Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

What you call a hobby is what I call my mode of transportation.

Just because your vision of cyclists are middle aged white men in lycra means you are completely blind to the rest of us, who you are not seeing, on bikes. We are the ones shopping, hauling our kids, going to work, visiting friends etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

What you call a hobby is what I call my mode of transportation.

Just because your vision of cyclists are middle aged white men in lycra means you are completely blind to the rest of us, who you are not seeing, on bikes. We are the ones shopping, hauling our kids, going to work, visiting friends etc.

Your whole identity is tied to your favored form of transportation. That’s not normal.

[Anonymous]

There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

Good for him

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

Yes but just think of all the strangers you can annoy with that 6k BigWheel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

There's nothing efficient about using a $50,000, 5,000-pound motor vehicle to transport one person 2,500 ft and then transport one person plus a gallon of milk another 2,500 feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

If you think the dentists riding in lycra on the weekend aiming for their Strava KOMs on their $6,000 durace cannondales is who the city is building bike lanes for, you are a loon. Those guys never ride on Conn Ave and never will. And they'd also never be caught in a bike lane in the first place since they are moving at the car speed.

The bike lanes are for commuter and local cyclists. For kids, for people on bike shares, for people who are not comfortable riding in traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

If you think the dentists riding in lycra on the weekend aiming for their Strava KOMs on their $6,000 durace cannondales is who the city is building bike lanes for, you are a loon. Those guys never ride on Conn Ave and never will. And they'd also never be caught in a bike lane in the first place since they are moving at the car speed.

The bike lanes are for commuter and local cyclists. For kids, for people on bike shares, for people who are not comfortable riding in traffic.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

There's nothing efficient about using a $50,000, 5,000-pound motor vehicle to transport one person 2,500 ft and then transport one person plus a gallon of milk another 2,500 feet.

If you have already own the vehicle then maximizing its use is the very definition of efficient. Buying a vehicle and not using is inefficient and wasteful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

There's nothing efficient about using a $50,000, 5,000-pound motor vehicle to transport one person 2,500 ft and then transport one person plus a gallon of milk another 2,500 feet.

If you have already own the vehicle then maximizing its use is the very definition of efficient. Buying a vehicle and not using is inefficient and wasteful.

I assume you live in your vehicle, to maximize its use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

There's nothing efficient about using a $50,000, 5,000-pound motor vehicle to transport one person 2,500 ft and then transport one person plus a gallon of milk another 2,500 feet.

If you have already own the vehicle then maximizing its use is the very definition of efficient. Buying a vehicle and not using is inefficient and wasteful.

I assume you live in your vehicle, to maximize its use.

Some vehicles are designed for dual use as a home and transportation, in which case using it for both is indeed efficiency maximizing. The vehicle you referenced, a F150, is for transportation and not residence. It is similarly efficient to only have one residence and to maximize its use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

There's nothing efficient about using a $50,000, 5,000-pound motor vehicle to transport one person 2,500 ft and then transport one person plus a gallon of milk another 2,500 feet.

If you have already own the vehicle then maximizing its use is the very definition of efficient. Buying a vehicle and not using is inefficient and wasteful.

I assume you live in your vehicle, to maximize its use.

Some vehicles are designed for dual use as a home and transportation, in which case using it for both is indeed efficiency maximizing. The vehicle you referenced, a F150, is for transportation and not residence. It is similarly efficient to only have one residence and to maximize its use.

A missed and inefficient opportunity. You should give up your separate residence, move into an RV, and drive it half a mile for a gallon of milk. Or, actually, you should park your RV at a Walmart and just cross the parking lot on foot for your milk. That would be even more efficient.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's nothing normal about someone who brags about hauling lumber from Home Depot on his bike (actually saw this on NextDoor).

On the other hand, it's totally normal to drive your $50,000 extended-cab F150 pick-up truck to the Giant a half mile away to buy a gallon of milk, but it's nothing to brag about.

It is totally normal to efficiently use the transportation that is available to you. It would be totally abnormal to go out and buy a $6000 bicycle just to make that one trip when you already have a vehicle.

There's nothing efficient about using a $50,000, 5,000-pound motor vehicle to transport one person 2,500 ft and then transport one person plus a gallon of milk another 2,500 feet.

If you have already own the vehicle then maximizing its use is the very definition of efficient. Buying a vehicle and not using is inefficient and wasteful.

Even if you the vehicle, the sum total of the mileage depreciation, fuel costs, and additional maintenance render it an inefficient option for anything that can be practically be done on a bike or by bus. And that’s only considering the internal costs to the user. Once you factor in the various negative externalities that driving a massive, massively heavy, and carbon-emitting vehicle around, you have an option that is a disaster not just for yourself but for everyone else in the world as well. It’s sad that this still needs to be spelled out in this day and age.