Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that like DC streets, this thread is overrun by commuters, not actual DC residents.

What if they identify as residents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that like DC streets, this thread is overrun by commuters, not actual DC residents.

That’s because DC represents less than 10% of the region’s population — insignificant compared with MD and VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that like DC streets, this thread is overrun by commuters, not actual DC residents.

That’s because DC represents less than 10% of the region’s population — insignificant compared with MD and VA.

But DC isn't 90% MD and VA commuters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that like DC streets, this thread is overrun by commuters, not actual DC residents.

That’s because DC represents less than 10% of the region’s population — insignificant compared with MD and VA.

Then MD and VA should pay to maintain our roads, clear the streets of snow, etc.

Unless or until that happens, let us manage our own public space.

We do't come to your communities and tell you how things should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that like DC streets, this thread is overrun by commuters, not actual DC residents.

That’s because DC represents less than 10% of the region’s population — insignificant compared with MD and VA.

Then MD and VA should pay to maintain our roads, clear the streets of snow, etc.

Unless or until that happens, let us manage our own public space.

We do't come to your communities and tell you how things should be.

They do through Federal subsidies of DC, and through the DC businesses for which they work. No commuters, fewer DC businesses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that like DC streets, this thread is overrun by commuters, not actual DC residents.

That’s because DC represents less than 10% of the region’s population — insignificant compared with MD and VA.

Then MD and VA should pay to maintain our roads, clear the streets of snow, etc.

Unless or until that happens, let us manage our own public space.

We do't come to your communities and tell you how things should be.

They do through Federal subsidies of DC, and through the DC businesses for which they work. No commuters, fewer DC businesses.

No, that's not how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to me that like DC streets, this thread is overrun by commuters, not actual DC residents.

That’s because DC represents less than 10% of the region’s population — insignificant compared with MD and VA.

Then MD and VA should pay to maintain our roads, clear the streets of snow, etc.

Unless or until that happens, let us manage our own public space.

We do't come to your communities and tell you how things should be.

They do through Federal subsidies of DC, and through the DC businesses for which they work. No commuters, fewer DC businesses.

The "federal payment" to DC ended over 20 years ago, there are no more Federal Subsidies to DC.

Your whole response is total bunk.

[Anonymous]

"We are not Europe"

Europe was car-centric before it wasn't. There is no reason it cannot happen here, no matter how much the Boomers want to claim otherwise.

[Anonymous]

I remember a lot of European cities doing this starting in the 1970s - closing off their busy downtown districts to cars and making them bike/pedestrian/mass transit only. It significantly reduced congestion and made life in the city so much better.

[Anonymous]

Bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue will not happen for five years, if ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue will not happen for five years, if ever.

Someone read the press release from 2 weeks ago that said they would be completed in 2028 and did the math. Congratulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue will not happen for five years, if ever.

Someone read the press release from 2 weeks ago that said they would be completed in 2028 and did the math. Congratulations.

In 5 years most of these wacky ANC commissioners will have moved to their next city to ruin and the rest of us will be left to deal with this mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue will not happen for five years, if ever.

Someone read the press release from 2 weeks ago that said they would be completed in 2028 and did the math. Congratulations.

In 5 years most of these wacky ANC commissioners will have moved to their next city to ruin and the rest of us will be left to deal with this mess.

You do realize that this started in 2018 (which was two whole ANC panels ago). So that means that "wacky ANC commissioners" have been supporting it for the 2018-2020 term, the 2021-2022 term, and now also the 2023-2024 term. Odd that. Maybe the idea is popular since folks who support this continue to get elected and your idea isn't as popular as you think it is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue will not happen for five years, if ever.

Someone read the press release from 2 weeks ago that said they would be completed in 2028 and did the math. Congratulations.

In 5 years most of these wacky ANC commissioners will have moved to their next city to ruin and the rest of us will be left to deal with this mess.

You do realize that this started in 2018 (which was two whole ANC panels ago). So that means that "wacky ANC commissioners" have been supporting it for the 2018-2020 term, the 2021-2022 term, and now also the 2023-2024 term. Odd that. Maybe the idea is popular since folks who support this continue to get elected and your idea isn't as popular as you think it is?

I do not think the long-term trend in cities is towards more car-centrism. Either cities will become less car-centric, or there will stop being cities altogether because humanity cooked itself, or I suppose both.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully they are learning that being an ANC commissioner is not a policy making role. They can push though all the quick resolutions they want, but they can't bypass the policy/operational issues in doing so. The bike lane fiasco should be a lesson.