Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

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Anonymous wrote:Connecticut Ave is classified as a principal arterial, below that are minor arterials (reno, tilden, porter, military), collectors (macomb, woodley, van ness, albemarle), and local streets. Where would you suggest diverting the Connecticut Avenue traffic?

please refer to the DDOT studies that are publicly available and widely shared.

Oh, you would rather just raise disengenuous arguments one after another in the absence of facts?

that’s what I thought.

Why are you all always so unwilling to answer the simple questions?

Brah. The link has been posted ONE ZILLION TIMES. Not doing your work for you.

Ah yes, of course. The DDOT study says the traffic will be diverted onto the side streets mentioned and nonsensically claims a 1000% increase in bike use to reduce the numbers. It also claimed a substantial amount of diverted traffic will drive halfway around the beltway to GW Parkway.

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Anonymous wrote:If they do bike lanes, they should be in the center of the roads so elderly and mobility impaired people and families with small children and delivery and ride shares can access the curbs to access businesses.

Elderly people, mobility impaired people, and families with small children also use bike lanes. People in bike lanes also access businesses.

There's a good reason, extremely specific to Pennsylvania Avenue, for Pennsylvania Avenue having center bike lanes. In general, however, they're bad design.

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Reno can't handle any more traffic, and it is a narrow road with VERY narrow tree boxes (if any) and two elementary school playgrounds within 10 feet of the road's edge. How can you justify putting more vehicular traffic from Connecticut on that road? That is part of what DDOT proposed and it's unacceptable.

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Anonymous wrote:Connecticut Ave is classified as a principal arterial, below that are minor arterials (reno, tilden, porter, military), collectors (macomb, woodley, van ness, albemarle), and local streets. Where would you suggest diverting the Connecticut Avenue traffic?

please refer to the DDOT studies that are publicly available and widely shared.

Oh, you would rather just raise disengenuous arguments one after another in the absence of facts?

that’s what I thought.

Why are you all always so unwilling to answer the simple questions?

Brah. The link has been posted ONE ZILLION TIMES. Not doing your work for you.

Ah yes, of course. The DDOT study says the traffic will be diverted onto the side streets mentioned and nonsensically claims a 1000% increase in bike use to reduce the numbers. It also claimed a substantial amount of diverted traffic will drive halfway around the beltway to GW Parkway.

If you've already read the study, then you know the answer. The only remaining problem is that you don't like the answer. Nobody can solve that problem for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Connecticut Ave is classified as a principal arterial, below that are minor arterials (reno, tilden, porter, military), collectors (macomb, woodley, van ness, albemarle), and local streets. Where would you suggest diverting the Connecticut Avenue traffic?

please refer to the DDOT studies that are publicly available and widely shared.

Oh, you would rather just raise disengenuous arguments one after another in the absence of facts?

that’s what I thought.

Why are you all always so unwilling to answer the simple questions?

Brah. The link has been posted ONE ZILLION TIMES. Not doing your work for you.

Ah yes, of course. The DDOT study says the traffic will be diverted onto the side streets mentioned and nonsensically claims a 1000% increase in bike use to reduce the numbers. It also claimed a substantial amount of diverted traffic will drive halfway around the beltway to GW Parkway.

If you've already read the study, then you know the answer. The only remaining problem is that you don't like the answer. Nobody can solve that problem for you.

No, my problem is that it's a bad idea to do what it says it's going to do.

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And DDOTs numbers are wildly off in terms of how many people will switch from car to bike. They predicted something like 95%

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Anonymous wrote:And DDOTs numbers are wildly off in terms of how many people will switch from car to bike. They predicted something like 95%

no, DDOT did not predict that.

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Anonymous wrote:Connecticut Ave is classified as a principal arterial, below that are minor arterials (reno, tilden, porter, military), collectors (macomb, woodley, van ness, albemarle), and local streets. Where would you suggest diverting the Connecticut Avenue traffic?

please refer to the DDOT studies that are publicly available and widely shared.

Oh, you would rather just raise disengenuous arguments one after another in the absence of facts?

that’s what I thought.

Why are you all always so unwilling to answer the simple questions?

Brah. The link has been posted ONE ZILLION TIMES. Not doing your work for you.

Ah yes, of course. The DDOT study says the traffic will be diverted onto the side streets mentioned and nonsensically claims a 1000% increase in bike use to reduce the numbers. It also claimed a substantial amount of diverted traffic will drive halfway around the beltway to GW Parkway.

If you've already read the study, then you know the answer. The only remaining problem is that you don't like the answer. Nobody can solve that problem for you.

No, my problem is that it's a bad idea to do what it says it's going to do.

Right. Your problem is that you don't want bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue.

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Anonymous wrote:Connecticut Ave is classified as a principal arterial, below that are minor arterials (reno, tilden, porter, military), collectors (macomb, woodley, van ness, albemarle), and local streets. Where would you suggest diverting the Connecticut Avenue traffic?

please refer to the DDOT studies that are publicly available and widely shared.

Oh, you would rather just raise disengenuous arguments one after another in the absence of facts?

that’s what I thought.

Why are you all always so unwilling to answer the simple questions?

Brah. The link has been posted ONE ZILLION TIMES. Not doing your work for you.

Ah yes, of course. The DDOT study says the traffic will be diverted onto the side streets mentioned and nonsensically claims a 1000% increase in bike use to reduce the numbers. It also claimed a substantial amount of diverted traffic will drive halfway around the beltway to GW Parkway.

If you've already read the study, then you know the answer. The only remaining problem is that you don't like the answer. Nobody can solve that problem for you.

No, my problem is that it's a bad idea to do what it says it's going to do.

Right. Your problem is that you don't want bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue.

Yes, it's a bad idea. It is a waste of public money because there is no demand. It exacerbates preexisting parking problems. It reduces traffic capacity by 33%. It harms local businesses. It increases congestion and pollition. It decreases safety by diverting thousands of cars onto the side streets where children play and the schools are located. And it's being partially paid for by reducing public transit.

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Anonymous wrote:Connecticut Ave is classified as a principal arterial, below that are minor arterials (reno, tilden, porter, military), collectors (macomb, woodley, van ness, albemarle), and local streets. Where would you suggest diverting the Connecticut Avenue traffic?

please refer to the DDOT studies that are publicly available and widely shared.

Oh, you would rather just raise disengenuous arguments one after another in the absence of facts?

that’s what I thought.

Why are you all always so unwilling to answer the simple questions?

Brah. The link has been posted ONE ZILLION TIMES. Not doing your work for you.

Ah yes, of course. The DDOT study says the traffic will be diverted onto the side streets mentioned and nonsensically claims a 1000% increase in bike use to reduce the numbers. It also claimed a substantial amount of diverted traffic will drive halfway around the beltway to GW Parkway.

If you've already read the study, then you know the answer. The only remaining problem is that you don't like the answer. Nobody can solve that problem for you.

No, my problem is that it's a bad idea to do what it says it's going to do.

Right. Your problem is that you don't want bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue.

Yes, it's a bad idea. It is a waste of public money because there is no demand. It exacerbates preexisting parking problems. It reduces traffic capacity by 33%. It harms local businesses. It increases congestion and pollition. It decreases safety by diverting thousands of cars onto the side streets where children play and the schools are located. And it's being partially paid for by reducing public transit.

You just keep repeating yourself. Yes, you think it's a bad idea. It's going to happen anyway.

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because there's no reason that our neighborhoods should mostly be zoned only for $1 million-plus single family homes, especially near transit and commercial corridors.

No reason, really now? One reason off the top of my head is that SFH owners like me really like living in SFH neighborhoods! They're pretty, they have beautiful yards here in Ward 3. It's relatively quiet. We have big trees in our own yards, that play host to urban wildlife. Kids can play soccer in the backyard. I have a giant wraparound porch that isn't possible in a rowhouse or condo. We have big gardens in our big yards. We can pull up in front of our house and unload heavy groceries, animals coming home from the vet, an elderly relative ...

Did I mention it's quieter than Shaw?

There are very few poor people who've made poor life choices wandering on the streets. Or living on the streets. Our dogs have big green lush yards to play in. Many of us have pools and climbing structures. More flowering trees than in dense neighborhoods.

People who've made a lifetime of bad choices are priced out of the vicinity! So their drama doesn't spill over into our lives, much. Making Conn Ave the new Welfare Valley is changing that for those who live close to the Ave, though. Some of us prefer civility over diversity if forced to choose a type of neighbor you want.

Mostly, it's quieter, calmer, more lush and greener than DC's dense neighborhoods.

Believe it or not, changing the zoning in currently SFH-only neighborhoods would not mean your existing SFH with a giant porch has to suddenly turn into an apartment building! I like living in a house with a yard, too. But I don’t see how having a small apartment building or rowhouse nearby would be a problem. (Also, my SFH neighborhood has semi-detached row houses already.) Also, there’s no reason you need to cut down trees to build apartment buildings if the trees are, say, between the curb and the sidewalk, where a huge number of trees in Ward 3 already are. This isn’t about making you change your current life at all; it’s about making it possible for people to buy or rent a small apartment somewhere near you if they want to.

Did you just respond to yourself?

No, I responded to the person who objected to densifying Ward 3 because they like their current house.

I object to radical densification of Ward 3. A few more condos or apartment buildings along Connect, Mass, or Wisconsin would be fine. But reducing or eliminating or discouraging SFH is unnecessary and counterproductive. It will simply drive people out of DC. DC has lost population over the last several years, and DC has never recovered from the early 1950s when DC had roughly 800K residents. DC needs residents who can afford to buy SFHs. They are the tax base, and are why DC has thrived economically over the last few decades.

Data released earlier this week by the U.S. Census shows that D.C. took in 103,982 new residents between April 2010 and July 2019, growing by more than 17% over the decade — faster than any of the 50 states or Puerto Rico.

The data shows that in April 2010 there were 601,723 residents in the city. By July 2019, the population grew to 705,749. That’s higher than at any point since the 1970s, when D.C.’s population started a swift decline from its historic high of more than 800,000 residents in the 1950s. By 2000, there were just over 570,000 residents in the city.
https://wamu.org/story/20/01/03/d-c-added-100000-residents-over-the-last-decade-but-growth-is-slowing/

DC is forecasted to increase to 987,200 residents by 2045.

Come on. It does not help anyone to pretend that known outdated projections mean anything. 2019 was pre-pandemic and DC has not rebounded because of work from home. 2010-2019 was also an era of unprecedented economic growth spurred by 0% interest rates. Now we have 5% interest rates and a pending recession. Lastly that projection assumes the same rate of growth as 2010-2019 but growth is not linear and there are serious barriers to increased growth, among them the lack of quality secondary schools. 2023 is not 2019.

This is all correct. And it’s important to point out that the population growth rate has been slowing significantly over the past decade even prior to the pandemic. Slow and anemic population growth should already have been expected and anticipated.

yes and it’s all due to traffic calming! lol.

listen. there are definitely questions to ask about DDOT plans. But when anti-reform advocates (aka NIMBY) make absurd arguments and giant leaps of logic, you do nothing to convince anyone. unsafe streets are not going to reverse population declines.

Bike lanes are great, but is it the smartest concept to put one of the most major arterial routes between Maryland and downtown Washington on a "road diet" and significantly constrain vehicle capacity? The reality is that will divert thru-traffic to other north-side like Reno-34th and also flush more traffic through side streets like Albermarle, Porter, Macomb, etc. Is it really fair to dismiss and denigrate DC residents who live on those streets, whose kids walk and bike along them, as "anti-reform advocates" and NIMBYs?

It may be one of YOUR most major routes but there are many routes in. And yes, having a bike lane where the businesses are so the customers can safely access said businesses are seen by cities all over the world as a good thing. It is only CT Ave which is somehow so unique, that this is an issue.

It is hilarious to me that you are out here still posting generic talking points arguing about this like it matters. No one cares about your opinions. Not even the city. LOL.

Yes you’re right, the only way to run a city is to prioritize cars and never change anything.

Cry more. I am sure that will help.

Cry more?

We have a transportation paradigm and related allocation of public space based on urban planning models from 1955. It is clear the aut-based model is not sustainable and hasn't been for decades. Tome for a change, like all the other countries in the world have done. We need more sustainable transportation options and to get away from the single occupancy car dominating our public space - from a land use and mobility perspective. I get you don;t like change, but there is only so much public space, and with more people coming to the DC region, we have to do better to enable people to get around. Cars simply take up too much space to be efficient.

Several false assumptions here. First, DC is not growing. Second, DC still has fewer people than it did in the early 1950s. Third, DC white collar workers from the suburbs are no longer commuting into DC 5 days a week during rush hour. There is simply no need to change this allocation of public space. Lets not create a problem that does not exist.

Fewer people are commuting from the suburbs by car during weekday rush hours these days, therefore it's very important for DC to continue to prioritize people commuting from the suburbs by car during weekday rush hours!

Otherwise, those commuters stay home, which is not good for DC.

that's right, we have to create speedways and parking lots all over DC. otherwise the city will collapse.

No one is suggesting creating speedways. The Avenue has been a major entryway into DC for 100 years. The Avenues across DC were designed to be thruways.

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because there's no reason that our neighborhoods should mostly be zoned only for $1 million-plus single family homes, especially near transit and commercial corridors.

No reason, really now? One reason off the top of my head is that SFH owners like me really like living in SFH neighborhoods! They're pretty, they have beautiful yards here in Ward 3. It's relatively quiet. We have big trees in our own yards, that play host to urban wildlife. Kids can play soccer in the backyard. I have a giant wraparound porch that isn't possible in a rowhouse or condo. We have big gardens in our big yards. We can pull up in front of our house and unload heavy groceries, animals coming home from the vet, an elderly relative ...

Did I mention it's quieter than Shaw?

There are very few poor people who've made poor life choices wandering on the streets. Or living on the streets. Our dogs have big green lush yards to play in. Many of us have pools and climbing structures. More flowering trees than in dense neighborhoods.

People who've made a lifetime of bad choices are priced out of the vicinity! So their drama doesn't spill over into our lives, much. Making Conn Ave the new Welfare Valley is changing that for those who live close to the Ave, though. Some of us prefer civility over diversity if forced to choose a type of neighbor you want.

Mostly, it's quieter, calmer, more lush and greener than DC's dense neighborhoods.

Believe it or not, changing the zoning in currently SFH-only neighborhoods would not mean your existing SFH with a giant porch has to suddenly turn into an apartment building! I like living in a house with a yard, too. But I don’t see how having a small apartment building or rowhouse nearby would be a problem. (Also, my SFH neighborhood has semi-detached row houses already.) Also, there’s no reason you need to cut down trees to build apartment buildings if the trees are, say, between the curb and the sidewalk, where a huge number of trees in Ward 3 already are. This isn’t about making you change your current life at all; it’s about making it possible for people to buy or rent a small apartment somewhere near you if they want to.

Did you just respond to yourself?

No, I responded to the person who objected to densifying Ward 3 because they like their current house.

I object to radical densification of Ward 3. A few more condos or apartment buildings along Connect, Mass, or Wisconsin would be fine. But reducing or eliminating or discouraging SFH is unnecessary and counterproductive. It will simply drive people out of DC. DC has lost population over the last several years, and DC has never recovered from the early 1950s when DC had roughly 800K residents. DC needs residents who can afford to buy SFHs. They are the tax base, and are why DC has thrived economically over the last few decades.

Data released earlier this week by the U.S. Census shows that D.C. took in 103,982 new residents between April 2010 and July 2019, growing by more than 17% over the decade — faster than any of the 50 states or Puerto Rico.

The data shows that in April 2010 there were 601,723 residents in the city. By July 2019, the population grew to 705,749. That’s higher than at any point since the 1970s, when D.C.’s population started a swift decline from its historic high of more than 800,000 residents in the 1950s. By 2000, there were just over 570,000 residents in the city.
https://wamu.org/story/20/01/03/d-c-added-100000-residents-over-the-last-decade-but-growth-is-slowing/

DC is forecasted to increase to 987,200 residents by 2045.

Come on. It does not help anyone to pretend that known outdated projections mean anything. 2019 was pre-pandemic and DC has not rebounded because of work from home. 2010-2019 was also an era of unprecedented economic growth spurred by 0% interest rates. Now we have 5% interest rates and a pending recession. Lastly that projection assumes the same rate of growth as 2010-2019 but growth is not linear and there are serious barriers to increased growth, among them the lack of quality secondary schools. 2023 is not 2019.

This is all correct. And it’s important to point out that the population growth rate has been slowing significantly over the past decade even prior to the pandemic. Slow and anemic population growth should already have been expected and anticipated.

yes and it’s all due to traffic calming! lol.

listen. there are definitely questions to ask about DDOT plans. But when anti-reform advocates (aka NIMBY) make absurd arguments and giant leaps of logic, you do nothing to convince anyone. unsafe streets are not going to reverse population declines.

Bike lanes are great, but is it the smartest concept to put one of the most major arterial routes between Maryland and downtown Washington on a "road diet" and significantly constrain vehicle capacity? The reality is that will divert thru-traffic to other north-side like Reno-34th and also flush more traffic through side streets like Albermarle, Porter, Macomb, etc. Is it really fair to dismiss and denigrate DC residents who live on those streets, whose kids walk and bike along them, as "anti-reform advocates" and NIMBYs?

It may be one of YOUR most major routes but there are many routes in. And yes, having a bike lane where the businesses are so the customers can safely access said businesses are seen by cities all over the world as a good thing. It is only CT Ave which is somehow so unique, that this is an issue.

It is hilarious to me that you are out here still posting generic talking points arguing about this like it matters. No one cares about your opinions. Not even the city. LOL.

Yes you’re right, the only way to run a city is to prioritize cars and never change anything.

Cry more. I am sure that will help.

Cry more?

We have a transportation paradigm and related allocation of public space based on urban planning models from 1955. It is clear the aut-based model is not sustainable and hasn't been for decades. Tome for a change, like all the other countries in the world have done. We need more sustainable transportation options and to get away from the single occupancy car dominating our public space - from a land use and mobility perspective. I get you don;t like change, but there is only so much public space, and with more people coming to the DC region, we have to do better to enable people to get around. Cars simply take up too much space to be efficient.

Several false assumptions here. First, DC is not growing. Second, DC still has fewer people than it did in the early 1950s. Third, DC white collar workers from the suburbs are no longer commuting into DC 5 days a week during rush hour. There is simply no need to change this allocation of public space. Lets not create a problem that does not exist.

Fewer people are commuting from the suburbs by car during weekday rush hours these days, therefore it's very important for DC to continue to prioritize people commuting from the suburbs by car during weekday rush hours!

Otherwise, those commuters stay home, which is not good for DC.

that's right, we have to create speedways and parking lots all over DC. otherwise the city will collapse.

No one is suggesting creating speedways. The Avenue has been a major entryway into DC for 100 years. The Avenues across DC were designed to be thruways.

Well who says everything has to stay exactly the same and cannot be improved?

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because there's no reason that our neighborhoods should mostly be zoned only for $1 million-plus single family homes, especially near transit and commercial corridors.

No reason, really now? One reason off the top of my head is that SFH owners like me really like living in SFH neighborhoods! They're pretty, they have beautiful yards here in Ward 3. It's relatively quiet. We have big trees in our own yards, that play host to urban wildlife. Kids can play soccer in the backyard. I have a giant wraparound porch that isn't possible in a rowhouse or condo. We have big gardens in our big yards. We can pull up in front of our house and unload heavy groceries, animals coming home from the vet, an elderly relative ...

Did I mention it's quieter than Shaw?

There are very few poor people who've made poor life choices wandering on the streets. Or living on the streets. Our dogs have big green lush yards to play in. Many of us have pools and climbing structures. More flowering trees than in dense neighborhoods.

People who've made a lifetime of bad choices are priced out of the vicinity! So their drama doesn't spill over into our lives, much. Making Conn Ave the new Welfare Valley is changing that for those who live close to the Ave, though. Some of us prefer civility over diversity if forced to choose a type of neighbor you want.

Mostly, it's quieter, calmer, more lush and greener than DC's dense neighborhoods.

Believe it or not, changing the zoning in currently SFH-only neighborhoods would not mean your existing SFH with a giant porch has to suddenly turn into an apartment building! I like living in a house with a yard, too. But I don’t see how having a small apartment building or rowhouse nearby would be a problem. (Also, my SFH neighborhood has semi-detached row houses already.) Also, there’s no reason you need to cut down trees to build apartment buildings if the trees are, say, between the curb and the sidewalk, where a huge number of trees in Ward 3 already are. This isn’t about making you change your current life at all; it’s about making it possible for people to buy or rent a small apartment somewhere near you if they want to.

Did you just respond to yourself?

No, I responded to the person who objected to densifying Ward 3 because they like their current house.

I object to radical densification of Ward 3. A few more condos or apartment buildings along Connect, Mass, or Wisconsin would be fine. But reducing or eliminating or discouraging SFH is unnecessary and counterproductive. It will simply drive people out of DC. DC has lost population over the last several years, and DC has never recovered from the early 1950s when DC had roughly 800K residents. DC needs residents who can afford to buy SFHs. They are the tax base, and are why DC has thrived economically over the last few decades.

Data released earlier this week by the U.S. Census shows that D.C. took in 103,982 new residents between April 2010 and July 2019, growing by more than 17% over the decade — faster than any of the 50 states or Puerto Rico.

The data shows that in April 2010 there were 601,723 residents in the city. By July 2019, the population grew to 705,749. That’s higher than at any point since the 1970s, when D.C.’s population started a swift decline from its historic high of more than 800,000 residents in the 1950s. By 2000, there were just over 570,000 residents in the city.
https://wamu.org/story/20/01/03/d-c-added-100000-residents-over-the-last-decade-but-growth-is-slowing/

DC is forecasted to increase to 987,200 residents by 2045.

Come on. It does not help anyone to pretend that known outdated projections mean anything. 2019 was pre-pandemic and DC has not rebounded because of work from home. 2010-2019 was also an era of unprecedented economic growth spurred by 0% interest rates. Now we have 5% interest rates and a pending recession. Lastly that projection assumes the same rate of growth as 2010-2019 but growth is not linear and there are serious barriers to increased growth, among them the lack of quality secondary schools. 2023 is not 2019.

This is all correct. And it’s important to point out that the population growth rate has been slowing significantly over the past decade even prior to the pandemic. Slow and anemic population growth should already have been expected and anticipated.

yes and it’s all due to traffic calming! lol.

listen. there are definitely questions to ask about DDOT plans. But when anti-reform advocates (aka NIMBY) make absurd arguments and giant leaps of logic, you do nothing to convince anyone. unsafe streets are not going to reverse population declines.

Bike lanes are great, but is it the smartest concept to put one of the most major arterial routes between Maryland and downtown Washington on a "road diet" and significantly constrain vehicle capacity? The reality is that will divert thru-traffic to other north-side like Reno-34th and also flush more traffic through side streets like Albermarle, Porter, Macomb, etc. Is it really fair to dismiss and denigrate DC residents who live on those streets, whose kids walk and bike along them, as "anti-reform advocates" and NIMBYs?

It may be one of YOUR most major routes but there are many routes in. And yes, having a bike lane where the businesses are so the customers can safely access said businesses are seen by cities all over the world as a good thing. It is only CT Ave which is somehow so unique, that this is an issue.

It is hilarious to me that you are out here still posting generic talking points arguing about this like it matters. No one cares about your opinions. Not even the city. LOL.

Yes you’re right, the only way to run a city is to prioritize cars and never change anything.

Cry more. I am sure that will help.

Cry more?

We have a transportation paradigm and related allocation of public space based on urban planning models from 1955. It is clear the aut-based model is not sustainable and hasn't been for decades. Tome for a change, like all the other countries in the world have done. We need more sustainable transportation options and to get away from the single occupancy car dominating our public space - from a land use and mobility perspective. I get you don;t like change, but there is only so much public space, and with more people coming to the DC region, we have to do better to enable people to get around. Cars simply take up too much space to be efficient.

Several false assumptions here. First, DC is not growing. Second, DC still has fewer people than it did in the early 1950s. Third, DC white collar workers from the suburbs are no longer commuting into DC 5 days a week during rush hour. There is simply no need to change this allocation of public space. Lets not create a problem that does not exist.

Fewer people are commuting from the suburbs by car during weekday rush hours these days, therefore it's very important for DC to continue to prioritize people commuting from the suburbs by car during weekday rush hours!

Otherwise, those commuters stay home, which is not good for DC.

that's right, we have to create speedways and parking lots all over DC. otherwise the city will collapse.

No one is suggesting creating speedways. The Avenue has been a major entryway into DC for 100 years. The Avenues across DC were designed to be thruways.

They were not designed to be thruways for people driving cars. Bring back the streetcars!

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Keep crying weird cyclist person. You’re like one of those WWII Japanese soldier holdouts on a remote Pacific Island refusing to surrender when you’ve already lost. Maybe go outside a ride your bike?

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Anonymous wrote:Keep crying weird cyclist person. You’re like one of those WWII Japanese soldier holdouts on a remote Pacific Island refusing to surrender when you’ve already lost. Maybe go outside a ride your bike?

This weirdly personal.