Let's look at some of the goofy things Bowser wants to spend our tax dollars on

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Anonymous wrote:DC is putting in bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, one in each direction. While this may seem like an attractive idea, the rush hour carrying capacity of Conn. Ave. will be cut from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes. DC just assumes that the traffic will just go away, or maybe MD commuters will all switch to those little Lime scooters. More likely, Connecticut will be gridlocked several hours a day, with more traffic diverting onto Reno Rd, Porter St., etc. trying to find a way to or from downtown. Nice.

Poor Upper NW and MD drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

We need to plan for where the traffic will be diverted, I am thinking os much of the drivers, but of the kids who walk along Reno/34th Street to Much, Hearst, Eaton and several other schools. I'm thinking of people who cross or ride their bikes on Albemarle or Porter, and the folks who live on narrow streets who will find that Waze is diverting commuters all the time from the gridlocked Connecticut arterial. What about their safety? Slogans and wishful thinking are no substitute for real traffic planning.

I'm old enough to remember the Safe Streets program, when the city said some neighborhood streets should be all-but-closed to car traffic because it said traffic belongs on major roads designed to handle lots of cars. (The public hated the Safe Streets program and it was mercifully ended).

Now the city wants to do the opposite. Cut the capacity of major roads to handle traffic, in order to accommodate, a handful of cyclists, which of course will force all those cars onto previously quiet neighborhood streets that were never intended to handle so much traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:$9.4 million to buy 170 new speed cameras, despite D.C. already having the largest police force on a per capita basis in the county.

What if we had all the cops....enforce traffic laws?

(Googles "how to defeat traffic cameras")

Turns out it's easy to defeat traffic cameras.

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It would be nice if DC re-striped the crosswalks near the DCPS that my kids attend. The crosswalks are so faded that drivers can't see them.

Drivers here don't respect crosswalks, painted or not.

We need many more raised crosswalks. Crosswalk on a speed bump basically.

Raised crosswalks are great. They should be at every intersection near a school and at many other locations. For folks in AU Park, there are several raised crosswalks on Van Ness St. near Turtle Park.

For years, the DC government has refused to consider traffic calming on streets that have a higher classification than "local." (Van Ness is in a higher "collector" category.). Raised crosswalks seem to be one measure that DDOT will install. Vision Zero should not mean "Action Zero." DC needs to install many more raised crosswalks and other devices to improve pedestrian safety, and to do it soon.

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Is there a line in the budget somewhere about stopping roving gangs of 14-year olds from driving ATVs down the middle of Georgia Avenue?

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Anonymous wrote:The cost per use of D.C.'s bike infrastructure must be astronomical.

The city must have spent many hundreds of millions of dollars on bike lanes, capital bikeshare, etc. How many people regularly ride in the city? 500? 1000?

It would be cheaper for the city to pay each of those people $10,000 to ride the bus (and paying them is probably the only way they'd agree to ride the bus).

D.C. has one of the highest poverty rates in the country. There are southern states with a smaller percentage of their people living under the poverty line. This money should be going to them.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a line in the budget somewhere about stopping roving gangs of 14-year olds from driving ATVs down the middle of Georgia Avenue?

No but we are going to spent millions on some consultancy firm to revisit the high school experience.

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It would be nice if DC re-striped the crosswalks near the DCPS that my kids attend. The crosswalks are so faded that drivers can't see them.

Drivers here don't respect crosswalks, painted or not.

We need many more raised crosswalks. Crosswalk on a speed bump basically.

Raised crosswalks are great. They should be at every intersection near a school and at many other locations. For folks in AU Park, there are several raised crosswalks on Van Ness St. near Turtle Park.

For years, the DC government has refused to consider traffic calming on streets that have a higher classification than "local." (Van Ness is in a higher "collector" category.). Raised crosswalks seem to be one measure that DDOT will install. Vision Zero should not mean "Action Zero." DC needs to install many more raised crosswalks and other devices to improve pedestrian safety, and to do it soon.

The streets in D.C. are quite safe. Maybe it's not a very smart idea to ride your bike on a major thoroughfare in a major city, but your mother (and common sense) could have told you that. But traffic deaths are rare, especially compared with the millions of car trips every week. We have many times as many people murdered every year as killed in D.C. Is there a "Murder Zero" plan?

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Anonymous wrote:Really expensive bike/pedestrian bridges!

$18.5 million to build one connecting RFK to Kingman Island

$21 million to build one connecting Barry Farm to the Anacostia Metro

For comparison, the Federal Highway Administration says such bridges normally cost between $1 million and $5 million

In theory arent these also for tourists and visitors?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a line in the budget somewhere about stopping roving gangs of 14-year olds from driving ATVs down the middle of Georgia Avenue?

The spandex crowd is at least as bad as the roving ATV gangs. The big difference is the spandex crowd is made up of lawyers and judges while of course the ATV crowd is poor black kids. Guess which group gets the green light to terrorize society?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a line in the budget somewhere about stopping roving gangs of 14-year olds from driving ATVs down the middle of Georgia Avenue?

Why not move ATVs to the bike lanes? There aren't many bikers to terrorize and would keep them out of traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a line in the budget somewhere about stopping roving gangs of 14-year olds from driving ATVs down the middle of Georgia Avenue?

The spandex crowd is at least as bad as the roving ATV gangs. The big difference is the spandex crowd is made up of lawyers and judges while of course the ATV crowd is poor black kids. Guess which group gets the green light to terrorize society?

God your "cyclists in spandex are a menace" schtick is getting old. I recognize you from so many threads already. No matter how many times you say it, it doesn't get any funnier or any more true.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a line in the budget somewhere about stopping roving gangs of 14-year olds from driving ATVs down the middle of Georgia Avenue?

The spandex crowd is at least as bad as the roving ATV gangs. The big difference is the spandex crowd is made up of lawyers and judges while of course the ATV crowd is poor black kids. Guess which group gets the green light to terrorize society?

God your "cyclists in spandex are a menace" schtick is getting old. I recognize you from so many threads already. No matter how many times you say it, it doesn't get any funnier or any more true.

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And quite honestly both your spandex group and the ATV riders get to ‘terrorize society’ because neither are prevent from breaking traffic laws, riding in the middle of the street or weaving in and out of traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a line in the budget somewhere about stopping roving gangs of 14-year olds from driving ATVs down the middle of Georgia Avenue?

The spandex crowd is at least as bad as the roving ATV gangs. The big difference is the spandex crowd is made up of lawyers and judges while of course the ATV crowd is poor black kids. Guess which group gets the green light to terrorize society?

Both of them?

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Anonymous wrote:DC is putting in bike lanes on Connecticut Avenue, one in each direction. While this may seem like an attractive idea, the rush hour carrying capacity of Conn. Ave. will be cut from 4 lanes down to 2 lanes. DC just assumes that the traffic will just go away, or maybe MD commuters will all switch to those little Lime scooters. More likely, Connecticut will be gridlocked several hours a day, with more traffic diverting onto Reno Rd, Porter St., etc. trying to find a way to or from downtown. Nice.

Poor Upper NW and MD drivers. Won't someone think of the drivers?

And Beach Drive and Rock Creek Park have been under construction for how long? And CT, Mass Av and Wisconsin too! While it takes China a week to build a hospital. Who’s on the public teat, Mayor?

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My 12 yr old knows that DC is too cold in the winters and too hot in the summers for most able-bodied people to bike comfortably for most of the year.