‘Slow Streets’ is stupid

[Anonymous]

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They are roads, not sidewalks. They were built for car traffic. Are you on one of those blocks who just blocked it off yourselves with cones last year, thinking the pandemic somehow just changed all the rules? If you don't like the way your street works, move. It is not up to you to alter DC traffic. You should have done the homework about traffic in your neighborhood before you moved in.

No, they weren't. Streets are for everyone. ESPECIALLY city streets. If you want to live somewhere where roads are for cars, don't live in DC. Actually, don't live anywhere in the DC area.

Streets are for everyone, but their purpose is transportation. We have other public spaces for recreation.

They’re called parks and they are everywhere.

If you want your kids playing in the street, you are a bad parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Slow streets just seems selfish. It doesn’t change the total amount of traffic. It just forces more traffic onto neighboring streets so people on the chosen streets get less. What does that accomplish?

The whole thing is dumb. It accomplishes nothing.

As long as scofflaw drivers like yourself believe this, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[Anonymous]

We used to play "street hockey" in the streets when we were kids. We would post a look out and everybody would shout "car" when cars came. Was this not a thing anywhere else in the country.

I am not sure why kids cannot play in the streets.

[Anonymous]

We should just ban cars

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should just ban cars

+1, THIS.

Reclaim the streets for PEOPLE. Not machines.

[Anonymous]

I posted about street hockey.

But I also have no issues with people using cars.

Not sure why we cannot have both.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We should just ban cars

+1, THIS.

Reclaim the streets for PEOPLE. Not machines.

Hating cars is the ultimate entitled white people cause.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used to play "street hockey" in the streets when we were kids. We would post a look out and everybody would shout "car" when cars came. Was this not a thing anywhere else in the country.

I am not sure why kids cannot play in the streets.

We did that, except kickball.

Kids can play in the streets when drivers are willing to drive slowly and share the streets with kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should just ban cars

+1, THIS.

Reclaim the streets for PEOPLE. Not machines.

Hating cars is the ultimate entitled white people cause.

I'd rather be a white person who feels entitled to clean air and safer streets than one who feels entitled to guzzle as much fossil fuels as I can and doesn't care about the negative side affects.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We used to play "street hockey" in the streets when we were kids. We would post a look out and everybody would shout "car" when cars came. Was this not a thing anywhere else in the country.

I am not sure why kids cannot play in the streets.

We did that, except kickball.

Kids can play in the streets when drivers are willing to drive slowly and share the streets with kids.

This is hilarious. It is blindingly obvious to everyone except you (apparently) that you don’t have kids. But, please, tell those of us who actually do rear children how they’d be better off in the streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We used to play "street hockey" in the streets when we were kids. We would post a look out and everybody would shout "car" when cars came. Was this not a thing anywhere else in the country.

I am not sure why kids cannot play in the streets.

We did that, except kickball.

Kids can play in the streets when drivers are willing to drive slowly and share the streets with kids.

This is hilarious. It is blindingly obvious to everyone except you (apparently) that you don’t have kids. But, please, tell those of us who actually do rear children how they’d be better off in the streets.

Slow down, and share the streets with kids and everybody else who is using them. That's all you have to do. If you can't do that, you shouldn't have a driver's license.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We used to play "street hockey" in the streets when we were kids. We would post a look out and everybody would shout "car" when cars came. Was this not a thing anywhere else in the country.

I am not sure why kids cannot play in the streets.

We did that, except kickball.

Kids can play in the streets when drivers are willing to drive slowly and share the streets with kids.

My kids would rather go to a playground. DC has extremely nice playgrounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We used to play "street hockey" in the streets when we were kids. We would post a look out and everybody would shout "car" when cars came. Was this not a thing anywhere else in the country.

I am not sure why kids cannot play in the streets.

We did that, except kickball.

Kids can play in the streets when drivers are willing to drive slowly and share the streets with kids.

My kids would rather go to a playground. DC has extremely nice playgrounds.

That's fine. Nobody is forcing your children to play street hockey (or whatever) instead of going to a playground.

I will point out, however, that older children - of the age to play street hockey (or whatever) - generally consider themselves to be too old to play at playgrounds with the little kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should just ban cars

+1, THIS.

Reclaim the streets for PEOPLE. Not machines.

Hating cars is the ultimate entitled white people cause.

I'd rather be a white person who feels entitled to clean air and safer streets than one who feels entitled to guzzle as much fossil fuels as I can and doesn't care about the negative side affects.

100% this.

If this year has demonstrated anything, it’s that we can all function without a car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We used to play "street hockey" in the streets when we were kids. We would post a look out and everybody would shout "car" when cars came. Was this not a thing anywhere else in the country.

I am not sure why kids cannot play in the streets.

We did that, except kickball.

Kids can play in the streets when drivers are willing to drive slowly and share the streets with kids.

My kids would rather go to a playground. DC has extremely nice playgrounds.

That's fine. Nobody is forcing your children to play street hockey (or whatever) instead of going to a playground.

I will point out, however, that older children - of the age to play street hockey (or whatever) - generally consider themselves to be too old to play at playgrounds with the little kids.

There’s parks everywhere. DC has more green space than any other big city in America. This idea that kids need to play in the streets because there’s nowhere for them to go is very strange. Nearly everyone in the entire city is within a 10 minute walk to a park.