Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids - anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids - anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

Adults with kids can commute by bike. Kids ride the bus, or the bike commuter does so after the kids get dropped off, or they use a cargo bike to commute together.

[Anonymous]

Also, kids can use bike lanes. Like those two kids killed along Old Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids - anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

Really? I better tell the people I know who commute by bike and have kids. I don't know what the appropriate response is for them, though. Should they stop commuting by bike? Should they get rid of their kids?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids - anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

Can you explain who these small people living in my house are, then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids - anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

You clearly do not see the people riding with kids in cargo bikes, or people riding on a bike with their kid on a bike in tow. This happens a lot. Particularly in the areas around Eaton, Murch, Janney and Lafayette, at least that I see first hand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids -anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

You clearly do not see the people riding with kids in cargo bikes, or people riding on a bike with their kid on a bike in tow. This happens a lot. Particularly in the areas around Eaton, Murch, Janney and Lafayette, at least that I see first hand.

Like on the side streets and in the neighborhoods? The places where you are purposefully trying to increase traffic?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids -anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

You clearly do not see the people riding with kids in cargo bikes, or people riding on a bike with their kid on a bike in tow. This happens a lot. Particularly in the areas around Eaton, Murch, Janney and Lafayette, at least that I see first hand.

Like on the side streets and in the neighborhoods? The places where you are purposefully trying to increase traffic?

It's interesting how nobody seems to want more cars on "side streets and in the neighborhoods." But more bikes would be fine there, I guess? It's almost like cars have lots of bad effects on the public (for example, noise, air pollution, danger) that bikes don't have.

[Anonymous]

I just heard that CT bike lanes are officially on hold. Is that correct?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids -anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

You clearly do not see the people riding with kids in cargo bikes, or people riding on a bike with their kid on a bike in tow. This happens a lot. Particularly in the areas around Eaton, Murch, Janney and Lafayette, at least that I see first hand.

Like on the side streets and in the neighborhoods? The places where you are purposefully trying to increase traffic?

Fastest way to Murch from my house is straight down Conn Ave to the fire station and then bare right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just heard that CT bike lanes are officially on hold. Is that correct?

Not from what I heard, though the DDOT Director leaving may delay things a little.

[Anonymous]

This morning I saw the following on CT Ave:

A woman in a long skirt and wedge heels slowly pedaling a bike on the sidewalk headed northbound.

A guy riding northbound on the sidewalk.

Three guys riding southbound on the street.

A moped/Vespa driving northbound on the sidewalk!

From the moco line to the White House during rush hour.

Fwiw.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids -anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

You clearly do not see the people riding with kids in cargo bikes, or people riding on a bike with their kid on a bike in tow. This happens a lot. Particularly in the areas around Eaton, Murch, Janney and Lafayette, at least that I see first hand.

Like on the side streets and in the neighborhoods? The places where you are purposefully trying to increase traffic?

It's interesting how nobody seems to want more cars on "side streets and in the neighborhoods." But more bikes would be fine there, I guess? It's almost like cars have lots of bad effects on the public (for example, noise, air pollution, danger) that bikes don't have.

Cars are dangerous for pedestrians, residents and bicyclists. Cars, should be kept on major thoroughfares going into and out of the city. You want more bicycle and pedestrians to be on the side streets where residents can be impacted by traffic, congestion and pollution. So you want to keep the traffic, congestion and pollution in a channel going in and out rather than a delta that spreads out from the main thoroughfare. It is much safer for everyone to have cars in limited pathways and have the pedestrians and bicycles on the side streets.

Bicycles traveling on the main thoroughfare is a convenience for the bicyclists, but is not good for safety or traffic flow.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After reading the comments on the upzoning post here as well as on my neighborhood email list about the changes that have been approved for Connecticut Avenue, I'm frustrated that I wasn't aware that the city was considering such significant changes. Now that I know about it, I'm wondering if there is a chance the decision could be reversed or greatly modified? For those of us who are just now realizing what's planned and are very concerned about how the changes will affect daily life for nearby residents and for commuters trying to get downtown or to schools, what's the best way to ask to have the decision reconsidered? Straight to the Mayor? To City Council reps? Who are the decisionmakers that need to be reached? I'm not looking to debate the issue here. If the neighborhood email discussion is any model, it won't be productive. Instead I'm asking for direction on who you should talk to if you oppose the plan and whether it's too late to make any difference. Please no comments about how I should have known about it sooner. Over the past two years I've been keeping a small business going while trying to manage two kids under 6 during COVID and caring for a terminally ill parent. While I wish I could have been following local issues more closely, I couldn't until now.

Bike lanes are for single people with no kids -anyone with kids is not commuting on a bike

You clearly do not see the people riding with kids in cargo bikes, or people riding on a bike with their kid on a bike in tow. This happens a lot. Particularly in the areas around Eaton, Murch, Janney and Lafayette, at least that I see first hand.

Like on the side streets and in the neighborhoods? The places where you are purposefully trying to increase traffic?

It's interesting how nobody seems to want more cars on "side streets and in the neighborhoods." But more bikes would be fine there, I guess? It's almost like cars have lots of bad effects on the public (for example, noise, air pollution, danger) that bikes don't have.

Cars are dangerous for pedestrians, residents and bicyclists. Cars, should be kept on major thoroughfares going into and out of the city. You want more bicycle and pedestrians to be on the side streets where residents can be impacted by traffic, congestion and pollution. So you want to keep the traffic, congestion and pollution in a channel going in and out rather than a delta that spreads out from the main thoroughfare. It is much safer for everyone to have cars in limited pathways and have the pedestrians and bicycles on the side streets.

Bicycles traveling on the main thoroughfare is a convenience for the bicyclists, but is not good for safety or traffic flow.

There are pedestrians, residents, and bicyclists on major thoroughfares. If cars are dangerous for pedestrians, residents, and bicyclists (which I agree, they are), then cars also don't belong on major thoroughfares.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just heard that CT bike lanes are officially on hold. Is that correct?

Not from what I heard, though the DDOT Director leaving may delay things a little.

Connecticut Avenue bike lanes are on hold until 2027 at least. Option "C" stands for "Cancelled."