DC is dirty because Muriel Bowser is bad at her job

[Anonymous]

Got rainbows at your intersections. What more do you want?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 isn’t much better. Graffiti, trash, and marijuana smoke on most of the commercial corridors. We been trying to get a homeless encampment in our residential neighborhood removed for weeks and the city and councilman don’t seem interested in helping. What happened?

The council member, Mr Frumin, thinks that tolerating encampments and outdoor latrines is part of Ward 3 being “welcoming and inclusive for all.”

Where exactly are you seeing this? The only complaint I'm seeing in this thread that I also experience is the marijuana stench that permeates the entire city and suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mayor is bad but the council isn't doing oversight. Even at the performance oversight hearings they don't ask hard questions or follow up. They should be calling in the heads of dpw, DMV, oag, DDOT, and mpd every month and improving traffic safety and enforcement. They should be calling in mpd and the US attorney every week and figuring out why arrests aren't turning into prosecutions. Then they need to take the info they get and use it to make legislation or budget choices. But most of the council members are not smart enough to do this. They literally can't identify problems, then choose goals, then write bills that would achieve those goals, then pass those bills, then allocate appropriate funding, then monitor implementation. It's embarrassing but I doubt most of them would even be able to lay out that sequence and hope to achieve it.

100%.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The frequency of marijuana smell across town is disgraceful. And now they are approving dispensaries along the Wisconsin and Connecticut Ave. corridors that are packed with high rise buildings which will become unlivable for families and nonsmokers.

They moved a lot of the voucher holders into older buildings along those streets. Is it so surprising that suppliers follow our customers? The drug dealers are already doing that.

When I read that a dispensary is opening on the UDC campus I thought it was an Onion article. I just don’t understand this city.

College is hard. Students need their medication to relax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC isn't dirty.

Walk around N. Cap and R. Filthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The frequency of marijuana smell across town is disgraceful. And now they are approving dispensaries along the Wisconsin and Connecticut Ave. corridors that are packed with high rise buildings which will become unlivable for families and nonsmokers.

I agree but you can’t blame the mayor. The people of DC voted for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Compared to other major cities DC is not that bad.

Certain parts have always been messier than others, long before Bowser. What was the reasoning then,

Compared to what?

Mexico City? Mumbai? Moscow? Cairo? Calcutta? Johannesburg? Philadelphia? L.A.? S.F.? Portland?

Sure, maybe compared to all those cesspits it might seem cleaner….But that’s not exactly something to brag about.

[Anonymous]

There are zero consequences in DC for not just throwing trash on the ground including cigarette and joint butts and empty liquor bottles and beer cans but even stuff like defecating or peeing on city streets. There is also no enforcement of leaving dog feces wherever you feel like it or my personal favorite -- bagging your dog's poo but then leaving the bag of poo on the sidewalk. So now not only is there $hit on the sidewalk but also plastic. Good work.

And it feels like no one cares. There are a group of people in my neighborhood who literally just get together and throw garbage on the ground all day long. And then the next day they go sit in the same place among all their garbage. We have neighborhood cleanups regularly and will clean up their mess and they will just stand there while we clean up their trash and then sit back down and keep doing it. It makes me so angry. But no one will do anything about it. We raise it at ANC meetings and have talked to our Ward rep (who is a joke) and we just get mealy mouthed mumblings about how all we can do is ASK people not to throw their garbage on the street or just pick it up ourselves.

I can't do this any longer. What is the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are zero consequences in DC for not just throwing trash on the ground including cigarette and joint butts and empty liquor bottles and beer cans but even stuff like defecating or peeing on city streets. There is also no enforcement of leaving dog feces wherever you feel like it or my personal favorite -- bagging your dog's poo but then leaving the bag of poo on the sidewalk. So now not only is there $hit on the sidewalk but also plastic. Good work.

And it feels like no one cares. There are a group of people in my neighborhood who literally just get together and throw garbage on the ground all day long. And then the next day they go sit in the same place among all their garbage. We have neighborhood cleanups regularly and will clean up their mess and they will just stand there while we clean up their trash and then sit back down and keep doing it. It makes me so angry. But no one will do anything about it. We raise it at ANC meetings and have talked to our Ward rep (who is a joke) and we just get mealy mouthed mumblings about how all we can do is ASK people not to throw their garbage on the street or just pick it up ourselves.

I can't do this any longer. What is the point.

We are feeling this way about traffic enforcement. When cars with thousands of unpaid tickets can hit a child and not have any serious repercussions, then why would I let my child cross a street in this city?

The police are a joke and no help.

The mayor populates agency leadership roles with cronies who find novel ways to not do their jobs and Council is uninterested in providing a scintilla of oversight and accountability. Watch almost any oversight hearing and it is pretty much starstruck CMs shoveling effusive praise on the agency heads. When there is any criticism, it is meted out gently with literally no follow through, let alone consequences for the agency or the Mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC isn't dirty.

Ward 4 is filthy. I am embarrassed when my parents and grandparents visit.

[Anonymous]

Does DC even do street cleaning anymore? The garbage left in the streets certainly doesn't help the exploding rat problem. There are even weed trees growing in the gutter area on the street where we live.