Another traffic post

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Accidents on multiple North-South routes. This is happening because capacity has been reduced on all of those and DOT is intentionally increasing congestion throughout the city as a safety measures.

This is a factor. Also factors: Ramped-up return-to-office policies in the public and private sectors that have seen far more office worker types commuting downtown than they had been for the last five years; more aggressive driving since the pandemic (this is obviously anecdotal, but I've seen it everywhere, cities, suburbs, various states); bad luck.

A return to the office was inevitable and very predictable. Nothing that happened from 2020-2022 was normal. Using that as a baseline comparison is extremely disengenuous.

The simple truth is that, in 2022, DDOT started reducing capacity on all the major routes in and out of town and changed the timing on stop lights in order to increase congestion.

This created a scenario whereby there is no excess capacity on any of the major roads. Thus, there are no detours around a problem. If two of those routes get hit by an incident, such as an accident or temporary road closure, the entire network becomes gridlocked.

All of this was warned about repeatedly and ignored. The whole road diet/traffic calming project is reminiscent of what the George W. Bush administration did in Iraq.

But also, some RTO policies have ended remote work arrangements that long predated the pandemic, and on top of that, people have been driving rather than taking Metro. You really can’t put all the blame for traffic on any one cause. No matter how much you dislike the specific cause you’re going to pick.

Oh stop it. The purpose of the "road diets" is literally to reduce capacity and increase congestion. You should be happy that they are working as intended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accidents on multiple North-South routes. This is happening because capacity has been reduced on all of those and DOT is intentionally increasing congestion throughout the city as a safety measures.

This is a factor. Also factors: Ramped-up return-to-office policies in the public and private sectors that have seen far more office worker types commuting downtown than they had been for the last five years; more aggressive driving since the pandemic (this is obviously anecdotal, but I've seen it everywhere, cities, suburbs, various states); bad luck.

A return to the office was inevitable and very predictable. Nothing that happened from 2020-2022 was normal. Using that as a baseline comparison is extremely disengenuous.

The simple truth is that, in 2022, DDOT started reducing capacity on all the major routes in and out of town and changed the timing on stop lights in order to increase congestion.

This created a scenario whereby there is no excess capacity on any of the major roads. Thus, there are no detours around a problem. If two of those routes get hit by an incident, such as an accident or temporary road closure, the entire network becomes gridlocked.

All of this was warned about repeatedly and ignored. The whole road diet/traffic calming project is reminiscent of what the George W. Bush administration did in Iraq.

But also, some RTO policies have ended remote work arrangements that long predated the pandemic, and on top of that, people have been driving rather than taking Metro. You really can’t put all the blame for traffic on any one cause. No matter how much you dislike the specific cause you’re going to pick.

Oh stop it. The purpose of the "road diets" is literally to reduce capacity and increase congestion. You should be happy that they are working as intended.

I don’t drive downtown because the handful of times I did it before the pandemic were miserable, so I’d much rather metro. I have no opinion on road diets as policy.

[Anonymous]

Good.

Nothing changes unless people are forced to. This country is so disgustingly obese. Walk to work. Bike to work. Take public transport. Make driving as hard as possible. Cars are killing way too many people every single year. We are forced to bend over backwards constantly to build more car infrastructure. Waste soooo much prime real estate and land on stupid ass cars. Urban planning round cars and the automobile is the stupidest idea and one of the worst mistakes in the history of the US.

Make it impossible to drive and people will be forced to adapt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good.

Nothing changes unless people are forced to. This country is so disgustingly obese. Walk to work. Bike to work. Take public transport. Make driving as hard as possible. Cars are killing way too many people every single year. We are forced to bend over backwards constantly to build more car infrastructure. Waste soooo much prime real estate and land on stupid ass cars. Urban planning round cars and the automobile is the stupidest idea and one of the worst mistakes in the history of the US.

Make it impossible to drive and people will be forced to adapt.

At least you're being honest about your accelerationism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

So much privilege in this statement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

In other words, purposefully increasing congestion as part of an effort to intentionally make things worse today in order to force people to radically restructure their lives. Blue MAGA strikes again!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

In other words, purposefully increasing congestion as part of an effort to intentionally make things worse today in order to force people to radically restructure their lives. Blue MAGA strikes again!

DP. It's pretty clear the current model doesn't work. Having people drive 5,000 pound SUVs to commute has hit it's logical end point. No one likes it, drivers least of all based on how they post. So it's time to try something else. As with anything the transition may be rough. But maybe we wouldn't be here if people drove Fiats instead of F150s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

In other words, purposefully increasing congestion as part of an effort to intentionally make things worse today in order to force people to radically restructure their lives. Blue MAGA strikes again!

DP. It's pretty clear the current model doesn't work. Having people drive 5,000 pound SUVs to commute has hit it's logical end point. No one likes it, drivers least of all based on how they post. So it's time to try something else. As with anything the transition may be rough. But maybe we wouldn't be here if people drove Fiats instead of F150s.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

So much privilege in this statement.

You have clearly never ridden a bus in DC if you think riding it is for the privileged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

In other words, purposefully increasing congestion as part of an effort to intentionally make things worse today in order to force people to radically restructure their lives. Blue MAGA strikes again!

Complaining about traffic while sitting in traffic.

Ahhhh....the irony of not knowing YOU are the traffic.

[Anonymous]

At least you all are no admitting that the increase in congestion occurring right now is because of deliberate political choices.

And you wonder why the country is swinging to the right, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

So much privilege in this statement.

You have clearly never ridden a bus in DC if you think riding it is for the privileged.

I am physically disabled. Assuming that I can just ride a bus for all of my needs, or ride a bike or walk and just don't need my car is in fact very privileged. So GMAFB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

So much privilege in this statement.

You have clearly never ridden a bus in DC if you think riding it is for the privileged.

I am physically disabled. Assuming that I can just ride a bus for all of my needs, or ride a bike or walk and just don't need my car is in fact very privileged. So GMAFB.

The fact that you own a car is privileged. It’s an overused word that means nothing now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this political in nature?

Because the cause of the problem is a series of political choices that deliberately and knowingly increased congestion.

That being pro or anti-congestion is now a political issue is indeed stupid. But this is the world we now live in.

+1. The city of Alexandria is currently trying to REMOVE lanes on perpetually clogged Duke street because they think adding a bus lane and a bike lane will make the city a better place. It's absolutely asinine.

That isn't removing a lane, that is just designating it for a specific purpose. The lane is still there, people in cars just can't use it. Maybe try taking the bus?

So much privilege in this statement.

You have clearly never ridden a bus in DC if you think riding it is for the privileged.

I am physically disabled. Assuming that I can just ride a bus for all of my needs, or ride a bike or walk and just don't need my car is in fact very privileged. So GMAFB.

The fact that you own a car is privileged. It’s an overused word that means nothing now.

LOL, sure. I give another person’s point of view and you just dismiss it. Remember I belong to a demographic that anyone, at any time, can unintentionally find themselves a member of, not all of us were born like this. So maybe one day you too can discover how important a mobility aid (such as a car) is to a physically disabled person.