Pedestrians, wheelchairs and bicycles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of people in DC drives cars. A very small number of people in DC ride bikes and use other types of transportation. That's the proportion we should use in divvying up the roads. No one is more important than anyone else.

a very small proportion of people in DC walk anywhere or take transit? That’s news to me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of people in DC drives cars. A very small number of people in DC ride bikes and use other types of transportation. That's the proportion we should use in divvying up the roads. No one is more important than anyone else.

Plenty of people in DC walk, and take public transportation, and do things besides driving for every trip.

Not to mention, he isn’t just for DC.

There's 350,000 cars registered in DC. That's at least 500,000 who rely on a car. How many people ride bikes in DC? Probably fewer than 1,000 people.

"Having a car" and "relying on a car" are not synonyms.

There is no reason a car-owner can't also use their feet, a bicycle, a bus, or the subway for their transportation, and plenty do.

As for bikes, there were 100,071 trips just on Capital Bikeshare bikes, just in January 2021.

We're switching to trips now? That's apples and oranges. I drive my car at least twice a day. Assuming I'm a typical car owner, those 350,000 cars would translate to 22 MILLION trips in January. And there's surely a lot more than 350,000 cars in DC. Many aren't registered because the city charges an arm and a leg to register your car.

so what’s your view? it’s only fair if cars can go 60 mph everywhere, free parking, no money for sidewalks? come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is he a bit provincial? I feel like he is. In over his head, I think.

He’d be a decent mayor... oh, wait.

[Anonymous]

Here’s an interesting phenomenon I’ve observed. Americans love livable, walkable communities. “Town Center” developments like Reston and Pike and Rose are wildly popular. Affluent Americans also love going to European cities and walking everywhere. We spend money on bike tours of Napa and Italy. We idolize the residential college experience because of the sense of community and the ease of getting around. Then we will fight like hell to maintain an isolated, car-based lifestyle in the communities where we raise our families. I don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interesting phenomenon I’ve observed. Americans love livable, walkable communities. “Town Center” developments like Reston and Pike and Rose are wildly popular. Affluent Americans also love going to European cities and walking everywhere. We spend money on bike tours of Napa and Italy. We idolize the residential college experience because of the sense of community and the ease of getting around. Then we will fight like hell to maintain an isolated, car-based lifestyle in the communities where we raise our families. I don’t get it.

because you're being obtuse? people like cars because it makes their lives easier and richer. im sorry you have a weird jihad against cars, but you're in a itsy bitsy little tiny minority of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interesting phenomenon I’ve observed. Americans love livable, walkable communities. “Town Center” developments like Reston and Pike and Rose are wildly popular. Affluent Americans also love going to European cities and walking everywhere. We spend money on bike tours of Napa and Italy. We idolize the residential college experience because of the sense of community and the ease of getting around. Then we will fight like hell to maintain an isolated, car-based lifestyle in the communities where we raise our families. I don’t get it.

Yet Rockville Town Center was a ghost town even before the pandemic (I can only imagine how dead it is now). Explain that. Plus, Reston and Pike/Rose both have absurd amounts of cheap public parking (as does Rockville Town Center). It's not like many people are walking *to* those places, they're just walking *around* those places once they drive there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s an interesting phenomenon I’ve observed. Americans love livable, walkable communities. “Town Center” developments like Reston and Pike and Rose are wildly popular. Affluent Americans also love going to European cities and walking everywhere. We spend money on bike tours of Napa and Italy. We idolize the residential college experience because of the sense of community and the ease of getting around. Then we will fight like hell to maintain an isolated, car-based lifestyle in the communities where we raise our families. I don’t get it.

Yet Rockville Town Center was a ghost town even before the pandemic (I can only imagine how dead it is now). Explain that. Plus, Reston and Pike/Rose both have absurd amounts of cheap public parking (as does Rockville Town Center). It's not like many people are walking *to* those places, they're just walking *around* those places once they drive there.

DP. Rockville Town Center was not a ghost town, and the reason for its lack of success it NOT that people don't like walkable destinations. I agree that there's an absurd amount of cheap public parking everywhere, which is part of the problem. Plus they're surrounded by big roads, at least Rockville Town Center & Pike + Rose are, so walking to them is unpleasant and scary. The City of Rockville commissioned a whole study from the Urban Land Institute, which established (among other things) that the walk between Rockville Town Center and the MC Rockville campus is yucky.

[Anonymous]

Pedestrians, wheelchairs and bicycles. Isn’t this a movie with John Candy and Steve Martin? Those aren’t two pillows!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pedestrians, wheelchairs and bicycles. Isn’t this a movie with John Candy and Steve Martin? Those aren’t two pillows!!

How‘bout those Bears?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pedestrians, wheelchairs and bicycles. Isn’t this a movie with John Candy and Steve Martin? Those aren’t two pillows!!

How‘bout those Bears?!?

You’re messin’ with the wrong guy!

[Anonymous]

He wants me to use my wheelchair in the street? FFS. I just want regular curb cuts so I can even cross the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He wants me to use my wheelchair in the street? FFS. I just want regular curb cuts so I can even cross the street.

Curb cuts, accessible public transportation, etc. . . are the kinds of things he's probably referring to. Did you watch the clip?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He wants me to use my wheelchair in the street? FFS. I just want regular curb cuts so I can even cross the street.

No, he wants regular curb cuts so that you can cross the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He wants me to use my wheelchair in the street? FFS. I just want regular curb cuts so I can even cross the street.

No, he wants regular curb cuts so that you can cross the street.

Just out of curiosity, where in DC are there not curb cuts on corners?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He wants me to use my wheelchair in the street? FFS. I just want regular curb cuts so I can even cross the street.

Curb cuts, accessible public transportation, etc. . . are the kinds of things he's probably referring to. Did you watch the clip?

I sure did, he never mentioned curb cuts. Do you practice telepathy, is that how you connected that dot? GMAB.