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AN overwhelming majority elected the DC mayor and council. The mayor and council are overwhelmingly in favor of making our streets safer. If you're from VA or MD, your "opinion" doesn't count. Take your road rage back to the boring suburbs. |
DC resident. Not a fan of what is going on downtown. Live in a UNW are that is not convenient for public transportation (which has its own drawbacks as the pandemic showed). Not a fan of lawless cyclicts -- law-abiding cyclists are fine. I have no problem penalizing out-of-state commuters via something like a congestion tax like London uses. But as a DC resident, I want to be able to drive and park and visit establishments. I went to the MLK library recently on a Sunday afternoon and drove around for 40 minutes trying to find parking and ended up having to pay $25 to park in a garage. So, yeah, I'd support someone who backed a more sensible approach. |
Why do you think it's more sensible for you to have free parking in downtown DC? Other than selfishness. |
So which building should we demolish to make room for your car? Even if you got rid of every sidewalk in the city, there physically would never be enough room for all the demand if there was free parking. Even downtown atlanta or miami or houston doesn't have unlimited free parking. Just move to a rural area and quit whining. |
Well, that is your choice. It isn't up to the city to ensure you can store your vehicle on public space. You could have bypassed the 40 minutes of circilng and just paid the $25 when you got there. Or you could have biked for free. Or, you could have taken a bus for a couple of dollars or the metro for 4 dollars. The fact of the matter is that what kind of worked in 1957 simply doesn't work anymore. We need to change our cities away from single occupancy vehicle subsidies. If you want to drive, pay for it. Otherwise, mass transit or bike/scooter is where things are going. If there are accessibility issues, that is what the red-top meters are for. This is happening in virtually every city around the world. |
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The cost per use of D.C.'s bike infrastructure must be astronomical.
The city has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on bike lanes, capital bikeshare, etc. How many people regularly ride in the city? 500? It would be cheaper for the city to pay each of those people $10,000 to ride the bus (and paying them is probably the only way they'd agree to ride the bus). I wish the city spent money on poor people like it spends money on white dudes who refuse to ride the bus. |
Because the vast majority of people in Washington drive? The real question is why we dedicate so much of our scarce transportation resources to such a tiny number of bicyclists. Look at our bike lanes. Barely anyone uses them. |
Wrong. As other PPs already explained, the majority of DC residents support making streets safer for bikers and pedestrians and stopping the crazy VA/MD commuter road rage. |
thousands. and each of them represents one less car to take space in your lane or your spot. so you should be happy about it |
You realize that the vast amount of space and money subsidy goes to single occupancy cars and their drivers, right? |
There were nearly 10,000 daily trips on Capital Bikeshare, even in the midst of lockdowns: https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/bikeshare-ridership-down-44-during-covid-19 And over 15,000 commuters living in Washington DC commuted by bicycle: https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Commuting&g=0500000US11001&tid=ACSST5Y2020.S0801 Your numbers are a bit off, to say the least, so I suspect that nobody takes your rant seriously. |
narrator: "This message has been brought to you by climate change. Climate change, let's keep it going!" |
2020? You mean when everything was closed and most people did not have a commute? Also, you can't just look at DC data because most people on the road in DC are from Virginia and Maryland. Also, daily trips is a useless metric. How many daily trips by car in DC are there every day? Five million? What we care about is the number of people using these things. All kinds of stat fouls here.... |
Sweetie, the climate change problem is so vast that it makes no difference whether you or me or anyone else rides a bike instead of driving car. Also, uh, if you dont want to drive you can walk or ride the subway or take the bus. Sorry but riding your bike is a completely inconsequential symbolic act and that's all it is. |
Biggest foul is that it didn't fit your narrative |