialists. Probably tomorrow we will be called communists. No creativity, so disappointing.

I always laugh when AOC calls herself a Socialist. In reality she is a moderate, and her views are not radically left at all.

It’s all about branding and her image, with her cool looking pop art political posters. So she can call herself whatever she wants but we can see right through it all.

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Anonymous wrote:Your daily reminder that the POLICE think bike lanes are a horrible idea on Connecticut Avenue. Only the socialists among us think increasing response time is a virtue.

Yesterday we were called anarchists, today we are called socialists. Probably tomorrow we will be called communists. No creativity, so disappointing.

I always laugh when AOC calls herself a Socialist. In reality she is a moderate, and her views are not radically left at all.

It’s all about branding and her image, with her cool looking pop art political posters. So she can call herself whatever she wants but we can see right through it all.

Yeah sure. Are you a stupid bartender too?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

People are cyclists. Cyclists are people.

Let’s be real, cyclists are predominantly entitled early to middle age white men in spandex. Good thing their wives can handle the errands and child care pickups.

"Honey can you pick up the dry cleaning, get the kids at soccer, feed them dinner and put them to bed? I need to go harass people who are in cars."

[Anonymous]

Ward 3 Dems head (and ex-ANC chair) Bo Finley is tweeting “f—- you” to bike lane skeptics. What is it about the ANC flicking off their constituents?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a spectacularly bad idea for people on bikes to *try* to piss off people in cars. They're going to cross the wrong person, and end up with a SUV parked on their chest.

Which is, once again, the reason we advocate so fiercely for dedicated bike lanes

Your game plan to get more bike lanes is to piss off drivers so much they want to run you over? Good luck with that. Pretty sure that's the worst advocacy campaign I've ever heard of.

To the contrary, I think it is brilliant. For the strategy simply adopts that which has worked so well for drivers. That is, when they routinely clog the roads with their vehicles (often single occupied) to the point of causing gridlock, drivers are often rewarded with extra lanes. No one can reasonably blame the cyclists for venturing that, by clogging the streets with their bicycles, our transportation officials might react in the usual manner and give them a lane or two of their own.

We already have 100+ miles of bike lanes that virtually no one uses. Start with that.

I didn't realize that everytime I saw a road with no cars on it, I could ask the city to tear it up and turn it into whatever I seem to be more useful. I'll need to start doing that.

You’re already doing exactly that right now with bike lanes, dummy

Are you really so obtuse and self absorbed that you didn’t realize how your post would sound to non-crazy people ????

Color me shocked that satire went straight over your head.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 Dems head (and ex-ANC chair) Bo Finley is tweeting “f—- you” to bike lane skeptics. What is it about the ANC flicking off their constituents?

That isn't where is ire was directed and I believe the tweet in question has since been deleted.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 Dems head (and ex-ANC chair) Bo Finley is tweeting “f—- you” to bike lane skeptics. What is it about the ANC flicking off their constituents?

They're all pissed that their scheme to sneak this through during the pandemic was discovered and that their lies about overwhelming neighborhood knowledge and support were exposed.

For the nth time a disconnect has been shown between their rhetoric and their actions.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

People are cyclists. Cyclists are people.

drivers too. so...maybe don't be such a dick?

When I am existing, on a bicycle, on a road, I am not doing it for the purpose of making you angry. In fact, I am not doing it for any purpose involving you at all.

This perfectly encapsulates the attitude. All about you. No one else exists but you. This is truly the most obnoxious and corrosive of America attitudes which is why we as a country cannot have nice things.

This is what the people of dcum think of someone who bikes to work I can't write this parody. Yall are truly legendary

It is absolutely fascinating that those who choose to drive as a single occupant along roads that others subsidize while consuming scarce non-renewable resources, generating emissions that impoverish billions now and in the future, and in oversized expensive vehicles that endanger everyone else in the road can accuse cyclists of being entitled, self-centered, obnoxious, corrosive and all sorts of other things while not bursting out laughing at their own absurdity.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

People are cyclists. Cyclists are people.

drivers too. so...maybe don't be such a dick?

When I am existing, on a bicycle, on a road, I am not doing it for the purpose of making you angry. In fact, I am not doing it for any purpose involving you at all.

This perfectly encapsulates the attitude. All about you. No one else exists but you. This is truly the most obnoxious and corrosive of America attitudes which is why we as a country cannot have nice things.

This is what the people of dcum think of someone who bikes to work I can't write this parody. Yall are truly legendary

It is absolutely fascinating that those who choose to drive as a single occupant along roads that others subsidize while consuming scarce non-renewable resources, generating emissions that impoverish billions now and in the future, and in oversized expensive vehicles that endanger everyone else in the road can accuse cyclists of being entitled, self-centered, obnoxious, corrosive and all sorts of other things while not bursting out laughing at their own absurdity.

And they do it in some gigantic luxury SUV, not some Fiat.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a spectacularly bad idea for people on bikes to *try* to piss off people in cars. They're going to cross the wrong person, and end up with a SUV parked on their chest.

Which is, once again, the reason we advocate so fiercely for dedicated bike lanes

Your game plan to get more bike lanes is to piss off drivers so much they want to run you over? Good luck with that. Pretty sure that's the worst advocacy campaign I've ever heard of.

To the contrary, I think it is brilliant. For the strategy simply adopts that which has worked so well for drivers. That is, when they routinely clog the roads with their vehicles (often single occupied) to the point of causing gridlock, drivers are often rewarded with extra lanes. No one can reasonably blame the cyclists for venturing that, by clogging the streets with their bicycles, our transportation officials might react in the usual manner and give them a lane or two of their own.

We already have 100+ miles of bike lanes that virtually no one uses. Start with that.

I didn't realize that everytime I saw a road with no cars on it, I could ask the city to tear it up and turn it into whatever I seem to be more useful. I'll need to start doing that.

You’re already doing exactly that right now with bike lanes, dummy

Are you really so obtuse and self absorbed that you didn’t realize how your post would sound to non-crazy people ????

Color me shocked that satire went straight over your head.

Satire, huh?

Sure it was. After you were made aware of it, suddenly it becomes satire.

Right.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 Dems head (and ex-ANC chair) Bo Finley is tweeting “f—- you” to bike lane skeptics. What is it about the ANC flicking off their constituents?

They're all pissed that their scheme to sneak this through during the pandemic was discovered and that their lies about overwhelming neighborhood knowledge and support were exposed.

For the nth time a disconnect has been shown between their rhetoric and their actions.

Are are over 50 public meetings, all available during and post COVID on zoom, "sneaking through?"

It is a far, far cry from the actual sneaking through that took place in the decades before when meetings were only in person at really inconvenient times for working people and parents of small kids that the ANC and CPCA routinely had. The meetings around this effort were attended by hundreds of people at a time - far more than would ever have participated in regular in-person pre-COVID ANC meetings.

Hardly undemocratic.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 Dems head (and ex-ANC chair) Bo Finley is tweeting “f—- you” to bike lane skeptics. What is it about the ANC flicking off their constituents?

They're all pissed that their scheme to sneak this through during the pandemic was discovered and that their lies about overwhelming neighborhood knowledge and support were exposed.

For the nth time a disconnect has been shown between their rhetoric and their actions.

Are are over 50 public meetings, all available during and post COVID on zoom, "sneaking through?"

It is a far, far cry from the actual sneaking through that took place in the decades before when meetings were only in person at really inconvenient times for working people and parents of small kids that the ANC and CPCA routinely had. The meetings around this effort were attended by hundreds of people at a time - far more than would ever have participated in regular in-person pre-COVID ANC meetings.

Hardly undemocratic.

"Reversible Lane Study"

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 Dems head (and ex-ANC chair) Bo Finley is tweeting “f—- you” to bike lane skeptics. What is it about the ANC flicking off their constituents?

That isn't where is ire was directed and I believe the tweet in question has since been deleted.

Beau Finley ran and lost for city council. Understandably so.