Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

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When you have to feed a family, get housing and school and realize these Councilpersons are in it for themselves and not the people and you’re not getting the same sweet deal

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Anonymous wrote:Go on Axios Twitter.
I think we want the same to an extent but disagree on how. I’d say it would be hubris not to listed to the people and to give more ammunition to the Congress.

Oh look, some guy from rural northern Georgia wants to be in charge of the DC police.

Yeah well FAFO

You got what you wanted and lost the support of the electorate too

The electorate who? The electorate supports the changes on Connecticut Avenue.

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah? Like the crime bill? That’s why there’s 200+ pages on this website.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah? Like the crime bill? That’s why there’s 200+ pages on this website.

As though number of pages on an anonymous internet message board were a reliable indicator of public opinion

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How about horribly misjudging the public opinion on the crime bill?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a 1 mile long world heritage site, not a major artery commuter road. In Germany and Sweden and most of the Europe, bike paths in the city center are on the pavements.

On the sidewalk in order to:

Provide bike paths everywhere
Make biking safer
Not choke off the traffic so people can get places
Not erase the parking so commerce can continue

Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenues are not interstate highways. They do serve as principal arterials/radial routes from the suburbs and the NW edge of Washington to the center of the city. In the 1960s/early 1970s, DC and the federal government planned to build more interstate highways through NW Washington, including an extension of I-270 through Tenleytown, Van Ness and Rock Creek Park; a highway from I-66 via a Three Sisters Bridge and through Georgetown; and an inner loop/beltway that would have roughly followed Military Road to Nebraska and then paralleled Wisconsin Avenue through Glover Archibold Park. Thankfully, these and other major highways were not built and substantial funds were added to build Metro. But Connecticut and Wisconsin serve as these radial routes today. Squeezing them significantly means that some other road, or roads, will have to serve this purpose (like Reno/34th St/Cleveland Ave., or Nebraska and Massachusetts Aves) and handle the capacity needs from traffic diversion.

Or, since more people are working from home or not commuting 5 days a week, the current road capacity is fine, as evidenced by the lack of impact the construction in Cleveland Park is having on "traffic"

Exactly. It's funny that the lesson PP would try to take from the decision not to completely ruin NW DC with car infrastructure in the 60s is that we should further allow car infrastructure to ruin NW DC.

Just wait boomer. The idiot DC council has just opened up the floodgates. Congresspeople live here. Police reform is next. Then they’ll come for your traffic calming crap and you’ll end up doing what I’ve been telling you which is safer and better for cyclists anyway

Your idea to put bike lanes on the sidewalks?

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Anonymous wrote:How about horribly misjudging the public opinion on the crime bill?

Stay on target, Gold Leader.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about horribly misjudging the public opinion on the crime bill?

let me blow your mind. I am both pro-bike lanes AND against the crime bill. Those two do not go together.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah? Like the crime bill? That’s why there’s 200+ pages on this website.

Like every viable candidate in a ward wide race supports them; the person who opposed them underperformed the winner in the precincts that abut CT Ave; virtually all of the ANC Commissioners on CT Ave support it and the mayor supports it.

That is near unanimity across multiple contested elections. If the people opposed to the bike lanes were such a political force, why did they get crushed in every election last summer and this past fall?

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Anonymous wrote:How about horribly misjudging the public opinion on the crime bill?

There is a whole 'nother thread on the topic, but the Dems are bad at this that they joined the GOP in opposing a bill that has tougher penalties for crimes than virtually every red state in the country.

Name a provision in the DC Crime bill that needs to be changed.

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Anonymous wrote:How about horribly misjudging the public opinion on the crime bill?

let me blow your mind. I am both pro-bike lanes AND against the crime bill. Those two do not go together.

Me too. I just think you’re not drawing the bike lanes in the correct place. It’s not a zero sum at all. And you’re making it that. Just like the Council did with the bill. Live and learn

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Anonymous wrote:How about horribly misjudging the public opinion on the crime bill?

There is a whole 'nother thread on the topic, but the Dems are bad at this that they joined the GOP in opposing a bill that has tougher penalties for crimes than virtually every red state in the country.

Name a provision in the DC Crime bill that needs to be changed.

Jury trials for misdemeanors
No minimums
High maximums

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Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah? Like the crime bill? That’s why there’s 200+ pages on this website.

Like every viable candidate in a ward wide race supports them; the person who opposed them underperformed the winner in the precincts that abut CT Ave; virtually all of the ANC Commissioners on CT Ave support it and the mayor supports it.

That is near unanimity across multiple contested elections. If the people opposed to the bike lanes were such a political force, why did they get crushed in every election last summer and this past fall?

Because we didn’t know any better back then. Since then it’s been an onslaught of crimes, and incompetence. So we were wrong sorry, we’ll do better the next election.

I used to not care at all about the local election; I would vote along the party line. But now my life is worse and worser and so o care. A lot

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How about horribly misjudging the public opinion on the crime bill?

There is a whole 'nother thread on the topic, but the Dems are bad at this that they joined the GOP in opposing a bill that has tougher penalties for crimes than virtually every red state in the country.

Name a provision in the DC Crime bill that needs to be changed.

Jury trials for misdemeanors
No minimums
High maximums

also the horrendous arrogance in calling out Biden and even Obama

Most Obama Dems will never again vote for anyone on this council

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Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah? Like the crime bill? That’s why there’s 200+ pages on this website.

Like every viable candidate in a ward wide race supports them; the person who opposed them underperformed the winner in the precincts that abut CT Ave; virtually all of the ANC Commissioners on CT Ave support it and the mayor supports it.

That is near unanimity across multiple contested elections. If the people opposed to the bike lanes were such a political force, why did they get crushed in every election last summer and this past fall?

Because we didn’t know any better back then. Since then it’s been an onslaught of crimes, and incompetence. So we were wrong sorry, we’ll do better the next election.

I used to not care at all about the local election; I would vote along the party line. But now my life is worse and worser and so o care. A lot

All the way back then, 4 months ago...