Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

I can't actually read 100 pages of this, but I have to say that the anti-bike people are coming off as real loony. You're not doing yourselves any favors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:One of the WABA contracts include paying someone $150,000 per year, rising to $180,000 to be a “bicycle ambassador” which includes hanging out and riding around trails and bike lanes for 20 hours per week. How is this not corruption?

https://contracts.ocp.dc.gov/contracts/attachments/Q1c3NTQ3MsKmQmFzZSBQZXJpb2TCpnszRTM4NkU4Qy1BRDQ3LTQ1MUMtQTlBNC05Qzk0OEI3MEY3ODF9

We're paying them $1,102.50 per bicycle on top of everything else. What the hell, these are bikes for 8 year olds and we don't get to keep them.

At these prices it would be inordinately cheaper to just give every 8 year old a bike.

You will doubtlessly a long and illustrious career exposing waste in government contracting. Just wait until you start going through the defense budget. You will look back on those days when got worked up about a $1,000 bicycle in astonishment that you ever could have been so impressionable.

You're defending this with a whataboutism about Pentagon procurement?

FYI an industrial grade adult bike is less than $500 through GSA Global Supply

I’m saying that if you are really concerned about the efficiency of public spending, this is about the last thing you should be concerned about. Although I doubt this has anyone to do with that. You are just trying to find something that occupies your time, fulfills your insatiable need to find conspiracies in every policy outcome you disagree with, and indulges your irrational hatred towards all thing bicycle.

[Anonymous]

The small little bike lobby must be proud of what they accomplished here: 161 pages and over 2,400 posts does a real good job of distorting how few people actually bike in the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The small little bike lobby must be proud of what they accomplished here: 161 pages and over 2,400 posts does a real good job of distorting how few people actually bike in the city.

It is the same 4 people who are opposed to the bike lanes that have spawned this. I don't know of any cyclists who actually read this forum. They are, you know, out cycling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The small little bike lobby must be proud of what they accomplished here: 161 pages and over 2,400 posts does a real good job of distorting how few people actually bike in the city.

It is the same 4 people who are opposed to the bike lanes that have spawned this. I don't know of any cyclists who actually read this forum. They are, you know, out cycling.

At this point I'm mostly only replying to get that one person's WABA donation a few bucks higher.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Hey Jeff, can we get stats on how many unique commenters are on this massive thread and how many repeat commenters there are? It feels like the same ten people but who knows!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The small little bike lobby must be proud of what they accomplished here: 161 pages and over 2,400 posts does a real good job of distorting how few people actually bike in the city.

It is the same 4 people who are opposed to the bike lanes that have spawned this. I don't know of any cyclists who actually read this forum. They are, you know, out cycling.

At this point I'm mostly only replying to get that one person's WABA donation a few bucks higher.

Me too. Happy to pound the pavement for a solid cause!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hey Jeff, can we get stats on how many unique commenters are on this massive thread and how many repeat commenters there are? It feels like the same ten people but who knows!

Yes that would be great! Based on my CP listserv experience, it should be about 5 people.

[Anonymous]

Just by way of example, when people say they didn't know about something....the DC Office of Planning has been conducting studies on both Wisconsin and Conn Ave's.

The ANCs and OP, as well as the Mayor, Cheh and the Main Street Orgs have all put out emails and social media announcements. In addition, the OP studies have been discussed widely on the neighborhood email groups. Just like the Connecticut Ave bike lanes.

Yesterday, OP held an open house at the CP library for several hours. The activity on the avenue was in full swing, it was a beautiful day.

A whopping 25 people showed up, and many of those were ANC Commissioners and political candidates.

I am sure that in 5 months, we are going to get a whole lotta whining when OP comes out with its suggests changes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just by way of example, when people say they didn't know about something....the DC Office of Planning has been conducting studies on both Wisconsin and Conn Ave's.

The ANCs and OP, as well as the Mayor, Cheh and the Main Street Orgs have all put out emails and social media announcements. In addition, the OP studies have been discussed widely on the neighborhood email groups. Just like the Connecticut Ave bike lanes.

Yesterday, OP held an open house at the CP library for several hours. The activity on the avenue was in full swing, it was a beautiful day.

A whopping 25 people showed up, and many of those were ANC Commissioners and political candidates.

I am sure that in 5 months, we are going to get a whole lotta whining when OP comes out with its suggests changes.

OP’s “public process” does not involve formal public meeting or hearings. It’s stations with stickers. Op scheduled only one date in Cleveland Park, with no alternate. So if the date and time presented a conflict for people, they were out of luck.

OP calls it’s stations and stickers show a “Charette.” Charade is a more accurate description.

[Anonymous]

One can always go to the project website, look at the boards and submit a comment or comments.

There is no time restriction on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hey Jeff, can we get stats on how many unique commenters are on this massive thread and how many repeat commenters there are? It feels like the same ten people but who knows!

Yes that would be great! Based on my CP listserv experience, it should be about 5 people.

Sounds about right. A lot of cyclists seem to have an inordinate amount of free time to not only go from A to B, but also evangelize about cycling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the WABA contracts include paying someone $150,000 per year, rising to $180,000 to be a “bicycle ambassador” which includes hanging out and riding around trails and bike lanes for 20 hours per week. How is this not corruption?

https://contracts.ocp.dc.gov/contracts/attachments/Q1c3NTQ3MsKmQmFzZSBQZXJpb2TCpnszRTM4NkU4Qy1BRDQ3LTQ1MUMtQTlBNC05Qzk0OEI3MEY3ODF9

We're paying them $1,102.50 per bicycle on top of everything else. What the hell, these are bikes for 8 year olds and we don't get to keep them.

At these prices it would be inordinately cheaper to just give every 8 year old a bike.

You will doubtlessly a long and illustrious career exposing waste in government contracting. Just wait until you start going through the defense budget. You will look back on those days when got worked up about a $1,000 bicycle in astonishment that you ever could have been so impressionable.

You're defending this with a whataboutism about Pentagon procurement?

FYI an industrial grade adult bike is less than $500 through GSA Global Supply

I’m saying that if you are really concerned about the efficiency of public spending, this is about the last thing you should be concerned about. Although I doubt this has anyone to do with that. You are just trying to find something that occupies your time, fulfills your insatiable need to find conspiracies in every policy outcome you disagree with, and indulges your irrational hatred towards all thing bicycle.

Of course. Just like everything else you write. Nothing but defensiveness, projection, insults, victimhood and lies. It's a bad plan and the numbers don't add up. It will be disastrous. The fact that you're ok with the city creating it's own astroturf organization and using DDOT and the schools as a slush fund is strange but not suprising. You've wrapped your identity in this whole project as part of a search for redemption and feel the slightest criticism as a personal attack. You have become the exact thing you claim to oppose. Form witbout meaning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To recap:

1. The lion's share of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association's $2 million budget comes from the D.C. government. Very few people actually donate to them. Membership dues amount to about $100,000.

2. WABA appears to be illegally using this taxpayer money to lobby the DC government on bike lanes.

3. WABA says it's not just lobbying, that it has an educational mission too. But that educational mission appears to boil down to renting $100 bikes for children in PE classes at school to the city at more than $1,000 a pop.

Your tax dollars at work.