Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a member of the community and an avid cyclist, I’m opposed. Protected bike lanes offer a false sense of safety, they take you out of direct line of sight of vehicles and allow cars to forget about you. Proper vehicular cycling is much safer. These bike lanes are guaranteed going to get cyclists killed.

Disagree. Riding in mixed traffic is far more dangerous, particularly on Conn Ave.

Then stay off of Conn when riding a bike. This is not difficult.

Hard to do when the shops I need to access are...on Connecticut Avenue.

You sound well....very bike dependant. Like bike brain. Have you considered taking Metro? There must be some buses running on Conn.

I ride Metro all of the time. It doesn't make sense for me to take the metro to Van Ness and then walk to Politcs and Prose when I can do it faster on my bike if it were safe on the Avenue. People like me split their mobility share, sometimes mass transit, sometime walk, sometimes bike and sometimes rent a car. The easiest and cheapest is to bike.

It makes a lot more sense for you to possibly reconsider other options to get to Politics and Prose then expecting the city to spend millions of tax dollars to build infrastructure (in addition to what already exists) to make the minority feel safer at the expense of the majority. Have you ever thought of that? We can't bubble wrap the world for you; you may have to consider other options as bikers are so ready to tell drivers to do.

Or, the city can just go ahead with plans to enable safe, efficient transportation choices for everyone.

The city already does that. You just want more, more, more........

No, the city does not, currently. Certainly not on Connecticut Avenue. But soon it will. Don't worry, though, you will still be able to drive on Connecticut Avenue, if you choose to do that.

[Anonymous]

It should not be lost on anyone that the same people and ANCs that are pushing this half-baked scheme are also the same ones cheerleading the current defund the police/criminal code reform effort.

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One thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other. Don’t derail the discussion with a whole bunch of anti woke nonsense please.

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Anonymous wrote:One thing has absolutely nothing to do with the other. Don’t derail the discussion with a whole bunch of anti woke nonsense please.

Both issues involve safety and judgment. Dog bites you once and it’s the dog’s fault. Bites you twice….

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Is it even possible to derail a thread that is at 205 pages and, at this point, consists primarily of tired anti-"cyclist" bigotry?

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Anti cyclist bigotry????? Melodramatic much?

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Anonymous wrote:Anti cyclist bigotry????? Melodramatic much?

Not at all, no, thank you for asking.

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Great way to undermine all claims that this is about anything but a bunch of whiny, white entitled people.

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Entitled is the key word when it comes to cyclists in this area. I say from experience not bigotry. Their complete indifference to the non cyclists in the community is but one demonstration of this.

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Drivers are the entitled ones. Already have 98% of the public space and fight over giving up 1% of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Drivers are the entitled ones. Already have 98% of the public space and fight over giving up 1% of it.

You live in a city that is majority minority and you believe that people who are not sufficiently deferential to your hobby are “bigots”? And this is somehow not evidence of entitlement? Seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:Please post links to the numerous incidents of cars driving on a biking trail, sidewalk or tow path. When Beach Drive is closed on the weekends how many cars do you see there? How about the trolley trail? Take your time,

Bunch of photos here of cars on the Capital Crescent Trail if you'd like to scroll through: https://twitter.com/search?q=car%20capital%20crescent%20trail&src=typed_query&f=live

There are two pictures taken two years apart. You didn't even bother to look at what you were posting did you? SMDH.

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Anonymous wrote:Drivers are the entitled ones. Already have 98% of the public space and fight over giving up 1% of it.

You live in a city that is majority minority and you believe that people who are not sufficiently deferential to your hobby are “bigots”? And this is somehow not evidence of entitlement? Seriously?

If you do not understand what bigotry is and why many of the comments on this thread could be construed as such, that is no one’s problem but your own.

Your insistence on classing cycling as a hobby further demonstrates that you are not interested in reasonable and respectful discourse.

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Anonymous wrote:Drivers are the entitled ones. Already have 98% of the public space and fight over giving up 1% of it.

You live in a city that is majority minority and you believe that people who are not sufficiently deferential to your hobby are “bigots”? And this is somehow not evidence of entitlement? Seriously?

If you do not understand what bigotry is and why many of the comments on this thread could be construed as such, that is no one’s problem but your own.

Your insistence on classing cycling as a hobby further demonstrates that you are not interested in reasonable and respectful discourse.

I encourage you to go around all day demanding everyone to respect your hobby or else they are all bigots. I am sure that is going to go over well.

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Anonymous wrote:Drivers are the entitled ones. Already have 98% of the public space and fight over giving up 1% of it.

You live in a city that is majority minority and you believe that people who are not sufficiently deferential to your hobby are “bigots”? And this is somehow not evidence of entitlement? Seriously?

If you do not understand what bigotry is and why many of the comments on this thread could be construed as such, that is no one’s problem but your own.

Your insistence on classing cycling as a hobby further demonstrates that you are not interested in reasonable and respectful discourse.

I encourage you to go around all day demanding everyone to respect your hobby or else they are all bigots. I am sure that is going to go over well.

Driving? Is that what you're referring to?