Give your top 3 suggestions to make DC world's best capital city

[Anonymous]

clean the river and make it swimmable. add a beach

no outdoor weed smoking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not possible to make it the world's best. DC is a center of government and bureaucracy. It is not a center of business, culture, or the arts. DC will never compete with cities like Paris, London, Tokyo, etc. I mean, come on, how could it better somewhere like Tokyo? That's not a dig on DC, it's just reality.

That said, to make DC truly better, it needs a growing private, private sector, more eclectic architecture and urban design, and a focus on improving safety and education (including better higher education institutions).

Are you kidding me? DC has some of the best culture and arts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dc is gorgeous. I’d do a few things:

— plant even more trees to increase shade in less well off areas. Eliminate concrete jungle feeling downtown… will also help freshen the air.
— I’m all for more security on metro and on buses. Teens at school dismissal can be extremely rough and fights break out. They made a huge mistake redoing the bus lines in my opinion. There are fewer, less convenient stops and more infrequent service. And if money was no object— make buses free.
— no camping/sleeping in or near libraries and playgrounds. Have a shuttle that bounces people to homeless shelters, and regularly picks homeless off the street.
- spray for mosquitos!
- rat abatement
- crack down on slumlords/abandoned property
-eliminate food trucks at the national mall

What's wrong with food trucks at the National Mall? Do they attract pests because tourists/patrons don't clean up after themselves? Is it another issue? We don't really use the food trucks other than an occasional ice cream treat, but I am not bothered by them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible and if it is, if you had executive power, how would you achieve it?

Make half of the population stop being elitist snobs; make the other half of the populations stop mocking the elitist snobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dc is gorgeous. I’d do a few things:

— plant even more trees to increase shade in less well off areas. Eliminate concrete jungle feeling downtown… will also help freshen the air.
— I’m all for more security on metro and on buses. Teens at school dismissal can be extremely rough and fights break out. They made a huge mistake redoing the bus lines in my opinion. There are fewer, less convenient stops and more infrequent service. And if money was no object— make buses free.
— no camping/sleeping in or near libraries and playgrounds. Have a shuttle that bounces people to homeless shelters, and regularly picks homeless off the street.
- spray for mosquitos!
- rat abatement
- crack down on slumlords/abandoned property
-eliminate food trucks at the national mall

What's wrong with food trucks at the National Mall? Do they attract pests because tourists/patrons don't clean up after themselves? Is it another issue? We don't really use the food trucks other than an occasional ice cream treat, but I am not bothered by them.

Food trucks are illegal at the mall. The ones that sell undrinkable bubble tea and chemical ice cream for $15 without posting their prices because tourists don't think to ask before handing over their credit card make a few sales and then jet to a new location on the mall before police come. We saw one driver get patted down and taken away in handcuffs once. There should be a system for licensing proper vendors who have to display their prices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Get rid of Trump.
2. Get rid of Stephen Miller.
I'm not sure about number three.

Home rule.

Dumbest idea ever.

Says the slave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible and if it is, if you had executive power, how would you achieve it?

Make half of the population stop being elitist snobs; make the other half of the populations stop mocking the elitist snobs.

You are completely out of touch.

[Anonymous]

Free healthcare
Free metro
Free childcare
Free college
No taxes
Free weed
Free housing
Defund the police
No arrests for anything
Abortions for everyone
Abortions for nobody

[Anonymous]

UBI
Reparations
Defund the police to afford the above


Pretty easy.

[Anonymous]

1) do something about rampant violent crime

2) stop lying to us with fake crime statistics to cover up rampant violent crime, and

3) I know DC’s dysfunctional local government will do NOTHING about rampant violent crime decade after decade, so thank you, President Trump, for caring about the quality of life for the 99% of D.C. residents who are not violent repeat offenders.

[Anonymous]

We’re a company town. Even the cultural options are government-adjacent. The roadway systems, metro maps, and security zones in place functionally cut off the poorest areas, and those areas a food- and basic-services deserts. Without statehood/funding not dependent on the whims of Congress, there are limited options to do better. This is not a world-class city of interest. DC is actually lovely in NW, but you’ve all swallowed the narrative that it’s a hellhole and out of control because of an incompetent administration.

That being said, I would eliminate charter schools. Because we created a system where the wealthy and already educated can game the system for access to schools that do not have to handle all the kids and can kick kids out/not provide necessary services, the schools that are left are hamstrung by having to handle all the most troubled/poorests/least-resourced kids without the commensurate resources to do so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:clean the river and make it swimmable. add a beach

no outdoor weed smoking

We, as a community, are actually pouring millions of dollars into making the river swimmable. It's a lot closer to happening now than it once was.
https://www.dcwater.com/cleanrivers

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Free healthcare
Free metro
Free childcare
Free college
No taxes
Free weed
Free housing
Defund the police
No arrests for anything
Abortions for everyone
Abortions for nobody

You need to head to a communist country for all of this. Many of these items were free in Eastern Europe under communism.

[Anonymous]

More efficient metro
Clean accessible restrooms at parks and metro
More murals around town, not political

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Free healthcare
Free metro
Free childcare
Free college
No taxes
Free weed
Free housing
Defund the police
No arrests for anything
Abortions for everyone
Abortions for nobody

You need to head to a communist country for all of this. Many of these items were free in Eastern Europe under communism.

My in-laws lived under the slavery known as communism behind the Iron Curtain. Hard pass.

Move to North Korea if you are dumb enough to still believe in communism/ Marxism.