Let's look at some of the goofy things Bowser wants to spend our tax dollars on

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Anonymous wrote:
I'd rather have cops solve or prevent violent crimes.

News flash: MPD isn't very good at preventing violent crimes, nevertheless solving them. Still haven't made any arrests in the case of that doctor getting run down with his own car.

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It would be nice if DC re-striped the crosswalks near the DCPS that my kids attend. The crosswalks are so faded that drivers can't see them.

Drivers here don't respect crosswalks, painted or not.

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Anonymous wrote:DC is putting in bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, one in each direction. While this may seem like an attractive idea, the rush hour carrying capacity of Conn. Ave. will be cut from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes. DC just assumes that the traffic will just go away, or maybe MD commuters will all switch to those little Lime scooters. More likely, Connecticut will be gridlocked several hours a day, with more traffic diverting onto Reno Rd, Porter St., etc. trying to find a way to or from downtown. Nice.

Poor Upper NW and MD drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

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Anonymous wrote:
The streets are actually quite safe. You're *far* more likely to be murdered in D.C. than be killed in a traffic accident.

A total lie

It is true that more people were murdered in DC last year (227) https://dcwitness.org/data-shows-more-homicides-occurred-in-2021-than-previous-years/ than killed in traffic accidents (40) https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/traffic-fatalities. However, there are certain situations that put people at significantly higher risk for dying in either of these ways, and some of the risk factors for homicide are probably easier for the average DCUM reader to avoid than the risk factors for traffic crashes.

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Anonymous wrote:$9.4 million to buy 170 new speed cameras, despite D.C. already having the largest police force on a per capita basis in the county.

What if we had all the cops....enforce traffic laws?

And as every Maryland and Virginia driver now knows, they can safely throw those camera tickets in the trash without fear of penalty. They're completely toothless when it comes to MD and VA drivers. But sure, let's add 9.4 million to the tens of millions of dollars that already have gone unpaid.

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Anonymous wrote:From her 2023 budget proposal:

$1.3 million to hire 11 people to keep bike lanes free of snow.

What do they do on the other 360 days in the year when it doesn't snow?

Tell me you don't understand how budgets work without saying you don't know how budgets work.

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Anonymous wrote:$9.4 million to buy 170 new speed cameras, despite D.C. already having the largest police force on a per capita basis in the county.

What if we had all the cops....enforce traffic laws?

Cops are some of the worst transgressors. And not because they are heroically saving the day.

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Anonymous wrote:DC is putting in bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, one in each direction. While this may seem like an attractive idea, the rush hour carrying capacity of Conn. Ave. will be cut from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes. DC just assumes that the traffic will just go away, or maybe MD commuters will all switch to those little Lime scooters. More likely, Connecticut will be gridlocked several hours a day, with more traffic diverting onto Reno Rd, Porter St., etc. trying to find a way to or from downtown. Nice.

Poor Upper NW and MD drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Actually, some of those folks will simply work from home, keeping their business in the burbs and away from the local downtown businesses.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is putting in bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, one in each direction. While this may seem like an attractive idea, the rush hour carrying capacity of Conn. Ave. will be cut from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes. DC just assumes that the traffic will just go away, or maybe MD commuters will all switch to those little Lime scooters. More likely, Connecticut will be gridlocked several hours a day, with more traffic diverting onto Reno Rd, Porter St., etc. trying to find a way to or from downtown. Nice.

Poor Upper NW and MD drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Actually, some of those folks will simply work from home, keeping their business in the burbs and away from the local downtown businesses.

Ok. I'm alright with reshaping downtown DC to be less of a playground for people who want to run me over to get to a Starbucks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From her 2023 budget proposal:

$1.3 million to hire 11 people to keep bike lanes free of snow.

What do they do on the other 360 days in the year when it doesn't snow?

Tell me you don't understand how budgets work without saying you don't know how budgets work.

Please explain to us how spending $1.3 million to keep bike lanes free of snow in a city where it barely snows is a good idea...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is putting in bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, one in each direction. While this may seem like an attractive idea, the rush hour carrying capacity of Conn. Ave. will be cut from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes. DC just assumes that the traffic will just go away, or maybe MD commuters will all switch to those little Lime scooters. More likely, Connecticut will be gridlocked several hours a day, with more traffic diverting onto Reno Rd, Porter St., etc. trying to find a way to or from downtown. Nice.

Poor Upper NW and MD drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

Actually, some of those folks will simply work from home, keeping their business in the burbs and away from the local downtown businesses.

Ok. I'm alright with reshaping downtown DC to be less of a playground for people who want to run me over to get to a Starbucks.

Chalk another up for the economically illiterate

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The cost per use of D.C.'s bike infrastructure must be astronomical.

The city must have spent many hundreds of millions of dollars on bike lanes, capital bikeshare, etc. How many people regularly ride in the city? 500? 1000?

It would be cheaper for the city to pay each of those people $10,000 to ride the bus (and paying them is probably the only way they'd agree to ride the bus).

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Anonymous wrote:Ridership on Capital Bikeshare has cratered since it was introduced. But that's not stopping Bowser.

She wants to spend $15 million expanding Capital Bikeshare so that every resident lives within a quarter mile of a Capital Bikeshare station they will never use.

The number of people using Capital Bikeshare was dropping like a rock even before the pandemic. Wonder what it is now.

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Anonymous wrote:The cost per use of D.C.'s bike infrastructure must be astronomical.

The city must have spent many hundreds of millions of dollars on bike lanes, capital bikeshare, etc. How many people regularly ride in the city? 500? 1000?

It would be cheaper for the city to pay each of those people $10,000 to ride the bus (and paying them is probably the only way they'd agree to ride the bus).

It's much easier to get voters to STFU by making bike lanes. People don't like safety measures that slow down traffic so instead you get bike lanes where only people with DUIs or biker cultists who don't value their own personal safety.

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What is the bike obsession with Bowser and Alexandria Mayor Justin? Most people don't want to bike to work. The end. Why do voters keep supporting these fantasies and electing idiots?

And even if the MPD got those millions of dollars, the corruption would swallow it whole and no citizens would benefit. DC is a cesspool