‘Slow Streets’ is stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC should tread lightly on commuter tax bs. Being completely surrounded by MD and VA, I wonder if all of the trucks heading into the city to restock etc. driving on MD and VA roads should be considered for a "tax". DC residents don't pay MD and VA for clogging the roads with supplies for the city.

Be careful what you wish for and especially now with telework from home becoming more and more common.

DC should be thankful it was chosen for the site of the Federal Government, otherwise it really offers nothing to anyone.

You got it backwards, it is really VA and MD that should be thankful for DC. Most of VA and MD would be backward hinterlands without the federal capital sandwiched between them. Placing DC here is the biggest government handout ever to a couple states that really don't have much else going for them.

Ha, this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How can you compare the location of Alexandria to the location of Cumberland? You have lost this argument.

Cumberland used to be the second largest city in Maryland. The National Road, the C&O Canal, the B&O Railroad, lots of factories...

Not that this is relevant to the DC Slow Streets program.

Absolutely. And the fact that Cumberland became such despite being in the mountains suggests Alexandria / Georgetown would have become a much bigger city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How can you compare the location of Alexandria to the location of Cumberland? You have lost this argument.

Cumberland used to be the second largest city in Maryland. The National Road, the C&O Canal, the B&O Railroad, lots of factories...

Not that this is relevant to the DC Slow Streets program.

Absolutely. And the fact that Cumberland became such despite being in the mountains suggests Alexandria / Georgetown would have become a much bigger city.

Honestly who cares what Alexandria could have been you weird Southern troll?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How can you compare the location of Alexandria to the location of Cumberland? You have lost this argument.

Cumberland used to be the second largest city in Maryland. The National Road, the C&O Canal, the B&O Railroad, lots of factories...

Not that this is relevant to the DC Slow Streets program.

Absolutely. And the fact that Cumberland became such despite being in the mountains suggests Alexandria / Georgetown would have become a much bigger city.

Honestly who cares what Alexandria could have been you weird Southern troll?

Why so triggered?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How can you compare the location of Alexandria to the location of Cumberland? You have lost this argument.

Cumberland used to be the second largest city in Maryland. The National Road, the C&O Canal, the B&O Railroad, lots of factories...

Not that this is relevant to the DC Slow Streets program.

Absolutely. And the fact that Cumberland became such despite being in the mountains suggests Alexandria / Georgetown would have become a much bigger city.

Alternatively, Cumberland became such BECAUSE OF being in the mountains. There aren't so many favorable places for east-west travel through the Appalachians, whereas there were lots of little river port towns in Virginia and Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Slow streets seems like a poor substitute for things that already exist.

If you actually want drivers to slow down, put in speed bumps.

If you want space to do leisure activity, who chooses the middle of the street — where some stoned out of his mind driver might run you down — over parks, yards and sidewalks? No one.

Slow streets is a solution in search of a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Slow streets seems like a poor substitute for things that already exist.

If you actually want drivers to slow down, put in speed bumps.

If you want space to do leisure activity, who chooses the middle of the street — where some stoned out of his mind driver might run you down — over parks, yards and sidewalks? No one.

Slow streets is a solution in search of a problem.

Lots of people, actually, in places where you don't have to worry that a stoned-out-of-his-mind driver will run you down. Of course, stoned-out-of-their-mind drivers also run down people who are in parks, yards, and sidewalks, which strongly suggests that it's drivers who are the danger, not streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slow streets seems like a poor substitute for things that already exist.

If you actually want drivers to slow down, put in speed bumps.

If you want space to do leisure activity, who chooses the middle of the street — where some stoned out of his mind driver might run you down — over parks, yards and sidewalks? No one.

Slow streets is a solution in search of a problem.

Lots of people, actually, in places where you don't have to worry that a stoned-out-of-his-mind driver will run you down. Of course, stoned-out-of-their-mind drivers also run down people who are in parks, yards, and sidewalks, which strongly suggests that it's drivers who are the danger, not streets.

I’ve never seen anyone use a slow street for anything other than driving and parking. It’s pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slow streets seems like a poor substitute for things that already exist.

If you actually want drivers to slow down, put in speed bumps.

If you want space to do leisure activity, who chooses the middle of the street — where some stoned out of his mind driver might run you down — over parks, yards and sidewalks? No one.

Slow streets is a solution in search of a problem.

Lots of people, actually, in places where you don't have to worry that a stoned-out-of-his-mind driver will run you down. Of course, stoned-out-of-their-mind drivers also run down people who are in parks, yards, and sidewalks, which strongly suggests that it's drivers who are the danger, not streets.

I’ve never seen anyone use a slow street for anything other than driving and parking. It’s pointless.

Cue Hollywood big voice guy: “So said the arbiter of all things...(thunder rolls)”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slow streets seems like a poor substitute for things that already exist.

If you actually want drivers to slow down, put in speed bumps.

If you want space to do leisure activity, who chooses the middle of the street — where some stoned out of his mind driver might run you down — over parks, yards and sidewalks? No one.

Slow streets is a solution in search of a problem.

Lots of people, actually, in places where you don't have to worry that a stoned-out-of-his-mind driver will run you down. Of course, stoned-out-of-their-mind drivers also run down people who are in parks, yards, and sidewalks, which strongly suggests that it's drivers who are the danger, not streets.

I’ve never seen anyone use a slow street for anything other than driving and parking. It’s pointless.

Things happen that you don't see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slow streets seems like a poor substitute for things that already exist.

If you actually want drivers to slow down, put in speed bumps.

If you want space to do leisure activity, who chooses the middle of the street — where some stoned out of his mind driver might run you down — over parks, yards and sidewalks? No one.

Slow streets is a solution in search of a problem.

Lots of people, actually, in places where you don't have to worry that a stoned-out-of-his-mind driver will run you down. Of course, stoned-out-of-their-mind drivers also run down people who are in parks, yards, and sidewalks, which strongly suggests that it's drivers who are the danger, not streets.

1. DC legalizes recreational pot
2. DC implements Slow Streets to protect the public from "stoned-out-of-their mind" drivers.

This is beginning to make some sense.

[Anonymous]

Just as an experiment this past weekend, we set out a cafe table and two chairs in the street just behind the slow street barricade at the end of our block on 48th street near Van Ness st.

It was clearly apparent to anyone that it was being used as a place for people to gather or sit.

Within an hour, a car had run into one of the chairs, smashing one of the legs badly.

The slow streets need to be CLOSED streets. Only accessible to people who actually live ON that street. Cut-through traffic needs to be eliminated altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just as an experiment this past weekend, we set out a cafe table and two chairs in the street just behind the slow street barricade at the end of our block on 48th street near Van Ness st.

It was clearly apparent to anyone that it was being used as a place for people to gather or sit.

Within an hour, a car had run into one of the chairs, smashing one of the legs badly.

The slow streets need to be CLOSED streets. Only accessible to people who actually live ON that street. Cut-through traffic needs to be eliminated altogether.

But also, drivers who can't avoid crashing their car into a chair shouldn't be allowed on any road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just as an experiment this past weekend, we set out a cafe table and two chairs in the street just behind the slow street barricade at the end of our block on 48th street near Van Ness st.

It was clearly apparent to anyone that it was being used as a place for people to gather or sit.

Within an hour, a car had run into one of the chairs, smashing one of the legs badly.

The slow streets need to be CLOSED streets. Only accessible to people who actually live ON that street. Cut-through traffic needs to be eliminated altogether.

But also, drivers who can't avoid crashing their car into a chair shouldn't be allowed on any road.

We may just get some yellow construction warning tape and block off one end of the street completely next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just as an experiment this past weekend, we set out a cafe table and two chairs in the street just behind the slow street barricade at the end of our block on 48th street near Van Ness st.

It was clearly apparent to anyone that it was being used as a place for people to gather or sit.

Within an hour, a car had run into one of the chairs, smashing one of the legs badly.

The slow streets need to be CLOSED streets. Only accessible to people who actually live ON that street. Cut-through traffic needs to be eliminated altogether.

But also, drivers who can't avoid crashing their car into a chair shouldn't be allowed on any road.

We may just get some yellow construction warning tape and block off one end of the street completely next time.

You do realize that's obstructing a public highway, illegal, and subject to a fine.