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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leaders must move decisively and quickly to seize city streets and convert them to bike lanes for public safety / the environment.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

Ha. More bike lanes that no one uses? It is pathetic how few people use the bike lanes we already have.

You're responding to a troll. City leaders don't have to "seize" city streets, and you don't convert streets to bike lanes.

It's true that now would be a good time to shift to the kind of complete streets DC should have after the pandemic is over - the kind of streets that everyone feels safe and comfortable using - but unfortunately the DC leadership does not seem to have any interest in that.

[Anonymous]

How do you expect the post office trucks the FedEx trucks the UPS trucks the Amazon all types of vehicles and GrubHub to get to you if they can't access your address?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you expect the post office trucks the FedEx trucks the UPS trucks the Amazon all types of vehicles and GrubHub to get to you if they can't access your address?

I don't think that anybody has banned delivery vehicles from the streets.

Do you drive a delivery vehicle? Are you concerned about your ability to make your deliveries?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars. Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers.
Promote social distancing.

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you expect the post office trucks the FedEx trucks the UPS trucks the Amazon all types of vehicles and GrubHub to get to you if they can't access your address?

I don't think that anybody has banned delivery vehicles from the streets.

Do you drive a delivery vehicle? Are you concerned about your ability to make your deliveries?

Except that those ridiculous parents in AU park did completely block off entire city blocks with cones and someone keeps coming on here defending that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loved the WaPo photo of neighbors’ self-help signs posted on DC streets stating “No Through Traffic - Pedestrian Zone During Coronavirus Emergency.”

I drove through AU Park yesterday afternoon and residents had places cones at multiple four-way intersections to prevent traffic from going through so kids could play all over the streets--all together. What entitlement! And tell me, what is the difference between little kids playing together in the street and opening playing fields for older kids to practice on.

That's great!

As for you, PP - go around. Road space is for everyone, not just drivers.

Why do you feel entitled to drive however fast you want through a neighborhood where you don’t even live?!?! The self absorption is truly breathtaking. Go the F around or even better, get your lazy a$$ out of your car and WALK or BIKE wherever it is that you so urgently need to go!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Loved the WaPo photo of neighbors’ self-help signs posted on DC streets stating “No Through Traffic - Pedestrian Zone During Coronavirus Emergency.”

I drove through AU Park yesterday afternoon and residents had places cones at multiple four-way intersections to prevent traffic from going through so kids could play all over the streets--all together. What entitlement! And tell me, what is the difference between little kids playing together in the street and opening playing fields for older kids to practice on.

Entitlement ?! And what about your clear sense of entitled to cut through the neighborhood? Between kids and some bloke looking for a short cut between main roads, I vote for safe play for the kids?

It's a public street, built for cars, residents do not own it. Yes, entitlement. As a drive, I had a legal right to be driving on that street (and by the way, I was driving in the neighborhood because I live there dummy--just hate some of my neighbors).

And the kids also have a right to ride their bikes there safely, no? I hope that you are an essential employee or we’re going out to get food or medicine and not ones of those jerks just driving around now out of boredom.

I guarantee that PP is a huge jerk who was probably driving to Rodman’s to restock on booze. And she’s apoplectic with rage that she had to take a 10 second detour around some playing children because in her mind, everyone else should just get the h*ll out of her way wherever she wants to drive her Escalade. Go jump off a bridge, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you expect the post office trucks the FedEx trucks the UPS trucks the Amazon all types of vehicles and GrubHub to get to you if they can't access your address?

I don't think that anybody has banned delivery vehicles from the streets.

Do you drive a delivery vehicle? Are you concerned about your ability to make your deliveries?

Except that those ridiculous parents in AU park did completely block off entire city blocks with cones and someone keeps coming on here defending that.

That's silly, PP. You can't completely block off a whole block with a few traffic cones. Plus traffic cones are easy to move when a delivery vehicle comes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars. Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers.
Promote social distancing.

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks

Everybody agrees, including people who ride bikes. (With an exception for children biking on the sidewalk.) All the more reason to make it safe and comfortable for people to bike on the street. People who bike tend to be the foremost advocates of making streets safe and comfortable to bike on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars. Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers.
Promote social distancing.

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks

Everybody agrees, including people who ride bikes. (With an exception for children biking on the sidewalk.) All the more reason to make it safe and comfortable for people to bike on the street. People who bike tend to be the foremost advocates of making streets safe and comfortable to bike on.

Uh, I’m a cyclist and I definitely DO NOT agree with that. I ride sidewalks because many streets aren’t safe. No bike lane? I’m riding on the sidewalk, I don’t care what other cyclists say.

You go ahead and challenge traffic and be an activist-cyclist. I’m gonna stay alive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars. Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers.
Promote social distancing.

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks

Everybody agrees, including people who ride bikes. (With an exception for children biking on the sidewalk.) All the more reason to make it safe and comfortable for people to bike on the street. People who bike tend to be the foremost advocates of making streets safe and comfortable to bike on.

Uh, I’m a cyclist and I definitely DO NOT agree with that. I ride sidewalks because many streets aren’t safe. No bike lane? I’m riding on the sidewalk, I don’t care what other cyclists say.

You go ahead and challenge traffic and be an activist-cyclist. I’m gonna stay alive.

Re-read the statement you're disagreeing with, please - because you're actually agreeing with it.

You're not riding on the sidewalk by choice. You're riding on the sidewalk because the road isn't safe to bike on. The solution is to make the roads safe to bike on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars. Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers.
Promote social distancing.

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks

Everybody agrees, including people who ride bikes. (With an exception for children biking on the sidewalk.) All the more reason to make it safe and comfortable for people to bike on the street. People who bike tend to be the foremost advocates of making streets safe and comfortable to bike on.

Uh, I’m a cyclist and I definitely DO NOT agree with that. I ride sidewalks because many streets aren’t safe. No bike lane? I’m riding on the sidewalk, I don’t care what other cyclists say.

You go ahead and challenge traffic and be an activist-cyclist. I’m gonna stay alive.

Re-read the statement you're disagreeing with, please - because you're actually agreeing with it.

You're not riding on the sidewalk by choice. You're riding on the sidewalk because the road isn't safe to bike on. The solution is to make the roads safe to bike on.

This is like saying boxing or football should be made safe. They will never be safe.

Neither will riding a bicycle in Washington D.C. Bicyclists seem to have an amazing false sense of security. If you're a bicyclist in DC, you're probably more likely to die being hit by a car than any other cause of death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars. Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers.
Promote social distancing.

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks

Everybody agrees, including people who ride bikes. (With an exception for children biking on the sidewalk.) All the more reason to make it safe and comfortable for people to bike on the street. People who bike tend to be the foremost advocates of making streets safe and comfortable to bike on.

Uh, I’m a cyclist and I definitely DO NOT agree with that. I ride sidewalks because many streets aren’t safe. No bike lane? I’m riding on the sidewalk, I don’t care what other cyclists say.

You go ahead and challenge traffic and be an activist-cyclist. I’m gonna stay alive.

Re-read the statement you're disagreeing with, please - because you're actually agreeing with it.

You're not riding on the sidewalk by choice. You're riding on the sidewalk because the road isn't safe to bike on. The solution is to make the roads safe to bike on.

This is like saying boxing or football should be made safe. They will never be safe.

Neither will riding a bicycle in Washington D.C. Bicyclists seem to have an amazing false sense of security. If you're a bicyclist in DC, you're probably more likely to die being hit by a car than any other cause of death.

What are you, the ghost of John Forester? Of course it's possible to make roads safe to bike on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When everyone’s working from home, there are too many people on city sidewalks to achieve proper 6 foot spacing.

We need to dedicate streets to walkers and bikers, and close them to cars. Traffic is way down already.

Bowser and the DC council could do this right now.

Dedicate some streets to walkers, runners, and bikers.
Promote social distancing.

Bikes don't belong on sidewalks

Everybody agrees, including people who ride bikes. (With an exception for children biking on the sidewalk.) All the more reason to make it safe and comfortable for people to bike on the street. People who bike tend to be the foremost advocates of making streets safe and comfortable to bike on.

Uh, I’m a cyclist and I definitely DO NOT agree with that. I ride sidewalks because many streets aren’t safe. No bike lane? I’m riding on the sidewalk, I don’t care what other cyclists say.

You go ahead and challenge traffic and be an activist-cyclist. I’m gonna stay alive.

Re-read the statement you're disagreeing with, please - because you're actually agreeing with it.

You're not riding on the sidewalk by choice. You're riding on the sidewalk because the road isn't safe to bike on. The solution is to make the roads safe to bike on.

This is like saying boxing or football should be made safe. They will never be safe.

Neither will riding a bicycle in Washington D.C. Bicyclists seem to have an amazing false sense of security. If you're a bicyclist in DC, you're probably more likely to die being hit by a car than any other cause of death.

What are you, the ghost of John Forester? Of course it's possible to make roads safe to bike on.

See? Bicyclists are willfully blind to the risks they are running. I find it amazing people put their children on bikes and ride through the city. So incredibly dangerous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

See? Bicyclists are willfully blind to the risks they are running. I find it amazing people put their children on bikes and ride through the city. So incredibly dangerous.

If you think it's so dangerous, then you must be extra supportive of designing transportation infrastructure that is safe not just for adults on bicycles, but also for children on bicycles. I couldn't agree with you more.