Bowser urges Biden to end telework policies for federal workers

[Anonymous]

She needs to shove it. There are homeless people all over the sidewalks near my office. You can't even walk on the sidewalk if you want to go out to lunch. She should worry about that.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro is a mess. The roads are more congested than ever (and they just announced plans for 100s more speed cameras in case going down major arteries like 16th wasn't painful enough). And crime is worse than ever. Maybe Bowser should focus on ways to make it easier for people to get downtown, rather than forcing them to do it against their will.

Exactly! make it more attractive for people to want to come in. She has been bashing commuters, taking parking spaces away, creating more and more bike lanes, cameras, etc for years. Where the hell does she think feds can afford to live? It's not an easy bike ride to work.

The glib war on commuters they have been waging looks pretty counter productive and a lot like self-inflicted harm now that they are begging the Federal government to force them back.

There's no "war on commuters", just like there's no "war on cars".

Are you really going to claim that commuting into DC hasn't gotten exponentially harder over the past 20-30 years as a direct result of policies enacted by the mayor/s?

As a long time resident of DC, I agree that commuting has become more difficult, but pretty sure the biggest factor is increased population in DC and the region.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro is a mess. The roads are more congested than ever (and they just announced plans for 100s more speed cameras in case going down major arteries like 16th wasn't painful enough). And crime is worse than ever. Maybe Bowser should focus on ways to make it easier for people to get downtown, rather than forcing them to do it against their will.

Exactly! make it more attractive for people to want to come in. She has been bashing commuters, taking parking spaces away, creating more and more bike lanes, cameras, etc for years. Where the hell does she think feds can afford to live? It's not an easy bike ride to work.

The glib war on commuters they have been waging looks pretty counter productive and a lot like self-inflicted harm now that they are begging the Federal government to force them back.

There's no "war on commuters", just like there's no "war on cars".

Are you really going to claim that commuting into DC hasn't gotten exponentially harder over the past 20-30 years as a direct result of policies enacted by the mayor/s?

As a long time resident of DC, I agree that commuting has become more difficult, but pretty sure the biggest factor is increased population in DC and the region.

I am the one you are responding to and I lived on Conn Ave in a condo from 2007 until 2021. It is a well known fact that DC has implemented policies that reduced the number of parking spaces in the city to reduce the number of cars coming in. They have also made more and more lanes bike only lanes. The population has increased, sure. But they have have everything in their power to make driving into the city more difficult. Now, there is metro, of course, but with the crime the way it is, and the service not being anywhere where it needs to be to support the pre-pandemic number of commuters, she needs to just shut up.

[Anonymous]

Agree that commuting is a nightmare (and most feds can't afford to live in DC or within biking distance to work). Somehow, even with all these people supposedly teleworking, traffic is much worse than it was before the pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone from the Biden administration acknowledged or commented on this?

The Biden administration has responded and the response was cold-blooded, LOL.

"I don't have any announcement to make from here, or any response, really, to Mayor Bowser," Jean-Pierre said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/muriel-bowser-battle-joe-biden-telework-latest-pandemic

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Anonymous wrote:Metro is a mess. The roads are more congested than ever (and they just announced plans for 100s more speed cameras in case going down major arteries like 16th wasn't painful enough). And crime is worse than ever. Maybe Bowser should focus on ways to make it easier for people to get downtown, rather than forcing them to do it against their will.

Exactly! make it more attractive for people to want to come in. She has been bashing commuters, taking parking spaces away, creating more and more bike lanes, cameras, etc for years. Where the hell does she think feds can afford to live? It's not an easy bike ride to work.

The glib war on commuters they have been waging looks pretty counter productive and a lot like self-inflicted harm now that they are begging the Federal government to force them back.

There's no "war on commuters", just like there's no "war on cars".

Are you really going to claim that commuting into DC hasn't gotten exponentially harder over the past 20-30 years as a direct result of policies enacted by the mayor/s?

Oh, you mean DRIVING into DC.

[Anonymous]

Oh all of a sudden you need us .. I thought we were a drain on DC… we didn’t pay taxes but used the resources.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone from the Biden administration acknowledged or commented on this?

The Biden administration has responded and the response was cold-blooded, LOL.

"I don't have any announcement to make from here, or any response, really, to Mayor Bowser," Jean-Pierre said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/muriel-bowser-battle-joe-biden-telework-latest-pandemic

If anything the administration should have embraced full remote work whole hog and didn’t for the sake of optics (the pandemic is over!) and placating Bowser. It feels like a lot of feds are recognizing that “hybrid” is sort of useless and it’s time to embrace remote work.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh all of a sudden you need us .. I thought we were a drain on DC… we didn’t pay taxes but used the resources.

Exactly. They need to make up their minds.

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone from the Biden administration acknowledged or commented on this?

The Biden administration has responded and the response was cold-blooded, LOL.

"I don't have any announcement to make from here, or any response, really, to Mayor Bowser," Jean-Pierre said.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/muriel-bowser-battle-joe-biden-telework-latest-pandemic

If anything the administration should have embraced full remote work whole hog and didn’t for the sake of optics (the pandemic is over!) and placating Bowser. It feels like a lot of feds are recognizing that “hybrid” is sort of useless and it’s time to embrace remote work.

It’s a bold and frankly stupid move for Bowser to go directly at Biden making demands. Particularly demands that are so outlandish.

They also don’t make any sense. If the Federal government gave up all leased office space in DC and consolidated in federally owned buildings, wouldn’t that make DC’s problem worse? Cap rates go down even lower and commercial property tax collections take an even bigger budget hit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She needs to shove it. There are homeless people all over the sidewalks near my office. You can't even walk on the sidewalk if you want to go out to lunch. She should worry about that.

Not only has her government done NOTHING to alleviate homelessness, they made the problem worse by legalizing overnight “camping” in every and all parks in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro is a mess. The roads are more congested than ever (and they just announced plans for 100s more speed cameras in case going down major arteries like 16th wasn't painful enough). And crime is worse than ever. Maybe Bowser should focus on ways to make it easier for people to get downtown, rather than forcing them to do it against their will.

Exactly! make it more attractive for people to want to come in. She has been bashing commuters, taking parking spaces away, creating more and more bike lanes, cameras, etc for years. Where the hell does she think feds can afford to live? It's not an easy bike ride to work.

The glib war on commuters they have been waging looks pretty counter productive and a lot like self-inflicted harm now that they are begging the Federal government to force them back.

There's no "war on commuters", just like there's no "war on cars".

Are you really going to claim that commuting into DC hasn't gotten exponentially harder over the past 20-30 years as a direct result of policies enacted by the mayor/s?

Oh, you mean DRIVING into DC.

Is your opinion that Metro service has IMPROVED over the past 20 years? A transit system that has been losing riders every year since 2008? A transit system that has spawned this website: https://ismetroonfire.com/

LOL.

They have certainly made it a lot easier to bicycle (less than 4% of commuters), but it has gotten a lot harder for everyone else - and more expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Metro is a mess. The roads are more congested than ever (and they just announced plans for 100s more speed cameras in case going down major arteries like 16th wasn't painful enough). And crime is worse than ever. Maybe Bowser should focus on ways to make it easier for people to get downtown, rather than forcing them to do it against their will.

This.

[Anonymous]

Starting with the 8 year Clinton administration (and fully supported during 8 years of bush), the WH ordered agencies to support telework where possible, and especially in the DMV.

Only mid-level fed managers actively resisted these presidential orders.

Until Covid: then these managers were actively forced to allow telework for portable / telework-ready jobs.

Bowser is now opposing more than 2 decades of presidential orders to support telework in DC.

The Sierra Club and all federal unions should stage a sit-in in Bowsers office until she reversed her climate-damaging and anti-worker position.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro is a mess. The roads are more congested than ever (and they just announced plans for 100s more speed cameras in case going down major arteries like 16th wasn't painful enough). And crime is worse than ever. Maybe Bowser should focus on ways to make it easier for people to get downtown, rather than forcing them to do it against their will.

Exactly! make it more attractive for people to want to come in. She has been bashing commuters, taking parking spaces away, creating more and more bike lanes, cameras, etc for years. Where the hell does she think feds can afford to live? It's not an easy bike ride to work.

The glib war on commuters they have been waging looks pretty counter productive and a lot like self-inflicted harm now that they are begging the Federal government to force them back.

There's no "war on commuters", just like there's no "war on cars".

Are you really going to claim that commuting into DC hasn't gotten exponentially harder over the past 20-30 years as a direct result of policies enacted by the mayor/s?

Oh, you mean DRIVING into DC.

Is your opinion that Metro service has IMPROVED over the past 20 years? A transit system that has been losing riders every year since 2008? A transit system that has spawned this website: https://ismetroonfire.com/

LOL.

They have certainly made it a lot easier to bicycle (less than 4% of commuters), but it has gotten a lot harder for everyone else - and more expensive.

You're blaming Metro on the mayor? Huh. But anyway, no, Metro service is not worse than 20 years ago.