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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

He's an incumbent D.C. Council member. Odds are he'll be re-elected easily no matter what he says or does.

I’m not so sure about that. His Ward 3 For All plan does not align nicely with the upcoming DCPS boundary update process. He going to have to actually fight for his current constituents. I’m not sure he’s up for this fight. I think he’s the mark in this poker game and the other council members are going to eat his lunch and there will be many unhappy parents.

OMG. The irony of Frumin losing reelection due to education policy issues is so believable. If all Ward 3 kids do not end up with guaranteed seats in neighborhood schools this guy is cooked.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

He's an incumbent D.C. Council member. Odds are he'll be re-elected easily no matter what he says or does.

I’m not so sure about that. His Ward 3 For All plan does not align nicely with the upcoming DCPS boundary update process. He going to have to actually fight for his current constituents. I’m not sure he’s up for this fight. I think he’s the mark in this poker game and the other council members are going to eat his lunch and there will be many unhappy parents.

OMG. The irony of Frumin losing reelection due to education policy issues is so believable. If all Ward 3 kids do not end up with guaranteed seats in neighborhood schools this guy is cooked.

There has never been a way to realign boundaries, which is why it hasn't happened in decades, to get us in the mess we have now. Something has to give.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

He's an incumbent D.C. Council member. Odds are he'll be re-elected easily no matter what he says or does.

I’m not so sure about that. His Ward 3 For All plan does not align nicely with the upcoming DCPS boundary update process. He going to have to actually fight for his current constituents. I’m not sure he’s up for this fight. I think he’s the mark in this poker game and the other council members are going to eat his lunch and there will be many unhappy parents.

OMG. The irony of Frumin losing reelection due to education policy issues is so believable. If all Ward 3 kids do not end up with guaranteed seats in neighborhood schools this guy is cooked.

There has never been a way to realign boundaries, which is why it hasn't happened in decades, to get us in the mess we have now. Something has to give.

Correct. And CM Frumin is the stooge who will give it. Probably Lafayette. Maybe Hearst. But one of the Deal schools is going to get the axe on Matt’s watch. At least Ward 3 gets bike lanes and pickleball, though.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

It is good politics to "align with the clowns"

In the precincts that line Connecticut Avenue, Frumin outpolled Bike Lane opponent Krucoff by more than other precincts around the Ward.

Ergo it is the opponents of the bike lanes who are in the minority, deeply.

This is the problem with trying to make bike lanes into some kind of political litmus test. It just doesn’t work, because normal people do not have the same i investment in being anti-bike as the extremists on here. Nobody except the extremely fixated are single-issue bikelane voters.

I love the naïveté of the bike lane fanatics. Believing first that they are actually going to happen and second that the general election was a referendum on policy substance.

The Mayor just inaugurated the 9th St lanes and presented a budget with funds for bike lanes, traffic safety, etc. The idea that a handful of loud cranks completely scrapped DC’s Connecticut Ave traffic calming plan is just silly.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

He's an incumbent D.C. Council member. Odds are he'll be re-elected easily no matter what he says or does.

I’m not so sure about that. His Ward 3 For All plan does not align nicely with the upcoming DCPS boundary update process. He going to have to actually fight for his current constituents. I’m not sure he’s up for this fight. I think he’s the mark in this poker game and the other council members are going to eat his lunch and there will be many unhappy parents.

OMG. The irony of Frumin losing reelection due to education policy issues is so believable. If all Ward 3 kids do not end up with guaranteed seats in neighborhood schools this guy is cooked.

There has never been a way to realign boundaries, which is why it hasn't happened in decades, to get us in the mess we have now. Something has to give.

Correct. And CM Frumin is the stooge who will give it. Probably Lafayette. Maybe Hearst. But one of the Deal schools is going to get the axe on Matt’s watch. At least Ward 3 gets bike lanes and pickleball, though.

As you said, something has to give. It isn't Frumin's fault, it has been building for decades. But I am sure Eric Goulet will spend the next years ginning people up in his quest to be on the Council.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

He's an incumbent D.C. Council member. Odds are he'll be re-elected easily no matter what he says or does.

I’m not so sure about that. His Ward 3 For All plan does not align nicely with the upcoming DCPS boundary update process. He going to have to actually fight for his current constituents. I’m not sure he’s up for this fight. I think he’s the mark in this poker game and the other council members are going to eat his lunch and there will be many unhappy parents.

OMG. The irony of Frumin losing reelection due to education policy issues is so believable. If all Ward 3 kids do not end up with guaranteed seats in neighborhood schools this guy is cooked.

There has never been a way to realign boundaries, which is why it hasn't happened in decades, to get us in the mess we have now. Something has to give.

Correct. And CM Frumin is the stooge who will give it. Probably Lafayette. Maybe Hearst. But one of the Deal schools is going to get the axe on Matt’s watch. At least Ward 3 gets bike lanes and pickleball, though.

He did it to Eaton last time.

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He, who? Did what to Eaton?

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

It is good politics to "align with the clowns"

In the precincts that line Connecticut Avenue, Frumin outpolled Bike Lane opponent Krucoff by more than other precincts around the Ward.

Ergo it is the opponents of the bike lanes who are in the minority, deeply.

This is the problem with trying to make bike lanes into some kind of political litmus test. It just doesn’t work, because normal people do not have the same i investment in being anti-bike as the extremists on here. Nobody except the extremely fixated are single-issue bikelane voters.

I love the naïveté of the bike lane fanatics. Believing first that they are actually going to happen and second that the general election was a referendum on policy substance.

The Mayor just inaugurated the 9th St lanes and presented a budget with funds for bike lanes, traffic safety, etc. The idea that a handful of loud cranks completely scrapped DC’s Connecticut Ave traffic calming plan is just silly.

The budget does not have enough funds for the Connecticut Avenue bike lanes.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

It is good politics to "align with the clowns"

In the precincts that line Connecticut Avenue, Frumin outpolled Bike Lane opponent Krucoff by more than other precincts around the Ward.

Ergo it is the opponents of the bike lanes who are in the minority, deeply.

This is the problem with trying to make bike lanes into some kind of political litmus test. It just doesn’t work, because normal people do not have the same i investment in being anti-bike as the extremists on here. Nobody except the extremely fixated are single-issue bikelane voters.

I love the naïveté of the bike lane fanatics. Believing first that they are actually going to happen and second that the general election was a referendum on policy substance.

The Mayor just inaugurated the 9th St lanes and presented a budget with funds for bike lanes, traffic safety, etc. The idea that a handful of loud cranks completely scrapped DC’s Connecticut Ave traffic calming plan is just silly.

The budget does not have enough funds for the Connecticut Avenue bike lanes.

It’s a multi-year project. I don’t think all the funds have to be in this year’s budget. They are still in design phase.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

It is good politics to "align with the clowns"

In the precincts that line Connecticut Avenue, Frumin outpolled Bike Lane opponent Krucoff by more than other precincts around the Ward.

Ergo it is the opponents of the bike lanes who are in the minority, deeply.

This is the problem with trying to make bike lanes into some kind of political litmus test. It just doesn’t work, because normal people do not have the same i investment in being anti-bike as the extremists on here. Nobody except the extremely fixated are single-issue bikelane voters.

I love the naïveté of the bike lane fanatics. Believing first that they are actually going to happen and second that the general election was a referendum on policy substance.

The Mayor just inaugurated the 9th St lanes and presented a budget with funds for bike lanes, traffic safety, etc. The idea that a handful of loud cranks completely scrapped DC’s Connecticut Ave traffic calming plan is just silly.

The budget does not have enough funds for the Connecticut Avenue bike lanes.

It’s a multi-year project. I don’t think all the funds have to be in this year’s budget. They are still in design phase.

There won't be any funds in this year's budget, since the project construction won't begin in the next fiscal year. totally normal.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

It is good politics to "align with the clowns"

In the precincts that line Connecticut Avenue, Frumin outpolled Bike Lane opponent Krucoff by more than other precincts around the Ward.

Ergo it is the opponents of the bike lanes who are in the minority, deeply.

This is the problem with trying to make bike lanes into some kind of political litmus test. It just doesn’t work, because normal people do not have the same i investment in being anti-bike as the extremists on here. Nobody except the extremely fixated are single-issue bikelane voters.

I love the naïveté of the bike lane fanatics. Believing first that they are actually going to happen and second that the general election was a referendum on policy substance.

The Mayor just inaugurated the 9th St lanes and presented a budget with funds for bike lanes, traffic safety, etc. The idea that a handful of loud cranks completely scrapped DC’s Connecticut Ave traffic calming plan is just silly.

The budget does not have enough funds for the Connecticut Avenue bike lanes.

It’s a multi-year project. I don’t think all the funds have to be in this year’s budget. They are still in design phase.

There won't be any funds in this year's budget, since the project construction won't begin in the next fiscal year. totally normal.

Next year's budget situation is gonna be worse than this year's.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

It is good politics to "align with the clowns"

In the precincts that line Connecticut Avenue, Frumin outpolled Bike Lane opponent Krucoff by more than other precincts around the Ward.

Ergo it is the opponents of the bike lanes who are in the minority, deeply.

This is the problem with trying to make bike lanes into some kind of political litmus test. It just doesn’t work, because normal people do not have the same i investment in being anti-bike as the extremists on here. Nobody except the extremely fixated are single-issue bikelane voters.

I love the naïveté of the bike lane fanatics. Believing first that they are actually going to happen and second that the general election was a referendum on policy substance.

The Mayor just inaugurated the 9th St lanes and presented a budget with funds for bike lanes, traffic safety, etc. The idea that a handful of loud cranks completely scrapped DC’s Connecticut Ave traffic calming plan is just silly.

The budget does not have enough funds for the Connecticut Avenue bike lanes.

It’s a multi-year project. I don’t think all the funds have to be in this year’s budget. They are still in design phase.

There won't be any funds in this year's budget, since the project construction won't begin in the next fiscal year. totally normal.

Next year's budget situation is gonna be worse than this year's.

Exactly. And if we consider how budget processes work, the proposed $36 million this year for bike lanes is the baseline. The idea that they would increase the budget for bike lanes next FY in a declining recent environment doesn’t make sense. The cost will easily exceed $36 million. They will have to steal from the streetscape budget but there are already other projects in the pipeline, particularly for downtown that will need to be prioritized. Even if you put aside the optics of increases funding for bike lanes while decreasing funding for social services and focus on allocation of transportation funds. Would the city prioritize downtown DC streetscape infrastructure to support revival over neighborhood infrastructure in upper NW? I’m going to go with a yes. The only way I can see this getting funded before FY27 is if there is an upwelling of political support.

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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?

Seems like you're the one who's refusing to surrender when you've already lost, though.

Nice to know you think this is a game. But if you’re keeping score, what have you accomplished exactly? Seriously.

Did you notice how quickly the city was able to implement the end of rush hour parking restrictions without needing an extra 6 months of “study”.

If you don’t know how this thing is going to play out, then you’re quite naive.

DP. The bike lanes are happening. You can continue to whine about it if you like, but the only thing you're accomplishing is looking childish.

Your false confidence and bravado is fantastic.

DC just gave people more street parking full time on Connecticut Ave. they aren’t going to take that away for bike lanes. Y’all make me laugh. Not clear if you’re mendacious or naive but either way it’s very funny.

What’s even funnier is that the person most responsible for spearheading that change was Frumin, who has been conspicuous by his absence of saying anything about the DDOT plan to delay study for another six months. Not a single other CM has bothered to take up the cause even performatively. Just goes to show how quickly the politics of this issue has shifted. No CMs want to talk about bike lanes and the mayor wants to talk about road maintenance.

He may be a "nice guy" but he knows that his posturing as a left wing doofus was bs and he will revert to the mainstream of what Ward 3 wants.

He’s in a bad place politically because he’s aligned himself with the uber progressive ANCs that push policies that have clearly made Ward 3 less safe. He’s definitely going to get a primary from the center and if he tries to moderate his position he will get a primary from one of the socialists.

He’s certainly alienated businesses by aligning with these clowns. If he doesn’t do something substantive to win them back he’s done.

It is good politics to "align with the clowns"

In the precincts that line Connecticut Avenue, Frumin outpolled Bike Lane opponent Krucoff by more than other precincts around the Ward.

Ergo it is the opponents of the bike lanes who are in the minority, deeply.

This is the problem with trying to make bike lanes into some kind of political litmus test. It just doesn’t work, because normal people do not have the same i investment in being anti-bike as the extremists on here. Nobody except the extremely fixated are single-issue bikelane voters.

I love the naïveté of the bike lane fanatics. Believing first that they are actually going to happen and second that the general election was a referendum on policy substance.

The Mayor just inaugurated the 9th St lanes and presented a budget with funds for bike lanes, traffic safety, etc. The idea that a handful of loud cranks completely scrapped DC’s Connecticut Ave traffic calming plan is just silly.

The budget does not have enough funds for the Connecticut Avenue bike lanes.

It’s a multi-year project. I don’t think all the funds have to be in this year’s budget. They are still in design phase.

There won't be any funds in this year's budget, since the project construction won't begin in the next fiscal year. totally normal.

Next year's budget situation is gonna be worse than this year's.

Exactly. And if we consider how budget processes work, the proposed $36 million this year for bike lanes is the baseline. The idea that they would increase the budget for bike lanes next FY in a declining recent environment doesn’t make sense. The cost will easily exceed $36 million. They will have to steal from the streetscape budget but there are already other projects in the pipeline, particularly for downtown that will need to be prioritized. Even if you put aside the optics of increases funding for bike lanes while decreasing funding for social services and focus on allocation of transportation funds. Would the city prioritize downtown DC streetscape infrastructure to support revival over neighborhood infrastructure in upper NW? I’m going to go with a yes. The only way I can see this getting funded before FY27 is if there is an upwelling of political support.

DC commercial real estate is getting hammered and we can expect the CFO to announce greater deficits next spring. When 100+ small businesses tell the mayor this is a bad idea, she’s going to listen. There’s not much she can do in the short term to stem the crime wave, so she’s not going to double down on another poorly thought out progressive initiative.

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She can tell them it is a bad idea, but the evidence, other than their opinions, are contrary. When presented with facts and studies, the mayor relies on actual science, not the opinions that are erroneaous and based on "feelings" - we already had that with Trump and look at how that worked out.

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Anonymous wrote:She can tell them it is a bad idea, but the evidence, other than their opinions, are contrary. When presented with facts and studies, the mayor relies on actual science, not the opinions that are erroneaous and based on "feelings" - we already had that with Trump and look at how that worked out.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice….