Let's keep the outdoor dining, the streets reserved for walking, and the new bike lanes.

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Anonymous wrote:We need rat control though . When rats are running in the FRONT of restaurants, in daylight, that's a problem!

Rats are tough. The problem is the sewers.

I'm surprised with them being such a problem along the entire eastern seaboard that we haven't found a way to sterilize them. In the meantime, DC could really focus on trash receptacles, busting their nests, paying people for pelts whatever it takes

Ha yeah that’s a good point. They’re even running rampant in our suburban neighborhood right now.

And in the John Wilson building in DC

I believe DC has a shockingly small number of rodent personnel for such a rat infested city. Have you ever seen the night footage of them hopping and frolicking around Lafayette park in front of the WH? It's startling

I think the PP was speaking about rats in the Wilson Bldg both literally and metaphorically.

You can tell the rats in the Wilson Building because they have dollar bills hanging from their mouths. The developers have been feeding them.

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Roger that!

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Anonymous wrote:To all the NIMBYs saying we should just keep cars out of the city and do WFH forever, you guys are living in an economic fantasy world. The population of DC DOUBLES during the day with the influx of workers (historically). Did you really think that your residential population can support all these restaurants, coffee shops, etc.? No freaking way. Your businesses will shutter without all the terrible "commuters." Your sales tax revenues will plummet. The commuters keep your city alive

Yes, the people do. The cars don't.

Thanks for demonstrating that you do, in fact, live in an alternate reality. Probably only maximum 20% of workers in DC could feasibly live near a metro station or bike in even if we tore up and redid all of the development in VA/MD. There simply is not enough housing or even enough space for housing (in the best case scenario if we tore down all the houses and built communist style high rises around all VA/MD metro stations). I know people who commute into DC from Springfield and Gaithersburg to jobs that aren't even within walking distance of a metro. So you want them to drive half an hour to a metro station WITH THEIR BIKE, pay to park, metro in with their freaking bike, oftentimes switch a metro line, then when they're done with that bike another 10 minutes to the office? Yeah... say goodbye to your economy

The reality is that the metro area is continuing to grow, but road capacity, particularly inside the beltway, is not. So either get used to massive car based traffic jams for the decades ahead, or else figure out another way of getting into DC. That is reality. Not alternate reality.

Yes, this is right. As DC builds more housing units (of all types), it needs to figure out better transit too.

All cities go through this as they grow.

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Anonymous wrote:We need rat control though . When rats are running in the FRONT of restaurants, in daylight, that's a problem!

Rats are tough. The problem is the sewers.

I'm surprised with them being such a problem along the entire eastern seaboard that we haven't found a way to sterilize them. In the meantime, DC could really focus on trash receptacles, busting their nests, paying people for pelts whatever it takes

Ha yeah that’s a good point. They’re even running rampant in our suburban neighborhood right now.

And in the John Wilson building in DC

I believe DC has a shockingly small number of rodent personnel for such a rat infested city. Have you ever seen the night footage of them hopping and frolicking around Lafayette park in front of the WH? It's startling

I think the PP was speaking about rats in the Wilson Bldg both literally and metaphorically.

You can tell the rats in the Wilson Building because they have dollar bills hanging from their mouths. The developers have been feeding them.

I am not sure how much longer the current situation is sustainable. But probably a lot longer than anyone would otherwise expect.

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I am excited that once DC becomes a state ALL of the bureaucracies are going to be moved out of town. No more State Dept, Homeland, Commerce, FTC, Justice etc. Between telecommuting and the outright relocations due to politicians wanting jobs in their states, the bureaucrats will be moved out entirely! Space, freedom and total awesomeness.

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Anonymous wrote:I am excited that once DC becomes a state ALL of the bureaucracies are going to be moved out of town. No more State Dept, Homeland, Commerce, FTC, Justice etc. Between telecommuting and the outright relocations due to politicians wanting jobs in their states, the bureaucrats will be moved out entirely! Space, freedom and total awesomeness.

Why would they move? BTW the FTC Act says that the FTC is to have its principal office in Washington.

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Anonymous wrote:I am excited that once DC becomes a state ALL of the bureaucracies are going to be moved out of town. No more State Dept, Homeland, Commerce, FTC, Justice etc. Between telecommuting and the outright relocations due to politicians wanting jobs in their states, the bureaucrats will be moved out entirely! Space, freedom and total awesomeness.

Why would they move? BTW the FTC Act says that the FTC is to have its principal office in Washington.

Sure. The commissioners can stay in Washington. They can send all of the employees to Cincinnati.

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Anonymous wrote:I am excited that once DC becomes a state ALL of the bureaucracies are going to be moved out of town. No more State Dept, Homeland, Commerce, FTC, Justice etc. Between telecommuting and the outright relocations due to politicians wanting jobs in their states, the bureaucrats will be moved out entirely! Space, freedom and total awesomeness.

Why would they move? BTW the FTC Act says that the FTC is to have its principal office in Washington.

A subsequent law can change all that. Move the FTC too. Once it starts, it should all go.

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So about those car parking spaces for customers?

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Anonymous wrote:I am excited that once DC becomes a state ALL of the bureaucracies are going to be moved out of town. No more State Dept, Homeland, Commerce, FTC, Justice etc. Between telecommuting and the outright relocations due to politicians wanting jobs in their states, the bureaucrats will be moved out entirely! Space, freedom and total awesomeness.

Lol. Hope you can stay excited for several decades as you live in your fantasy world.

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So about those car parking spaces for customers?

And disabled people who can't ride bikes should do what? Just stay home?

Your able-bodied privilege is galling.

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So about those car parking spaces for customers?

And disabled people who can't ride bikes should do what? Just stay home?

Your able-bodied privilege is galling.

I don’t think anyone is talking about removing disabled parking. I suspect disabled people account for a pretty small fraction of drivers.

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So about those car parking spaces for customers?

Basic geography shows us this is somewhere in Europe where transportation and mobility patterns are different from those in the US.

Basic common sense shows us that without any context these pictures are nothing more than props to push a particular viewpoint.

I think you and the Cycling Professor would be happier across the Pond.

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So about those car parking spaces for customers?

And disabled people who can't ride bikes should do what? Just stay home?

Your able-bodied privilege is galling.

Lol able-bodied privilege. Not a thing woke bro.