Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

Hello, I don’t think parking spots will be taken away by the project? But it certainly takes a certain kind of attitude to think you are entitled to park wherever you want *in a city.* It’s a city, not a mall.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

you drive to pick up a frozen lasagna from Vace? Really?

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Anonymous wrote:It's true. One of the bike advocates has been visiting businesses that signed the petition and explaining the business consequences of doing so. A few have opted to take their names off and stay neutral after those visits. Total strongman tactics.

Visiting businesses to explain that customers might not like the position the businesses have chosen to take publicly - that's "strongman tactics"?!

It is when the person doing it is in charge of their licensing. But I'm sure it was a"perfect phonecall".

ANC Commissioners are not "in charge" if licensing. And further, no one, even those ANC Commissioners, would vote against a renewal based on a position related to bike lanes. Stop being hyperbolic.

They’ve begun a coordinated effort to steer business away from these restaurants because they disagree on a campaign issue. That’s literally what they are literally doing. In plain sight.

DP -- that seems true, yes, and it's ill-considered, at best, but it's not the same as taking action against the businesses' liquor licenses over it. Even people who strongly support the bike lanes, like I do, would surely agree that would be a significant step well over the line of appropriate behavior for an ANC commissioner.

However, it's also true that -- while I think they should not try to take any official action against the businesses based on the businesses' position on bike lanes -- the ANC is not in charge of liquor licensing. If the ANC voted against a liquor license renewal on some pretextual reason in this case, it'd be pretty obvious, and there's a decent chance the city would ignore their recommendation, "great weight" notwithstanding.

Just because they could doesn't mean they would?

That logic doesn't fly in any harassment or extortion case and doubt you were saying that about the first impeachment of TFG. It's about the underlying power dynamic and that behavior, if true, most definitely crosses a major line.

In that case, for what it's worth, TFG did try to hold up implementation of aid approved for Ukraine unless Zelensky agreed to what he wanted. Plus, he had far more actual power over the matter than these ANC commissioners did.

Anyway, you appear to have missed me saying that even though I support the bike lanes, I would find acting against the business' liquor license to be wrong and that I find even this boycott to be a bad idea. At the end of the day, though, I do think ABRA would ignore what was obviously a bogus ANC resolution of disapproval of a liquor license here, so the businesses would not actually be harmed.

I don't have a problem with the concept of a boycott over this if it's not led by elected officials, to be clear — if people disagree with the public positions the businesses are taking, they're welcome not to do business there. Personally, I like all those restaurants, so I don't really care what they're saying about the bike lane proposal, which I also like. So I won't be joining any boycott.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

you drive to pick up a frozen lasagna from Vace? Really?

Yes in PP’s world they are entitled to drive to and park on a main urban thoroughfare, at rush hour, directly in front of a popular restaurant to pick up dinner to go.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

Hello, I don’t think parking spots will be taken away by the project? But it certainly takes a certain kind of attitude to think you are entitled to park wherever you want *in a city.* It’s a city, not a mall.

I don't think I'm entitled to parking or anything else. Just saying how the lack of parking might affect my behavior. Yes, sometimes I walk the mile to Vace's or other places on the strip, but I don't always do so if I'm in a rush and I never carry a big grocery order on foot. If parking goes away, I'm less likely to make those trips unless I have time to walk and the weather is good. That means a loss of business. Perhaps there are bikers who would balance out that loss of business. I can't speak to that.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

Hello, I don’t think parking spots will be taken away by the project? But it certainly takes a certain kind of attitude to think you are entitled to park wherever you want *in a city.* It’s a city, not a mall.

I don't think I'm entitled to parking or anything else. Just saying how the lack of parking might affect my behavior. Yes, sometimes I walk the mile to Vace's or other places on the strip, but I don't always do so if I'm in a rush and I never carry a big grocery order on foot. If parking goes away, I'm less likely to make those trips unless I have time to walk and the weather is good. That means a loss of business. Perhaps there are bikers who would balance out that loss of business. I can't speak to that.

As it is, one can almost never park on CT Ave during regular business hours because cars park there all day, and cannot also park during Rush Hour (or couldn't until recently) - so it is highly unlikely that being car dependent and going to the Cleveland Park strip with an eye to parking ON Connecticut Avenue each trip is simply highly an improbably low level of success.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

Hello, I don’t think parking spots will be taken away by the project? But it certainly takes a certain kind of attitude to think you are entitled to park wherever you want *in a city.* It’s a city, not a mall.

I don't think I'm entitled to parking or anything else. Just saying how the lack of parking might affect my behavior. Yes, sometimes I walk the mile to Vace's or other places on the strip, but I don't always do so if I'm in a rush and I never carry a big grocery order on foot. If parking goes away, I'm less likely to make those trips unless I have time to walk and the weather is good. That means a loss of business. Perhaps there are bikers who would balance out that loss of business. I can't speak to that.

As it is, one can almost never park on CT Ave during regular business hours because cars park there all day, and cannot also park during Rush Hour (or couldn't until recently) - so it is highly unlikely that being car dependent and going to the Cleveland Park strip with an eye to parking ON Connecticut Avenue each trip is simply highly an improbably low level of success.

Both pre- and post-COVID, I have always found it relatively easy to find a parking spot along the stretch of Connecticut in front of the Cleveland Park strip during the day and often at night as well, especially if I timed my arrival for the end of rush hour parking. I have three kids who often have to be in different places within short time spans of each other so I need to be as efficient as possible. I often pick up a prescription or dry cleaning, return books at the library, mail something at the post office, etc...on my way to or from dropping one of the kids off and find a spot on Connecticut to do that errand. It's rare that I can't find a space (although I don't bother trying on spring and summer weekends when there are big Zoo crowds).

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

OK, so go eat elsewhere. DC shouldn't base its transportation policy on your personal preferences.

Many DC restaurants depend on suburbanites for their business. Not enough DC residents. [DC's population is still below what it was in the 1950s, and DC is no longer growing.]

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If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

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People depend on cars more than they care to admit. My neighbor is a big bike lane advocate, and he drives his kids to school -- an easy half mile away - most days. I don't fault him for doing that (kids run late, life happens, etc . . . ) but I hate the hypocrisy.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

Hello, I don’t think parking spots will be taken away by the project? But it certainly takes a certain kind of attitude to think you are entitled to park wherever you want *in a city.* It’s a city, not a mall.

I don't think I'm entitled to parking or anything else. Just saying how the lack of parking might affect my behavior. Yes, sometimes I walk the mile to Vace's or other places on the strip, but I don't always do so if I'm in a rush and I never carry a big grocery order on foot. If parking goes away, I'm less likely to make those trips unless I have time to walk and the weather is good. That means a loss of business. Perhaps there are bikers who would balance out that loss of business. I can't speak to that.

As it is, one can almost never park on CT Ave during regular business hours because cars park there all day, and cannot also park during Rush Hour (or couldn't until recently) - so it is highly unlikely that being car dependent and going to the Cleveland Park strip with an eye to parking ON Connecticut Avenue each trip is simply highly an improbably low level of success.

Both pre- and post-COVID, I have always found it relatively easy to find a parking spot along the stretch of Connecticut in front of the Cleveland Park strip during the day and often at night as well, especially if I timed my arrival for the end of rush hour parking. I have three kids who often have to be in different places within short time spans of each other so I need to be as efficient as possible. I often pick up a prescription or dry cleaning, return books at the library, mail something at the post office, etc...on my way to or from dropping one of the kids off and find a spot on Connecticut to do that errand. It's rare that I can't find a space (although I don't bother trying on spring and summer weekends when there are big Zoo crowds).

I don’t think that parking is going to be removed - someone correct me if I am wrong n

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Anonymous wrote:People depend on cars more than they care to admit. My neighbor is a big bike lane advocate, and he drives his kids to school -- an easy half mile away - most days. I don't fault him for doing that (kids run late, life happens, etc . . . ) but I hate the hypocrisy.

It isn’t necessarily hypocritical to want better bike infrastructure and still drive, though. You can support bike lanes even if you never ride a bike. And of course, you can oppose bike lanes even if you frequently bike. Too many false binaries in this debate all around.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

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Anonymous wrote:My vote personally would be ban bikes on Connecticut but ban cars on Reno and make it bikes only.

You realize the whole point is not only accessing downtown but for internneighborhood mobility, right? I mean, how does one get to a place like Vace if they don't ride on Connecticut Avenue? And all those houses that have driveways on Reno Road, how will that work?

Well, you could bike to the corner of Connecticut and Macomb, lock your bike there, and then walk across the street to Vace. The houses on Reno with driveways are more of an issue, but at least some of them also seem to have alley access behind the house.

And here I thought the bike lanes were bad because they would make it harder for people to patronize the stores and restaurants on Connecticut Ave...

Exactly, the opposition, many of them Maryland residents, want to make it easier for their commute and harder for those of us who live here to patronize our commercial areas.

Not to be too pendantic but keeping things the way they are does not make anything easier or harder. It makes it the same.

There's just not enough demand to support such a radical experiment. Less than 1% bike on Connecticut. We're shutting down circulator routes to save $7 million because not enough people use them. But its ridership numbers are exponentially higher and its cost is multiples less than the bike lane idea. It makes no logical sense.

I and my family regularly eat at the restaurants along the Avenue in DC. If we can't drive and park, we are eating elsewhere. Pretty simple. I hear MD and VA have some good restaurants.

How often do you park on CT Ave proper? That is the real question. And I can say from decades of living in Ward 3 and supporting businesses on CT Ave, that I never park ON CT Ave to support those businesses.

I often walk to the Conn Ave strip for dinner, but I usually drive if I'm picking up takeout, buying groceries, buying lasagne from Vace's, and I almost always park on CT. I like to patronize local stores, but if I can't park, I'll have to drive elsewhere.

Hello, I don’t think parking spots will be taken away by the project? But it certainly takes a certain kind of attitude to think you are entitled to park wherever you want *in a city.* It’s a city, not a mall.

I don't think I'm entitled to parking or anything else. Just saying how the lack of parking might affect my behavior. Yes, sometimes I walk the mile to Vace's or other places on the strip, but I don't always do so if I'm in a rush and I never carry a big grocery order on foot. If parking goes away, I'm less likely to make those trips unless I have time to walk and the weather is good. That means a loss of business. Perhaps there are bikers who would balance out that loss of business. I can't speak to that.

As it is, one can almost never park on CT Ave during regular business hours because cars park there all day, and cannot also park during Rush Hour (or couldn't until recently) - so it is highly unlikely that being car dependent and going to the Cleveland Park strip with an eye to parking ON Connecticut Avenue each trip is simply highly an improbably low level of success.

Both pre- and post-COVID, I have always found it relatively easy to find a parking spot along the stretch of Connecticut in front of the Cleveland Park strip during the day and often at night as well, especially if I timed my arrival for the end of rush hour parking. I have three kids who often have to be in different places within short time spans of each other so I need to be as efficient as possible. I often pick up a prescription or dry cleaning, return books at the library, mail something at the post office, etc...on my way to or from dropping one of the kids off and find a spot on Connecticut to do that errand. It's rare that I can't find a space (although I don't bother trying on spring and summer weekends when there are big Zoo crowds).

The vast majority of ANC Commissioners don’t have kids and do not intend to have kids. They have no insight into your life and the challenges it takes to raise a family in DC. Frankly they don’t even care.

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Anonymous wrote:If the restaurants believe they can operate a business with only customers who live within a mile or two, then more power to them. I doubt that's the case, which is why most oppose eliminating parking in favor of bike lanes.

Each neighborhood commercial area is losing like 20 spaces. If the 20 businesses rely on those 20 spaces to make the diffrerrence in their bottom line, then they are running too fine a razor's edge for profitability. Most customers are walking, biking, metro-ing or parking on a side street.

Side street parking that is already tight and already causes people to circle. Combine that with the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets from removing traffic lanes and it gets even worse. Ironically the Uptown closing is a good thing for this plan because it reduces the amount of people circling for parking. The only way this plan works is if a bunch of businesses go belly up and the strip gets redeveloped to right size.