The Bike Lobby is too powerful in DC...

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Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why bicyclists aren't required to wear helmets, or why they're allowed to put small children on bikes without helmets. If those kids were in cars, they'd be required to wear seat belts or be in car seats...

I mean, I'll care about this when the city actually does something about reciprocity with crappy drivers from M/VA, actually starts traffic enforcement for people who run stop signs and red lights without any enforcement (literally in front of police cars and nothing happens).

Or, actually puts in a crosswalk at one intersection in my neighborhood that we've been advocating for for a decade and it never happens.

You seriously MUST live in rich real estate if this is what is most top of mind to you to complain about. Just admit it. Take a drive to other parts of the city and tell me if bike helmets are really the bigger concern in terms of road safety.

Wow. It going to take an awful lot for you to start caring about the safety of small children.

I do. I have two of them myself. It's why I like safe road design, especially when I live in parts of the city that have crappy road design and it takes a decade of advocating for a simple crosswalk whereas those in the rich areas get one fairly quickly. Especially when safe road design also prevents criminals from barreling through neighborhoods shooting guns at a million miles per hour as we've actually dealt with.

You still didn't admit you live in rich NW where you aren't even dealing with much crime and your roads are designed better anyways, and having $$ has meant you got 311 requests more quickly and efficiently. It's ok. Just be honest.

You make a lot of weird assumptions. Also, don't you have anything better to do? It sounds like you spend your entire day on this stupid web site just waiting to jump down the throat of anyone who isn't into bicycles.

Well that confirms my assumption because you won't deny it. I assume you have to live in NW if bicyclists annoy you more than cars. You don't actually experience the day to day nuisance of bad road design. You don't experience things like criminals flying down your one way street the wrong way while you're trying to get your kids into the car (hey, no one died! I shouldn't care, right? I should care about the bicyclists, right!). You don't experience drivers running the red light at the end of your street At. Least. Once. Every. Single. Week. when you have the green and are turning left with your kids in the car. You don't even experience much of the crime you are pretending to be so concerned about while here in a forum about the bike lobby advocating for safer streets.

Also, apparently you don't have anything better to do either, you're here too?

I think the bolded seems to be what people are either obtusely or deliberately missing here. Safe street design isn't just to prevent people from dying or getting hit. There are so many close calls that never get reported and aren't in any statistics that still make it dangerous or unpleasant to walk or bike places in the city. If someone blows a stop sign and almost hits my kids that isn't going to be in a police report but it still has an effect on my day. It means I might be less likely to let my ten year old walk home so then I have to drive him.

There are people on this site who see to say that if people don't die then we shouldn't need to make changes to the street. That is fine if that is your position but know that other advocate for safe streets so that we can have higher quality of life, which for us includes walking or biking places. If that means that a person in a car gets someone five minutes later, I truly do not care. (and if it means that when I drive somewhere I get to my destination five minutes slower then I am all for it if it means that kids can cross streets safely). Transit isn't solely about getting people to their destinations as fast as possible while they re sitting in climate controlled, cushy metal boxes. There are other people who have different preferences than you and we are absolutely going to continue to advocate for them.

Or maybe you should just be more careful? You live in a big city, one of the most densely populated in North America. There's lots of people moving around and sh*t is going to happen. You'd probably be better off exercising a little common sense than putting all your hopes in a doomed-to-fail campaign to have the government try to engineer away accidents.

So you think it is ok to ask me and my children to be extremely careful (which we are, by the way) and not to ask drivers to be extremely careful? Drivers don't have to be aware of the fact that they are driving through densely populated areas but pedestrians do? Why the double standard?

Is yours just a "might makes right" argument that because someone chooses to drive a deadly vehicle then everyone has to get out of his way? This is WHY the streets need to be re-engineered. If there is a bollard in your way as you make a turn that slows you down or a speed bump or other traffic calming then you can't bully pedestrians as you run a stop sign.

Watch any intersection where there is a crosswalk and no stop sign or signal. Pedestrians legally have the right of way but they wait until cars full stop or there is no traffic (IOW they are being careful) because drivers are unable or unwilling to drive carefully and yield to the party that has the legal right of way.

Drivers are careful. People in this city probably take close to a billion car trips a year, and yet the number of people involved in accidents is tiny. That doesn't just happen unless people are trying to avoid running into each other. For those who aren't careful, we already have lots and lots of penalties (including sending them to prison).

There are over 3 billion VMT on DC roads each year. Annual car trips by DC residents (excluding MD and VA drivers) are estimated around 2.5 million. Accidents on DC roads are very rare and DC is one of the safest cities in the US for vehicle accidents.

Sure. And mass shootings are rare and devastating. But I'd also like more done to prevent them. Same concept. "These things are rare. Thoughts and prayers."

The issue is diminishing returns. Most people don't think it's worth spending billions of dollars and ruining traffic for hundreds of thousands of people so that we can reduce the number of traffic deaths from 24 to 22. The city has more important things to do.

It isn't just traffic deaths. It is injury, repairs to auto, maintenance on roads, pollution and corresponding health externalities as well as cost savings when more people are walking and biking.

More people aren't going to walk or bike. They'll just drive elsewhere. They'll avoid neighborhoods that are too hard to get to or they'll take side streets instead of main arteries designed for lots of traffic or they'll just sit in traffic longer.

You can see this happening downtown. The city conveniently used the pandemic to put bike lanes everywhere and now it's just really hard to get around. Not surprisingly, a lot fewer people are going downtown. It's not the only reason downtown is dying. But it's a big one.

The goal was to make it harder to drive so less people drive. The assumption was that if they don’t drive they would still come downtown but on bikes or transit. The reality is that they are just going somewhere else instead. In the meantime, retail vacancy in downtown is 20% and rising. One out of every five storefronts are vacant.

You are just making up bike lanes as a reason for decreased occupancy downtown. Sorry, that's not the reason.

I said nothing about bike lanes. There is nothing that I said that was inaccurate. This is “traffic calming”. Funny that you want to run away from and not defend your own agenda when its negative impacts are clear. If you reduce road capacity, the traffic does not magically disappear. It just goes somewhere else.

The reason that there are so many vacant storefronts downtown is that people are not coming back to work in large numbers. One reason why many people are choosing not to come back downtown is that DC had intentionally made it difficult to navigate with a car. That should be considered a policy victory. Right? I guess you don’t like the consequences.

Well at least you can now ride your bikes faster past those blighted downtown areas to reach your vibrant urban destination.

The main reason people are not coming back to work downtown in large numbers is that the federal government hasn't required it yet, and many other large employers haven't, either. Not because driving got harder.

If urbanism is so great, why are people not going back downtown on their own to enjoy the vibrancy? Why would they need to be forced? In the meantime, the city has made it less convenient for people who would otherwise choose to venture downtown voluntarily as a matter of policy. This is the expected result.

There are other urban parts of DC that are not downtown.

But downtown is definitionally the most urban part of DC and yet it’s the most avoided. Why does the city not want to make it easier for people to go there voluntarily? Why are you hoping to save it through compulsion? And it’s not just suburban commuters. They highest WFH % in the country is Ward 1 DC. Turns out not even the urbanists want to go experience the vibrant urban core of the city. No wonder you spend your time advocating bike lanes so that you can bypass what you clearly detest. Who could blame you.

If you WFH in Ward 1 you can just walk outside your door to find urban amenities. Your argument makes zero sense. Because people who live in Ward 1 work from home and don't want to commute to work that means they don't want to experience urban amenities? They don't need to go to another Ward to experience them.

It demonstrates that the people in Ward 1 also detest the more dense built environment of the downtown urban core as people from the suburbs. If you don’t even want to walk 15 minutes to visit, imagine someone thinking about coming in with a car now that DDOT has intentionally throttled traffic. You don’t see your own contradictions, which is funny.

No one “visits” office buildings just for the fun of it! It doesn’t matter where they live. It has nothing to do with what the streets are like nearby. It’s because they’re office buildings. Plenty of people are going out to nightlife, restaurants, etc., which presumably also involves traversing the bombed out rubble of the streets that are littered with (shudder) bike lanes.

For a moment I thought you were serious. That's pretty funny!

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I’m not following this argument. Because people who live in Adams Morgan aren’t going out at night to Metro Center, that proves that bike lanes are bad?

These arguments get real stupid real quick.

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Bike ridership is actually dropping. It’s because of Uber and enhanced bus service.

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Anonymous wrote:Bike ridership is actually dropping. It’s because of Uber and enhanced bus service.

LOL. Uber prices are up and bus service isn't so you're 100% in fabrication mode.

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Anonymous wrote:Still don't understand why bicyclists aren't required to wear helmets, or why they're allowed to put small children on bikes without helmets. If those kids were in cars, they'd be required to wear seat belts or be in car seats...

I mean, I'll care about this when the city actually does something about reciprocity with crappy drivers from M/VA, actually starts traffic enforcement for people who run stop signs and red lights without any enforcement (literally in front of police cars and nothing happens).

Or, actually puts in a crosswalk at one intersection in my neighborhood that we've been advocating for for a decade and it never happens.

You seriously MUST live in rich real estate if this is what is most top of mind to you to complain about. Just admit it. Take a drive to other parts of the city and tell me if bike helmets are really the bigger concern in terms of road safety.

Wow. It going to take an awful lot for you to start caring about the safety of small children.

I do. I have two of them myself. It's why I like safe road design, especially when I live in parts of the city that have crappy road design and it takes a decade of advocating for a simple crosswalk whereas those in the rich areas get one fairly quickly. Especially when safe road design also prevents criminals from barreling through neighborhoods shooting guns at a million miles per hour as we've actually dealt with.

You still didn't admit you live in rich NW where you aren't even dealing with much crime and your roads are designed better anyways, and having $$ has meant you got 311 requests more quickly and efficiently. It's ok. Just be honest.

You make a lot of weird assumptions. Also, don't you have anything better to do? It sounds like you spend your entire day on this stupid web site just waiting to jump down the throat of anyone who isn't into bicycles.

Well that confirms my assumption because you won't deny it. I assume you have to live in NW if bicyclists annoy you more than cars. You don't actually experience the day to day nuisance of bad road design. You don't experience things like criminals flying down your one way street the wrong way while you're trying to get your kids into the car (hey, no one died! I shouldn't care, right? I should care about the bicyclists, right!). You don't experience drivers running the red light at the end of your street At. Least. Once. Every. Single. Week. when you have the green and are turning left with your kids in the car. You don't even experience much of the crime you are pretending to be so concerned about while here in a forum about the bike lobby advocating for safer streets.

Also, apparently you don't have anything better to do either, you're here too?

I think the bolded seems to be what people are either obtusely or deliberately missing here. Safe street design isn't just to prevent people from dying or getting hit. There are so many close calls that never get reported and aren't in any statistics that still make it dangerous or unpleasant to walk or bike places in the city. If someone blows a stop sign and almost hits my kids that isn't going to be in a police report but it still has an effect on my day. It means I might be less likely to let my ten year old walk home so then I have to drive him.

There are people on this site who see to say that if people don't die then we shouldn't need to make changes to the street. That is fine if that is your position but know that other advocate for safe streets so that we can have higher quality of life, which for us includes walking or biking places. If that means that a person in a car gets someone five minutes later, I truly do not care. (and if it means that when I drive somewhere I get to my destination five minutes slower then I am all for it if it means that kids can cross streets safely). Transit isn't solely about getting people to their destinations as fast as possible while they re sitting in climate controlled, cushy metal boxes. There are other people who have different preferences than you and we are absolutely going to continue to advocate for them.

Or maybe you should just be more careful? You live in a big city, one of the most densely populated in North America. There's lots of people moving around and sh*t is going to happen. You'd probably be better off exercising a little common sense than putting all your hopes in a doomed-to-fail campaign to have the government try to engineer away accidents.

So you think it is ok to ask me and my children to be extremely careful (which we are, by the way) and not to ask drivers to be extremely careful? Drivers don't have to be aware of the fact that they are driving through densely populated areas but pedestrians do? Why the double standard?

Is yours just a "might makes right" argument that because someone chooses to drive a deadly vehicle then everyone has to get out of his way? This is WHY the streets need to be re-engineered. If there is a bollard in your way as you make a turn that slows you down or a speed bump or other traffic calming then you can't bully pedestrians as you run a stop sign.

Watch any intersection where there is a crosswalk and no stop sign or signal. Pedestrians legally have the right of way but they wait until cars full stop or there is no traffic (IOW they are being careful) because drivers are unable or unwilling to drive carefully and yield to the party that has the legal right of way.

Drivers are careful. People in this city probably take close to a billion car trips a year, and yet the number of people involved in accidents is tiny. That doesn't just happen unless people are trying to avoid running into each other. For those who aren't careful, we already have lots and lots of penalties (including sending them to prison).

There are over 3 billion VMT on DC roads each year. Annual car trips by DC residents (excluding MD and VA drivers) are estimated around 2.5 million. Accidents on DC roads are very rare and DC is one of the safest cities in the US for vehicle accidents.

Sure. And mass shootings are rare and devastating. But I'd also like more done to prevent them. Same concept. "These things are rare. Thoughts and prayers."

The issue is diminishing returns. Most people don't think it's worth spending billions of dollars and ruining traffic for hundreds of thousands of people so that we can reduce the number of traffic deaths from 24 to 22. The city has more important things to do.

It isn't just traffic deaths. It is injury, repairs to auto, maintenance on roads, pollution and corresponding health externalities as well as cost savings when more people are walking and biking.

More people aren't going to walk or bike. They'll just drive elsewhere. They'll avoid neighborhoods that are too hard to get to or they'll take side streets instead of main arteries designed for lots of traffic or they'll just sit in traffic longer.

You can see this happening downtown. The city conveniently used the pandemic to put bike lanes everywhere and now it's just really hard to get around. Not surprisingly, a lot fewer people are going downtown. It's not the only reason downtown is dying. But it's a big one.

The goal was to make it harder to drive so less people drive. The assumption was that if they don’t drive they would still come downtown but on bikes or transit. The reality is that they are just going somewhere else instead. In the meantime, retail vacancy in downtown is 20% and rising. One out of every five storefronts are vacant.

You are just making up bike lanes as a reason for decreased occupancy downtown. Sorry, that's not the reason.

I said nothing about bike lanes. There is nothing that I said that was inaccurate. This is “traffic calming”. Funny that you want to run away from and not defend your own agenda when its negative impacts are clear. If you reduce road capacity, the traffic does not magically disappear. It just goes somewhere else.

The reason that there are so many vacant storefronts downtown is that people are not coming back to work in large numbers. One reason why many people are choosing not to come back downtown is that DC had intentionally made it difficult to navigate with a car. That should be considered a policy victory. Right? I guess you don’t like the consequences.

Well at least you can now ride your bikes faster past those blighted downtown areas to reach your vibrant urban destination.

The main reason people are not coming back to work downtown in large numbers is that the federal government hasn't required it yet, and many other large employers haven't, either. Not because driving got harder.

If urbanism is so great, why are people not going back downtown on their own to enjoy the vibrancy? Why would they need to be forced? In the meantime, the city has made it less convenient for people who would otherwise choose to venture downtown voluntarily as a matter of policy. This is the expected result.

There are other urban parts of DC that are not downtown.

But downtown is definitionally the most urban part of DC and yet it’s the most avoided. Why does the city not want to make it easier for people to go there voluntarily? Why are you hoping to save it through compulsion? And it’s not just suburban commuters. They highest WFH % in the country is Ward 1 DC. Turns out not even the urbanists want to go experience the vibrant urban core of the city. No wonder you spend your time advocating bike lanes so that you can bypass what you clearly detest. Who could blame you.

If you WFH in Ward 1 you can just walk outside your door to find urban amenities. Your argument makes zero sense. Because people who live in Ward 1 work from home and don't want to commute to work that means they don't want to experience urban amenities? They don't need to go to another Ward to experience them.

You seem to lack basic logical faculties, which explains a lot.

No, PP is right: Ward 1 IS the "vibrant urban core of the city," not downtown. And the fact that people are working from home in Ward 1 still doesn't prove that the reason they're doing it is because there are bike lanes or traffic calming measures 10 blocks south of them -- it's because no one, in any city, is going back to their office any more than their employers are requiring.

So the vibrant urban core of the city is “gentle density”? LOL!

You thought the 'vibrant urban core' should overlap with a business district of office buildings?

When the CBD is not the “urban core”. LOL. You people are so funny. Do you ever listen to yourself?

https://www.newgeography.com/content/004453-urban-cores-core-cities-and-principal-cities
"Urban cores are defined as areas that have high population densities (7,500 or per square mile or 2,900 per square kilometer or more) and high transit, walking and cycling work trip market shares (20 percent or more). Urban cores also include non-exurban sectors with median house construction dates of 1945 or before. "

So no, office buildings are not supposed to be a vibrant urban core. Ward 1 is.

OMG, ya’ll are good for laughs. The Village of Friendship Heights, MD has a population density of 90,000 people per square mile. I guess that makes it the most urban core of the whole region?

Please stop embarrassing yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Bike ridership is actually dropping. It’s because of Uber and enhanced bus service.

LOL. Uber prices are up and bus service isn't so you're 100% in fabrication mode.

DP here but higher Uber prices actually proves the point that demand for Uber rider is increasing. Do you not understand the pricing algorithm? LOL.

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When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

I used to go out in Georgetown, U St, Adams Morgan, Dupont. Rarely by metro center/Chinatown but if we were seeing a show or game. I used to work in Georgetown, Dupont, did classes at Georgetown, even after moving to Capitol Hill then moving farther out in NE where I could afford a home. In any of these situations, I did not drive to get to these places because I viewed going to them similar to going into NYC. None of my friends drove to downtown. Not worth the headache so you either take the metro or cab/uber. Especially if you are going out and know you'll be drinking.

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

I’m not following the point about “gentle density.” There are a number of different entertainment districts in DC that don’t seem to have much to do with density. Downtown for games and theater and fine dining. U street for bars/clubs. Navy Yard for baseball and waterfront dining.

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

Strange how Navy Yard is booming with increasing density and yes … bike lanes!

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

Strange how Navy Yard is booming with increasing density and yes … bike lanes!

Bless your heart that you think Navy Yard is booming because of bike lanes. LOL!

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

Strange how Navy Yard is booming with increasing density and yes … bike lanes!

Bless your heart that you think Navy Yard is booming because of bike lanes. LOL!

Well your argument seems to be that bikelanes destroy commerce and make people run away shrieking. Whereas Navy Yard (and now the Wharf)
is the perfect example of density with transit being a new focus of growth in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

Strange how Navy Yard is booming with increasing density and yes … bike lanes!

Living by the Anacostia river trail in NE, Navy yard is fantastic as you can pretty much follow the trail there. It's the one place I, a non biker, actually bike to a couple times a year. Navy Yard in general is also more family friendly (another reason I no longer go downtown as when we go somewhere, we often have kids with us).

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Anonymous wrote:When did people go downtown for fun even before the pandemic? If I went downtown, I found a way to get there that didn't involve driving myself into the heart of downtown. But downtown was never "the place to be" even 5 years ago. Unless you worked there and went out somewhere after work, I guess but fewer people go into offices everyday anymore after the pandemic no matter where they work. There's a complete cultural shift in terms of being required to go to work.

So you never preferred to venture into the most urbanized part of city and instead preferred your gentle density neighborhood instead? That tells its own story.

However, there was once a time when downtown included quality shopping, restaurants and nightlife. That’s dead now and the city is really ensuring that it never comes back.

Strange how Navy Yard is booming with increasing density and yes … bike lanes!

Living by the Anacostia river trail in NE, Navy yard is fantastic as you can pretty much follow the trail there. It's the one place I, a non biker, actually bike to a couple times a year. Navy Yard in general is also more family friendly (another reason I no longer go downtown as when we go somewhere, we often have kids with us).

Yep. And the streets are designed to keep traffic pretty slow and calm (apart from M street). Big destination for biking.