Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

You know nothing about me. Yes, I own a business, yes, I meet a payroll, and yes, I have had my business adapt to changing technology and preferences. If I owned a vaccm cleaner repair shop, you better believe I would be doing just as I posted, because that is reality.

Pssst. Your white collar consultant business with a payroll of one is not a real business…

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

You know nothing about me. Yes, I own a business, yes, I meet a payroll, and yes, I have had my business adapt to changing technology and preferences. If I owned a vaccm cleaner repair shop, you better believe I would be doing just as I posted, because that is reality.

Pssst. Your white collar consultant business with a payroll of one is not a real business…

Again, you know nothing about me or my business, but suffice it to say, you have missed the mark.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

At least the business exists unlike the phantom proliferation of cyclists that the bike lobbying keeps promising will come if only we had bike lanes. They didn't come when the Rock Creek park bike lanes came. They didn't come when the city bikes came. They didn't come when Reno Road bike lanes came. They didn't come when downtown bike lanes came. This massive flux of cyclists isn't coming. It's a handful of people at any time of the day. The bike lobby people tried to infiltrate ANC spots where there's little competition and then try to say that it's the will of the people. It's not. It's was just a political strategy from political strategists. Residents care about more important issues that these individuals don't seem well enough equipped to handle.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

Are you referring to the "studied opinions" commissioners who took selfies in front of their constituents' shops on Connecticut Avenue in Cleveland and used a mocking gesture (to put it in very generous terms) directed toward signs in the stores that opposed the bike lanes? We need leaders who support local businesses and the community.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

At least the business exists unlike the phantom proliferation of cyclists that the bike lobbying keeps promising will come if only we had bike lanes. They didn't come when the Rock Creek park bike lanes came. They didn't come when the city bikes came. They didn't come when Reno Road bike lanes came. They didn't come when downtown bike lanes came. This massive flux of cyclists isn't coming. It's a handful of people at any time of the day. The bike lobby people tried to infiltrate ANC spots where there's little competition and then try to say that it's the will of the people. It's not. It's was just a political strategy from political strategists. Residents care about more important issues that these individuals don't seem well enough equipped to handle.

LOL.

Okay you lost me at Reno Road bike lanes. You mean the like.. 3 city blocks to go up and down a giant hill without getting run over by cars? Because the rest of reno road has precisely zilch on it. The city bikes are multiple hundreds of thousands of trips a month. I'm sure none of them ever happen to hop off a city bike and go grab some food or shop.

Freaking imaginary land.

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Biking was aggregated with walking in that statistic. Just about as honest as the first statistic.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

Are you referring to the "studied opinions" commissioners who took selfies in front of their constituents' shops on Connecticut Avenue in Cleveland and used a mocking gesture (to put it in very generous terms) directed toward signs in the stores that opposed the bike lanes? We need leaders who support local businesses and the community.

It's very simple. Business owners do not get to dictate policy to the public. The CT Ave lanes were a key issue in the most recent Ward 3 election and the candidate who promised to cancel them lost in a landslide. Likewise, ANC commissioners who supported the lanes were re-elected. For some reason, you seem to believe that policy in DC should be made by a small number of business owners and commuters, at least some of which don't live in DC. This is a fundamentally anti-democratic position.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

At least the business exists unlike the phantom proliferation of cyclists that the bike lobbying keeps promising will come if only we had bike lanes. They didn't come when the Rock Creek park bike lanes came. They didn't come when the city bikes came. They didn't come when Reno Road bike lanes came. They didn't come when downtown bike lanes came. This massive flux of cyclists isn't coming. It's a handful of people at any time of the day. The bike lobby people tried to infiltrate ANC spots where there's little competition and then try to say that it's the will of the people. It's not. It's was just a political strategy from political strategists. Residents care about more important issues that these individuals don't seem well enough equipped to handle.

Cycling and other forms of micro-mobility that use bike lanes are the fastest growing forms of transportation in the city. The statistics that attest to this have been listed many times over in this thread. If you want to completely ignore them so as to persist in your ridiculous arguments, go ahead. But you would command a lot more respect from others if you just acknowledged that you are wrong and moved on.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

At least the business exists unlike the phantom proliferation of cyclists that the bike lobbying keeps promising will come if only we had bike lanes. They didn't come when the Rock Creek park bike lanes came. They didn't come when the city bikes came. They didn't come when Reno Road bike lanes came. They didn't come when downtown bike lanes came. This massive flux of cyclists isn't coming. It's a handful of people at any time of the day. The bike lobby people tried to infiltrate ANC spots where there's little competition and then try to say that it's the will of the people. It's not. It's was just a political strategy from political strategists. Residents care about more important issues that these individuals don't seem well enough equipped to handle.

What are these "rock creek park bike lanes" you are talking about?

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

At least the business exists unlike the phantom proliferation of cyclists that the bike lobbying keeps promising will come if only we had bike lanes. They didn't come when the Rock Creek park bike lanes came. They didn't come when the city bikes came. They didn't come when Reno Road bike lanes came. They didn't come when downtown bike lanes came. This massive flux of cyclists isn't coming. It's a handful of people at any time of the day. The bike lobby people tried to infiltrate ANC spots where there's little competition and then try to say that it's the will of the people. It's not. It's was just a political strategy from political strategists. Residents care about more important issues that these individuals don't seem well enough equipped to handle.

When the what came?

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My guess is that the CT Avenue bike lanes have proven to be complicated and the city does not have the resources to get it done in the next couple years. The city's finances are a mess and they are now bleeding taxpayers. It will get done, but probably not until 2028.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

This is a tangent, but: If you're concerned enough about the environment not to want to drive to work, as I am, you should be getting your broken vacuums repaired rather than just throwing them out and ordering a new one shipped to you from Amazon. I'd happily park off Connecticut and walk mine to the shop when it needs fixing, or even try to get it onto my bike's rear rack, but I do want that business to be operating when I need it, even if I think they're wrong about road use policy.

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Anonymous wrote:My guess is that the CT Avenue bike lanes have proven to be complicated and the city does not have the resources to get it done in the next couple years. The city's finances are a mess and they are now bleeding taxpayers. It will get done, but probably not until 2028.

The smart thing to do here is to build out bike infrastructure on more local roads. You can get a lot more done with the same money and political capital. Build out the Reno lanes, make some good East-West routes. When 2028 comes around, then CT Ave. seems like a no brainer because it completes the local network.

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More would commute if it were safer to do so.

Also, the denominator there is the entire region of 2.5 million people. We could focus just on the people who would use CT Ave and the number would be a lot higher, of course, but for the author to try to make his point, he had to use the most extreme statistics possible. Well, of course the person who live in Prince William County and drives to Springfield for work is not going to bike, much less bike on CT Ave, so why are these included in the author's stats?

The parallels between the bike lanes debate and the police “reform” debate from a few years ago are striking. During the BLM/defund/reform movement there were many who were urging leaders to pump the breaks and warned what would happen in cities. They were shouted down. It’s the same thing with the bike lanes Over 100 businesses along Connecticut and leaders in downtown CRE are warning that these lanes are a very bad idea. But, a handful of activists could care less and want to move full steam ahead. It’s amazing to watch.

Yeah, they always do. And then the bike lanes go in, and then they figure out that it was actually a very good idea. Bike lanes are good for local businesses, not bad.

I don’t know which side to believe. But, in this case I kinda, sorta believe the business owners on issues involving how to stay in business. I’m much less likely to believe a government or non profit worker who has zero experience in the private sector.

ironically, the businesses do not generally know how their customers access their establishments. When told to ask their existing customers who drove and parked on Conn Ave, many are shocked to learn it is almost none.

And yet despite all odds they’ve managed to stay in business for decades. Thank god this new crop of 30 year old public policy professionals have come along to save them from their own stupidity.

When a vacuum cleaner repair shop is the standard bearer for why one needs to be able to park, when it is just as easy, if not easier, for the store to suggest people drop off their vacuum in the rear alley, or better yet, provide a service to pick up the vacuum and deliver bags, it is a model destined to fail in 2023.

Their bigger threat is that people buy vacuum cleaners via amazon, get new bags via amazon, and they are cheap enough not to be worth it to repair.

More great advice from someone who’s never started a business or to had to make a payroll and rent. The way all these smug activists with worthless, expensive degrees look down upon honest small business people is disturbing.

I wouldn't pretend to tell a purveyor of vacuum cleaners how to run a good business selling vacuum cleaners and it is for precisely that reason that their word shouldn't count for much when it comes to a debate about whether bike lanes may or may not be necessary. Their opinion is not irrelevant, but it doesn't count for any more than those of the residents of northwest DC who have provided input throughout the process and certainly not more than the studied opinions of the commissoners and councilmembers who have been elected by the population to design public policy.

At least the business exists unlike the phantom proliferation of cyclists that the bike lobbying keeps promising will come if only we had bike lanes. They didn't come when the Rock Creek park bike lanes came. They didn't come when the city bikes came. They didn't come when Reno Road bike lanes came. They didn't come when downtown bike lanes came. This massive flux of cyclists isn't coming. It's a handful of people at any time of the day. The bike lobby people tried to infiltrate ANC spots where there's little competition and then try to say that it's the will of the people. It's not. It's was just a political strategy from political strategists. Residents care about more important issues that these individuals don't seem well enough equipped to handle.

Capital Bikeshare has been breaking ridership records consistently