D.C. needs to get a lot more car friendly
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Anonymous
I know for a fact that this is not true and actually quite hilariously wrong. But I will entertain this. Show me the bollards in these cities in outer, low density residential neighborhoods. Happy to be proven wrong. |
Anonymous
It’s an interesting juxtaposition from the aggressive request for the city to respond to and sanction drivers with lots of outstanding, unpaid tickets. As far as I understand this your prevailing attitude. - The city should make it an enforcement priority to get young, Black drivers off the road who wrack up thousands of dollars in tickets. - The city is helpless to do anything about elderly white drivers who are not capable of operating a vehicle safely. Seems like the obvious failure in both cases is a failure of DC DMV to properly regulate licensing, which is their job. The city maintaining a functional administrative state governing licensing would be the obvious remedy. |
Anonymous
It’s an interesting type of person who would be willing to lie about peoples deaths. |
Anonymous
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Oh look the city wants to make K Street a lot less car friendly and a lot more friendly towards cyclists and buses.
The city seems to assume that if they make driving and parking really, really hard, people will suddenly decide to ride the bus or ride a bike. Ha! What's actually going to happen, of course, is that fewer people will go downtown. Sorry businesses! The city's transportation policies seem to be built on a whole lot of wishful thinking. https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/04/07/dc-k-street-transitway/ |
Anonymous
Darn, I look forward to the congestion of K st when trying to shop at a downtown business. What in the world will I do now. |
Anonymous
You're in luck. The congestion is going to get a whole lot worse. |
Anonymous
Good to know! I'll either use the metro or a bike share or walk. So many options that are more efficient and better for the environment that I wouldn't have known about if you didn't post this. Thanks PP! |
Anonymous
If the city actually cared about the environment, they would make the subway useable again. The subway got more cars off the road, every day, that all the bike lanes will do in the next thousand years. |
Anonymous
The subway is very useable. It has longer wait times than I'd prefer, but compared to traffic and parking it's pretty much a dead heat time wise. |
Anonymous
The idea is to encourage people to use mass transit and bike. They are cleaner modes of movement and with better allocation of space, more time efficient as well. They are taking away street parking. There is plenty of private garage parking available on K Street. |
Anonymous
Obviously, that's what they're hoping. The reality though is that people will just go elsewhere if it's too hard to drive and park. Happens all the time. There are parts of the city like Georgetown that I haven't been to in many years because it's too hard to get around. |
Anonymous
The city...doesn't own and operate the subway. I think your ire should be directed to WMATA. |
Anonymous
What about the people who don’t live next to a metro station? I’m in Alexandria, can’t park at the metro, and it would take me 30+ minutes just to walk to the station. Add 20 minutes between trains and transfers to the next line. I’m looking at over an hour to get to work…or I could drive in 25 minutes. Your comment is tone-deaf for all the people that can’t afford to live in DC/walking distance of their offices and have core hours and responsibilities near their home, like picking up kids by a certain time. |
Anonymous
then they should find jobs closer to where they live. It’s not tone deaf, the city doesn’t need to the person you are describing up above. |
Anonymous
**doesn’t need to cater |