Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one said anything about your stupid bike lane. Your funeral.

I said traffic calming measures are stupid.

This is easy. One sidewalk for bikes, one for people, one or no lanes for parking, cars zoom, all is well.

This is what we are getting.

The outer sidewalk is for people on both sides of CT Ave.
The inner sidewalk, or bike lane, is for people on bikes and scooters;
The inner most area, 4 lanes, are for cars.

Thanks for agreeing.

I’m not agreeing. Bike lane takes out a sidewalk not a car lane.

Why should pedestrians experience and space be degraded so you can park your car?

[Anonymous]

I half expect to soon read on here someone calling for the deployment of the National Guard to stop cyclists running stop signs. Y’all need to get a grip.

[Anonymous]

Congress!
Use the sidewalk to delineate a bike path. They’ve done it in Europe. No traffic calming in a major artery. What idiocy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congress!
Use the sidewalk to delineate a bike path. They’ve done it in Europe. No traffic calming in a major artery. What idiocy!

Use the road to delineate a bike path. They've done it in Europe AND in the US! And in other parts of the world as well!

(I've been wondering how this PP thinks people are supposed to reach the stores and homes on the side of the street that doesn't have a sidewalk, in this plan to have a sidewalk only on one side of Connecticut Avenue...)

[Anonymous]

You don’t remove the sidewalk, you draw a bike lane on it. The sidewalk is massive. At any given time the Ave is full of cars, and there are like 3 pedestrians per mile max

How are people in Geneva and Amsterdam and Berlin accessing shops? Just fine.

This is a non issue that people are too partisan and dumb to solve imaginatively.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t remove the sidewalk, you draw a bike lane on it. The sidewalk is massive. At any given time the Ave is full of cars, and there are like 3 pedestrians per mile max

How are people in Geneva and Amsterdam and Berlin accessing shops? Just fine.

This is a non issue that people are too partisan and dumb to solve imaginatively.

Ah. So, it's actually not a bike lane, it's a sidewalk.

There certainly is a lack of imagination going on here, that part is true.

[Anonymous]

Who needs a full lane for a bike lane? That’s absurd. I see a biker every 3 days. A walker every mile. You’re just loud and obnoxious and pretend you know how to cycle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who needs a full lane for a bike lane? That’s absurd. I see a biker every 3 days. A walker every mile. You’re just loud and obnoxious and pretend you know how to cycle.

How to win friends and influence people

[Anonymous]

Just calling the emperor naked.
Learn the rules to cycling. I cycle and am appalled by a majority of cyclists’ ignorance or arrogance in not behaving according to the road rules. I’d also rather cycle in a designated narrow labs on each massive sidewalk so I’m not endangered by the cars or pretend-can-cycle MAMILs (middle aged men in lycra).
We drive DC so don’t want any further traffic calming on a road which is a major artery with tons of traffic lights that takes 45 minutes of gridlock to get anywhere in a rush hour before Matt Frumin further cocks up everything for everyone (Matt go deal with crime in Ward 3 and the national embarrassment you all have created for this city; a whole hunch if cars were broken into last night and contractors won’t come to your ward any longer).

[Anonymous]

“Lanes” not labs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who needs a full lane for a bike lane? That’s absurd. I see a biker every 3 days. A walker every mile. You’re just loud and obnoxious and pretend you know how to cycle.

It is roughly half a car lane for a bike lane. The opponents are once again engaging in hyperbole and half-truths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who needs a full lane for a bike lane? That’s absurd. I see a biker every 3 days. A walker every mile. You’re just loud and obnoxious and pretend you know how to cycle.

It is roughly half a car lane for a bike lane. The opponents are once again engaging in hyperbole and half-truths.

How many cyclists? It doesn’t matter because we should encourage responsible cycling (not what passes for it when men hit a make menopause). We are blessed with a huge sidewalk. Today there were no walkers, none. Share the sidewalk, land on the edge on each corner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just calling the emperor naked.
Learn the rules to cycling. I cycle and am appalled by a majority of cyclists’ ignorance or arrogance in not behaving according to the road rules. I’d also rather cycle in a designated narrow labs on each massive sidewalk so I’m not endangered by the cars or pretend-can-cycle MAMILs (middle aged men in lycra).
We drive DC so don’t want any further traffic calming on a road which is a major artery with tons of traffic lights that takes 45 minutes of gridlock to get anywhere in a rush hour before Matt Frumin further cocks up everything for everyone (Matt go deal with crime in Ward 3 and the national embarrassment you all have created for this city; a whole hunch if cars were broken into last night and contractors won’t come to your ward any longer).

You are pulling quite the GOP stain there., Frumin has been in office for a few weeks, and yet the crime issue is all his fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who needs a full lane for a bike lane? That’s absurd. I see a biker every 3 days. A walker every mile. You’re just loud and obnoxious and pretend you know how to cycle.

It is roughly half a car lane for a bike lane. The opponents are once again engaging in hyperbole and half-truths.

How many cyclists? It doesn’t matter because we should encourage responsible cycling (not what passes for it when men hit a make menopause). We are blessed with a huge sidewalk. Today there were no walkers, none. Share the sidewalk, land on the edge on each corner.

And yet, the pedestrians rightfully don't feel safe with cyclists on the sidewalks. Given the use of sidewalks for strollers, wheelchairs, walkers, canes, little kids, older people etc, it seems like the better solution is to havae a dedicated area for bikes, just like there is a dedicated area for cars, buses and trucks.

[Anonymous]

One way lanes edging each sidewalk. Everyone happy and safe, no traffic calming needed.