Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

One of the incumbent ANC commissioners knocked on my door last week. I told them how idiotic the proposal was. It was, awkward…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

DP. It’s going to be fun watching you all cry when the capital funds disappear from the budget.

Except the proposal directly aligns with the Biden infrastructure priorities. So, not likely.

Spare us the “priorities” of the guy who has flown private to Delaware 55 times in less than two years. Outpacing all previous presidents. What a climate champion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

DP. It’s going to be fun watching you all cry when the capital funds disappear from the budget.

Except the proposal directly aligns with the Biden infrastructure priorities. So, not likely.

Spare us the “priorities” of the guy who has flown private to Delaware 55 times in less than two years. Outpacing all previous presidents. What a climate champion.

Nice try. This proposal is not a policy of the Biden Administration.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

Nope. That is not how responsibility works. The buck stops with those individuals that agreed to the plan. Those individuals that chose to ignore the criticisms. Thise individuals that chose to do this. ANC commissioners are not politicians. They are not and have never been policy makers. Yet on this they decided to be that.

Nope. It’s a democracy. You have a voice equal to every other person at an ANC mtg. Did you show up? No? Your responsibility as a citizen to show up. Do you even vote?

And “no, we have lives so we let other people make decisions for us because they must not have lives?” But then we will blame the people who didn’t read our minds for making decisions without us. We were too busy.

Sorry. Guess you’ll pay more attention next time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

People have lives. Also, the D.C. government tries to sneak things like this by the public because they know people will hate it and kill it. You're dreaming if you think this project is actually going to happen.

"People have lives." You are completely off your rocker. Many ANC reps hold down busy jobs and have families and yet still find time to not only participate in the meetings but organize and lead them. The "D.C. government" held multiple virtual public meetings to present their plans and receive feedback from the community. The plans have been revised on account of that feedback. The local community not only likes this plan, but has endorsed it. Please get over it and stop insulting the rest of us by posting such bovine excreta.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

Nope. That is not how responsibility works. The buck stops with those individuals that agreed to the plan. Those individuals that chose to ignore the criticisms. Thise individuals that chose to do this. ANC commissioners are not politicians. They are not and have never been policy makers. Yet on this they decided to be that.

Nope. It’s a democracy. You have a voice equal to every other person at an ANC mtg. Did you show up? No? Your responsibility as a citizen to show up. Do you even vote?

And “no, we have lives so we let other people make decisions for us because they must not have lives?” But then we will blame the people who didn’t read our minds for making decisions without us. We were too busy.

Sorry. Guess you’ll pay more attention next time.

Nobody we know went to the “Connecticut Avenue NW Reversible Lane Safety and Operations Study” meetings. Why would they, everyone agreed they were bad and glad they were gone. I think more people would have showed up to the “Create a Traffic Nightmare on Connecticut Ave Meetings.” My ANC had its first meeting on the “Reversible Lane Study” on February 24, 2021 when my kids had been out of school for nearly one year and weeks after 1/6. Like many families with young kids we were barely keeping it together and dealing with multiple mental health issues. This was no time to be making major regional transportation decisions. Many of us are angry and feel as if this plan was rammed through by the young, childless, and abled. There may have been 50 meetings total, but each ANC only had a few, so it was easy to miss if you weren’t paying attention.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

People have lives. Also, the D.C. government tries to sneak things like this by the public because they know people will hate it and kill it. You're dreaming if you think this project is actually going to happen.

"People have lives." You are completely off your rocker. Many ANC reps hold down busy jobs and have families and yet still find time to not only participate in the meetings but organize and lead them. The "D.C. government" held multiple virtual public meetings to present their plans and receive feedback from the community. The plans have been revised on account of that feedback. The local community not only likes this plan, but has endorsed it. Please get over it and stop insulting the rest of us by posting such bovine excreta.

“Many” ANC reps do not have families. Only a handful do. One of seven members of my ANC actually have kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

DP. It’s going to be fun watching you all cry when the capital funds disappear from the budget.

Except the proposal directly aligns with the Biden infrastructure priorities. So, not likely.

No it doesn't. There is nothing in Biden's infrastructure plans about removing traffic lanes and intentionally incresing congestion and traffic in order to force people to use bicycles.

That is not what this plan does, but you can keep mischaracterizing it to your heat's content. It doesn't make you look very smart, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

DP. It’s going to be fun watching you all cry when the capital funds disappear from the budget.

Except the proposal directly aligns with the Biden infrastructure priorities. So, not likely.

Spare us the “priorities” of the guy who has flown private to Delaware 55 times in less than two years. Outpacing all previous presidents. What a climate champion.

That is the US Secret Service's call, not Biden's. I am sure you were OUTRAGED at all of Trump's trips to golf courses multiple times per week during his presidency, including day trips to Bedminster and the so-called Winter white house in florida.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

People have lives. Also, the D.C. government tries to sneak things like this by the public because they know people will hate it and kill it. You're dreaming if you think this project is actually going to happen.

1) this took place before and during COVID, including an ad nauseum number of video based meetings.
2) The meetings were sponsored by DDOT, by neighborhood associations and the ANCs.
3) Every meeting was open to the public
4) Every meeting was announced on social media, on neighborhood email groups, by the sponsoring ANCs or Neighborhood Associations, by the Councilmembers office and by the Mayor's office
5) The program was even debated highly in another 100+ page thread in this forum.
6) The program was announced and debated on several of the neighborhood email groups
7) Since the meetings were on video based platforms, the attendance was far greater than it would have been under "in person" conditions.
8) You really had to either be living under a rock, or never pay any attention to community activities to be in the dark on this. No one was trying to hide it. No was was 'sneaking" anything through.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

Nope. That is not how responsibility works. The buck stops with those individuals that agreed to the plan. Those individuals that chose to ignore the criticisms. Thise individuals that chose to do this. ANC commissioners are not politicians. They are not and have never been policy makers. Yet on this they decided to be that.

Nope. It’s a democracy. You have a voice equal to every other person at an ANC mtg. Did you show up? No? Your responsibility as a citizen to show up. Do you even vote?

And “no, we have lives so we let other people make decisions for us because they must not have lives?” But then we will blame the people who didn’t read our minds for making decisions without us. We were too busy.

Sorry. Guess you’ll pay more attention next time.

Nobody we know went to the “Connecticut Avenue NW Reversible Lane Safety and Operations Study” meetings. Why would they, everyone agreed they were bad and glad they were gone. I think more people would have showed up to the “Create a Traffic Nightmare on Connecticut Ave Meetings.” My ANC had its first meeting on the “Reversible Lane Study” on February 24, 2021 when my kids had been out of school for nearly one year and weeks after 1/6. Like many families with young kids we were barely keeping it together and dealing with multiple mental health issues. This was no time to be making major regional transportation decisions. Many of us are angry and feel as if this plan was rammed through by the young, childless, and abled. There may have been 50 meetings total, but each ANC only had a few, so it was easy to miss if you weren’t paying attention.

So you didn’t show for a meeting because you agreed with what you perceived to be the objective: getting of the reversible lanes. Great. Then you didn’t show for a meeting about a different proposal. But, but, you really cared about that one! Whose responsibility is it to know which ones you care about? Yours!

And yes, at the time, I had kids in ES who had not been in their school for almost a full year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

Nope. That is not how responsibility works. The buck stops with those individuals that agreed to the plan. Those individuals that chose to ignore the criticisms. Thise individuals that chose to do this. ANC commissioners are not politicians. They are not and have never been policy makers. Yet on this they decided to be that.

Nope. It’s a democracy. You have a voice equal to every other person at an ANC mtg. Did you show up? No? Your responsibility as a citizen to show up. Do you even vote?

And “no, we have lives so we let other people make decisions for us because they must not have lives?” But then we will blame the people who didn’t read our minds for making decisions without us. We were too busy.

Sorry. Guess you’ll pay more attention next time.

Nobody we know went to the “Connecticut Avenue NW Reversible Lane Safety and Operations Study” meetings. Why would they, everyone agreed they were bad and glad they were gone. I think more people would have showed up to the “Create a Traffic Nightmare on Connecticut Ave Meetings.” My ANC had its first meeting on the “Reversible Lane Study” on February 24, 2021 when my kids had been out of school for nearly one year and weeks after 1/6. Like many families with young kids we were barely keeping it together and dealing with multiple mental health issues. This was no time to be making major regional transportation decisions. Many of us are angry and feel as if this plan was rammed through by the young, childless, and abled. There may have been 50 meetings total, but each ANC only had a few, so it was easy to miss if you weren’t paying attention.

I'm not young or childless and found that the pandemic made it much easier to attend and participate in ANC and other public meetings.

Also, has it occurred to you that maybe if you have participated, you would understand the plan better and that if you did understand the plan, you might realize that it's not the bogeyman you seem to think it is? Ward 3 NIMBYs have perfected the art of trying to foment opposition to projects based on half-truths, fabrications, and outright lies. Sometimes this happens deliberately, but often it's because they just never bothered to educate themselves before opening their mouths in the first place and are then to damn conceited to acknowledge their misrepresentations once they learn more.

Dozens of pages before, someone who clearly does understand the plan explained very patiently why the combined changes will improve vehicle flow along CT Ave. and not result in significant spillovers of traffic to side streets. Please go back and read that. With an open mind.

[Anonymous]

Please tell me the city will incentivise workers (at the the businesses along CA) to take bike or bus to work? That would make a big difference in availability of parking for shoppers/diners.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

Nope. That is not how responsibility works. The buck stops with those individuals that agreed to the plan. Those individuals that chose to ignore the criticisms. Thise individuals that chose to do this. ANC commissioners are not politicians. They are not and have never been policy makers. Yet on this they decided to be that.

Nope. It’s a democracy. You have a voice equal to every other person at an ANC mtg. Did you show up? No? Your responsibility as a citizen to show up. Do you even vote?

And “no, we have lives so we let other people make decisions for us because they must not have lives?” But then we will blame the people who didn’t read our minds for making decisions without us. We were too busy.

Sorry. Guess you’ll pay more attention next time.

Nobody we know went to the “Connecticut Avenue NW Reversible Lane Safety and Operations Study” meetings. Why would they, everyone agreed they were bad and glad they were gone. I think more people would have showed up to the “Create a Traffic Nightmare on Connecticut Ave Meetings.” My ANC had its first meeting on the “Reversible Lane Study” on February 24, 2021 when my kids had been out of school for nearly one year and weeks after 1/6. Like many families with young kids we were barely keeping it together and dealing with multiple mental health issues. This was no time to be making major regional transportation decisions. Many of us are angry and feel as if this plan was rammed through by the young, childless, and abled. There may have been 50 meetings total, but each ANC only had a few, so it was easy to miss if you weren’t paying attention.

I'm not young or childless and found that the pandemic made it much easier to attend and participate in ANC and other public meetings.

Also, has it occurred to you that maybe if you have participated, you would understand the plan better and that if you did understand the plan, you might realize that it's not the bogeyman you seem to think it is? Ward 3 NIMBYs have perfected the art of trying to foment opposition to projects based on half-truths, fabrications, and outright lies. Sometimes this happens deliberately, but often it's because they just never bothered to educate themselves before opening their mouths in the first place and are then to damn conceited to acknowledge their misrepresentations once they learn more.

Dozens of pages before, someone who clearly does understand the plan explained very patiently why the combined changes will improve vehicle flow along CT Ave. and not result in significant spillovers of traffic to side streets. Please go back and read that. With an open mind.

After working all day and while simultaneously homeschooling your kids you found time to hop on an ANC Zoom call? This is completely not plausible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At the ANC 3/4G candidate forum, the commissioners describe the bike lanes as a done deal. There wasn't a lot of room for the candidates to distinguish themselves on this issue, and in fact, none of them came out abjectly against them.

Two of the candidates were painfully non-committal, retreating to the 'we need to improve engagement' argument.

So they were embarrassed that this was caught out before they broke ground and think it's just a pr problem.

Let us all remember the names of the people responsible for our impending traffic nightmare. DDOT came up with the plan but those ANC commissioners are the ones that own it.

You are missing the point. The decision has been made. The bike lanes are going in. There are no options for reversing the decision.

If you want to hold anyone accountable, it is the Mayor. So if you want to vote against her, she will only get 80% of the vote instead of 81%.

Nope. I blame the ANC commissioners in our neighborhood. It is they who deserve our ire. It is they who should have known better. It is they who need to accept that their own responsibility will last and that people will not forget.

Actually, you are responsible. You and anyone else who failed to keep up with local community development initiatives. Failed to attend meetings and voice your concerns. Failed to answer surveys. If all these folks on these 120 pages had gotten off their couches and participated in democracy, this may have turned out differently. Go ahead and complain but don’t say you never had your chance. You blew it. It’s on you.

Nope. That is not how responsibility works. The buck stops with those individuals that agreed to the plan. Those individuals that chose to ignore the criticisms. Thise individuals that chose to do this. ANC commissioners are not politicians. They are not and have never been policy makers. Yet on this they decided to be that.

Nope. It’s a democracy. You have a voice equal to every other person at an ANC mtg. Did you show up? No? Your responsibility as a citizen to show up. Do you even vote?

And “no, we have lives so we let other people make decisions for us because they must not have lives?” But then we will blame the people who didn’t read our minds for making decisions without us. We were too busy.

Sorry. Guess you’ll pay more attention next time.

Nobody we know went to the “Connecticut Avenue NW Reversible Lane Safety and Operations Study” meetings. Why would they, everyone agreed they were bad and glad they were gone. I think more people would have showed up to the “Create a Traffic Nightmare on Connecticut Ave Meetings.” My ANC had its first meeting on the “Reversible Lane Study” on February 24, 2021 when my kids had been out of school for nearly one year and weeks after 1/6. Like many families with young kids we were barely keeping it together and dealing with multiple mental health issues. This was no time to be making major regional transportation decisions. Many of us are angry and feel as if this plan was rammed through by the young, childless, and abled. There may have been 50 meetings total, but each ANC only had a few, so it was easy to miss if you weren’t paying attention.

I'm not young or childless and found that the pandemic made it much easier to attend and participate in ANC and other public meetings.

Also, has it occurred to you that maybe if you have participated, you would understand the plan better and that if you did understand the plan, you might realize that it's not the bogeyman you seem to think it is? Ward 3 NIMBYs have perfected the art of trying to foment opposition to projects based on half-truths, fabrications, and outright lies. Sometimes this happens deliberately, but often it's because they just never bothered to educate themselves before opening their mouths in the first place and are then to damn conceited to acknowledge their misrepresentations once they learn more.

Dozens of pages before, someone who clearly does understand the plan explained very patiently why the combined changes will improve vehicle flow along CT Ave. and not result in significant spillovers of traffic to side streets. Please go back and read that. With an open mind.

After working all day and while simultaneously homeschooling your kids you found time to hop on an ANC Zoom call? This is completely not plausible.

DP, but I'm in a similar boat and I've been able to make it to many more meetings like ANC meetings or presentations. I'm usually double tasking, getting dinner going or kids through homework while listening and participating when I can. Why is that so hard to believe?

It's a lot easier than justifying stepping out of the house for an in-person meeting.