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Being an obsessive creep who lies about where a kid died four years ago is not really a super convincing pitch for bus lanes. |
5. That enormous increase in traffic on the secondary and tertiary streets of Ward 4, where a gazillion little kids live, will result in children being killed. |
Against bus lanes, you mean. But I agree that it is super creepy to obsessively insist that a child's death at Georgia Avenue/Kennedy Street has nothing to do with Georgia Avenue. |
honestly STOP. |
If that is sincerely your concern, then here's what you should do: ask DDOT for lots of speed humps and raised crosswalks on these streets. It sounds like those streets already aren't safe right now. |
^^^in fact I know the streets already aren't safe right now, but I'm guessing you are also against speed humps and raised crosswalks. If so, your priority isn't safety for children, it's convenience for drivers who don't want anybody or anything getting in their way. |
Why? The question is whether or not the proposed measures will do what you claim. You claim that there is no spill over traffic we claim that there is. You claim that reducing speed is all that matters. We claim that people don't speed during rush hour, that most of the accidents happen during rush hour, and that the changes will make things worse an ld will cause more accidents during rush hour. You pretend that none of that detail or context matters. Based on the existing streets where these ideas have been implemented the data quite clearly shows that they make things worse. But go on pretending that you live near Georgia and give a damn about any of this. The fact of the matter is that there have been more deaths and more accidents since DC started doing this. Physician heal thyself. And while we're at it, stop trying to cover for an obvious mental patient. There is no house with three plus trees in the front yard, a driveway, and an elementary school, synogogue and bubble tea shop near Georgia Ave |
Why? Because you don't like acknowledging that your dumbass ideas have killed people? Someone died on Kennedy Street because you pretended that there would be no impact to the surrounding streets when you turned 16th into a one lane road. |
Why? Because the streets are dangerous. You said so yourself. Speed humps and raised crosswalks will make those streets safer. Posting on this thread is not restricted to people who live on Georgia Avenue, or even people who live in the Georgia Avenue corridor. |
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As a general comment:
I *know* there are multiple posters on this thread who support bus lanes on Georgia Ave. I *think* there is only one poster who keeps insisting that the intersection of Georgia Ave and Kennedy Street is not Georgia Ave. |
Which still comes down to one simple question. Do these measures make things safer? The data says no, they make things worse. |
Tell me any location in DC with 3 plus trees in the front yard and a driveway near an elementary school all of which is near both a synogogue and a bubble tea shop |
Do speed humps and raised crosswalks make streets safer? Yes. |
what data? |
Posting on this thread is not restricted to people who live within the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Use of Georgia Avenue is also not restricted to people who live within the boundaries of the District of Columbia. |