Too crowded. DMV governors and mayors: please dedicate streets to walkers and bikers

[Anonymous]

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jsteele wrote:Mayor Bowser just announced that NPS has agreed to close Beach Drive and roads in Anacostia Park and Fort Dupont Park to cars:

Brilliant.

She closes a road in the middle of a park, that doesn’t go from anywhere, to anywhere, and has no easy way to get to it, unless you live right next to it, so people will have a place to exercise.

What a consummate idiot.

You are the idiot who must not know Rock Creek Park or Beach Drive which bisect some of the cities densest neighborhoods.

And RCP has been jammed with people the last month. Where Beach Drive is closed it is fine and there is plenty of room for people to safely avoid one another.

But the lower parts of the park where it is only the 6 foot wide multi-use path is where people cannot safely avoid one another.

In any case if the road that doesn't go from anywhere to anywhere is closed (which isn't true FWIW) what the hell do you care?

This is a really good thing! The park is unbelievably crowded lately and really needed the space.

[Anonymous]

I live in the western suburbs and finally saw this issue today. The weather was so nice that the sidewalks were busy enough that I saw a runner having to go into a road to maintain a safe space because of the dog walkers who weren't giving an inch. I have complained about runners on this post and others in the past but what I saw today opened my eyes. It is tough for people to share outdoor space. I'm sorry for bashing runners.

[Anonymous]

Just keep in mind that people who still have to go to work cannot take public transportation. I have to drive to get work. I am careful and of course I watch for peds and bikers but I cannot drive on the sidewalk or the bike path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just keep in mind that people who still have to go to work cannot take public transportation. I have to drive to get work. I am careful and of course I watch for peds and bikers but I cannot drive on the sidewalk or the bike path.

Actually plenty of people who still have to go work are, in fact, taking public transportation.

And the people who are going to work and driving can drive in one lane, while everybody else uses the rest of the lanes in the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Driving, and yes, the freedom to put the pedal down a little, are the way a lot of people are coping right now. Get over it.

Stop doing that. And really stop "putting the pedal down a little." EMS right now has better things to do than extract you from your crashed motor vehicle and take you to the ER.

[Anonymous]

This thread is clear evidence that cars turn otherwise normal people into complete psychopaths. All cars should be crushed into scrap metal.

[Anonymous]

There's an easy solution for this: open more streets for people, all over the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in the western suburbs and finally saw this issue today. The weather was so nice that the sidewalks were busy enough that I saw a runner having to go into a road to maintain a safe space because of the dog walkers who weren't giving an inch. I have complained about runners on this post and others in the past but what I saw today opened my eyes. It is tough for people to share outdoor space. I'm sorry for bashing runners.

Dog walkers are arguably worse

[Anonymous]

The sidewalks are empty. There's no one even on the Mall. You can walk literally anywhere you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sidewalks are empty. There's no one even on the Mall. You can walk literally anywhere you want.

We drove by the Mall and it was creepy how everyone is just gone.

[Anonymous]

There's probably 400,000 people in DC who drive.

How many people ride bikes? 300? 400? Let's be generous and and call it 1,000 people.

And they want to dictate policy for everyone else.

Maybe bikers are nothing more than a noisy, self-centered special interest group.

[Anonymous]

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So the anti-car jihadists are really just doing it for the old people? Right.

Also, do you actually live here? There are TONS of places to walk where you will not run into anyone. If you walked up 16th Street, starting at Piney Branch, and went all the way up to the Maryland border, I bet you could count on one hand the number of people you would pass on the sidewalk.

People want to walk in their own neighborhoods, not get in a car (assuming they have a car and can drive it) and drive to somewhere else in the city so that they can get out and walk and then get back in their car and drive home.

They can. There's hardly anyone out. I could walk for miles in my neighborhoods without running into anyone.

That's nice for you, but people who are not you, who live in neighborhoods that are not yours, are in fact unable to walk in their own neighborhoods at appropriate distances. Including in the suburbs.

Where is this happening? Be specific -- which streets are too crowded to walk on?

This is a phony baloney problem ginned up by the anti-car jihadists who are trying to take advantage of the coronavirus emergency.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is clear evidence that cars turn otherwise normal people into complete psychopaths. All cars should be crushed into scrap metal.

And how are people supposed to get around then? What about police? Fire departments? Deliveries? Taxis and ride share? How are people supposed to get from point A to points B, C and D, none of which are on a metro line or bus route?

How?

[Anonymous]

How about giving cyclists and joggers windows in the day? Before 7 am, after 6 pm? And the exception is cyclists commuting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about giving cyclists and joggers windows in the day? Before 7 am, after 6 pm? And the exception is cyclists commuting.

So you haven't gone for a walk in 12 years, and now you want to give the runners and cyclists rules? Unbelievable sense of entitlement much?