Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry WABA and bike bros, you’ve finally been Bowsered!

Here's an idea for W3 WABAs: Focus your bike plans around the schools rather than the commercial districts. If you can turn just a few 6,000 pound SUVs dropping off Larlo into a bike trip, then you'll do more for W3 traffic and safety than any changes on CT.

Maybe you have missed it, but the Ward 3 Bike Advocates, WABA and the different Parent-School groups have been working on this for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think after several years of falling for progressive ideas that have destroyed DC and other cities Mayor Bowser is finally saying “Nah, we good” before it’s too late.

-legalized marijuana
-sanctuary cities
-“reimagining” police
-bike lanes (cancelled)

DC was a paradise of healthy businesses and free-flowing SUVs until those bike lanes ruined everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry WABA and bike bros, you’ve finally been Bowsered!

Here's an idea for W3 WABAs: Focus your bike plans around the schools rather than the commercial districts. If you can turn just a few 6,000 pound SUVs dropping off Larlo into a bike trip, then you'll do more for W3 traffic and safety than any changes on CT.

Maybe you have missed it, but the Ward 3 Bike Advocates, WABA and the different Parent-School groups have been working on this for years.

How’s that going? Pickup and dropoff near Ward 3 public schools is more chaotic and unsafe than ever. And DCPS embraces a system characterized by a great commute twice a day of students from east of Rock Creek Park to schools west of the park. Most of them travel by private vehicle. And then there are all the vehicles taking students to the numerous independent schools, although at least they are required to have transportation management plans which marginally reduce the traffic mess compared with DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry WABA and bike bros, you’ve finally been Bowsered!

Here's an idea for W3 WABAs: Focus your bike plans around the schools rather than the commercial districts. If you can turn just a few 6,000 pound SUVs dropping off Larlo into a bike trip, then you'll do more for W3 traffic and safety than any changes on CT.

Maybe you have missed it, but the Ward 3 Bike Advocates, WABA and the different Parent-School groups have been working on this for years.

How’s that going? Pickup and dropoff near Ward 3 public schools is more chaotic and unsafe than ever. And DCPS embraces a system characterized by a great commute twice a day of students from east of Rock Creek Park to schools west of the park. Most of them travel by private vehicle. And then there are all the vehicles taking students to the numerous independent schools, although at least they are required to have transportation management plans which marginally reduce the traffic mess compared with DCPS.

+1. If we were serious about reducing the number of cars on Connecticut and Reno one major step would be to do away with the OOB DCPS system which contributes hundreds of cars a day to WOTP schools. It could be done overnight. For free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry WABA and bike bros, you’ve finally been Bowsered!

Here's an idea for W3 WABAs: Focus your bike plans around the schools rather than the commercial districts. If you can turn just a few 6,000 pound SUVs dropping off Larlo into a bike trip, then you'll do more for W3 traffic and safety than any changes on CT.

LOL. Most of this crowd doesn’t have kids. They just want to be able to ride their bikes to Nanny’s for boozy trivia nights. If they actually cared about kids they wouldn’t be advocating for a plan that will push 7000 cars per day into the neighborhoods where actual kids ride their bikes.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think after several years of falling for progressive ideas that have destroyed DC and other cities Mayor Bowser is finally saying “Nah, we good” before it’s too late.

-legalized marijuana
-sanctuary cities
-“reimagining” police
-bike lanes (cancelled)

DC was a paradise of healthy businesses and free-flowing SUVs until those bike lanes ruined everything.

Our small local businesses face enough challenges without boycott threats from bike activists and middle-finger intimidation from bike-lane obsessed ANC commissioners. And now these same establishments, having lost customer parking to the Connecticut Ave “Promenade” are told that they should shovel the space that used to be public roadway.
Are folks trying to put them out of business?!

[Anonymous]

Good for Bowser. It was a ridiculous plan.

[Anonymous]

Last night at the Ward 3 Democrats meeting, Mayor Bowser made it very clear she was not interested in Connecticut Avenue bike lanes because of the harms she thinks they will have on District businesses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for Bowser. It was a ridiculous plan.

Yes. Bowser is finally facing reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think after several years of falling for progressive ideas that have destroyed DC and other cities Mayor Bowser is finally saying “Nah, we good” before it’s too late.

-legalized marijuana
-sanctuary cities
-“reimagining” police
-bike lanes (cancelled)

DC was a paradise of healthy businesses and free-flowing SUVs until those bike lanes ruined everything.

Our small local businesses face enough challenges without boycott threats from bike activists and middle-finger intimidation from bike-lane obsessed ANC commissioners. And now these same establishments, having lost customer parking to the Connecticut Ave “Promenade” are told that they should shovel the space that used to be public roadway.
Are folks trying to put them out of business?!

It was the lack of parking that did in that cereal restaurant in Cleveland Park: https://www.popville.com/2010/12/shocking-news-cereal-bowl-appears-to-have-closed-in-cleveland-park/

I think the property owners want to blame everything but the actual source of their struggles, their rents are just too high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry WABA and bike bros, you’ve finally been Bowsered!

Here's an idea for W3 WABAs: Focus your bike plans around the schools rather than the commercial districts. If you can turn just a few 6,000 pound SUVs dropping off Larlo into a bike trip, then you'll do more for W3 traffic and safety than any changes on CT.

LOL. Most of this crowd doesn’t have kids. They just want to be able to ride their bikes to Nanny’s for boozy trivia nights. If they actually cared about kids they wouldn’t be advocating for a plan that will push 7000 cars per day into the neighborhoods where actual kids ride their bikes.

Well, personally, the only reason I want bike lanes on Connecticut is because I live in upper NW now because I have kids. If I was still single/childless, I'd live closer to downtown and wouldn't really care one way or the other about what happened on roads up in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry WABA and bike bros, you’ve finally been Bowsered!

Here's an idea for W3 WABAs: Focus your bike plans around the schools rather than the commercial districts. If you can turn just a few 6,000 pound SUVs dropping off Larlo into a bike trip, then you'll do more for W3 traffic and safety than any changes on CT.

Maybe you have missed it, but the Ward 3 Bike Advocates, WABA and the different Parent-School groups have been working on this for years.

How’s that going? Pickup and dropoff near Ward 3 public schools is more chaotic and unsafe than ever. And DCPS embraces a system characterized by a great commute twice a day of students from east of Rock Creek Park to schools west of the park. Most of them travel by private vehicle. And then there are all the vehicles taking students to the numerous independent schools, although at least they are required to have transportation management plans which marginally reduce the traffic mess compared with DCPS.

+1. If we were serious about reducing the number of cars on Connecticut and Reno one major step would be to do away with the OOB DCPS system which contributes hundreds of cars a day to WOTP schools. It could be done overnight. For free.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry, I thought it was the PROPONENTS of bike lanes who are supposed to be representing only the interests of wealthy white people in upper NW. But now it seems like the opponents want to kick out of bounds kids from east of the park out of the schools up here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think after several years of falling for progressive ideas that have destroyed DC and other cities Mayor Bowser is finally saying “Nah, we good” before it’s too late.

-legalized marijuana
-sanctuary cities
-“reimagining” police
-bike lanes (cancelled)

DC was a paradise of healthy businesses and free-flowing SUVs until those bike lanes ruined everything.

Our small local businesses face enough challenges without boycott threats from bike activists and middle-finger intimidation from bike-lane obsessed ANC commissioners. And now these same establishments, having lost customer parking to the Connecticut Ave “Promenade” are told that they should shovel the space that used to be public roadway.
Are folks trying to put them out of business?!

It was the lack of parking that did in that cereal restaurant in Cleveland Park: https://www.popville.com/2010/12/shocking-news-cereal-bowl-appears-to-have-closed-in-cleveland-park/

I think the property owners want to blame everything but the actual source of their struggles, their rents are just too high.

The problem with the cereal restaurant was the concept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry WABA and bike bros, you’ve finally been Bowsered!

Here's an idea for W3 WABAs: Focus your bike plans around the schools rather than the commercial districts. If you can turn just a few 6,000 pound SUVs dropping off Larlo into a bike trip, then you'll do more for W3 traffic and safety than any changes on CT.

Maybe you have missed it, but the Ward 3 Bike Advocates, WABA and the different Parent-School groups have been working on this for years.

How’s that going? Pickup and dropoff near Ward 3 public schools is more chaotic and unsafe than ever. And DCPS embraces a system characterized by a great commute twice a day of students from east of Rock Creek Park to schools west of the park. Most of them travel by private vehicle. And then there are all the vehicles taking students to the numerous independent schools, although at least they are required to have transportation management plans which marginally reduce the traffic mess compared with DCPS.

+1. If we were serious about reducing the number of cars on Connecticut and Reno one major step would be to do away with the OOB DCPS system which contributes hundreds of cars a day to WOTP schools. It could be done overnight. For free.

Oh, wait, I'm sorry, I thought it was the PROPONENTS of bike lanes who are supposed to be representing only the interests of wealthy white people in upper NW. But now it seems like the opponents want to kick out of bounds kids from east of the park out of the schools up here?

Can’t they take the bike lanes across the park?

[Anonymous]

Councilman Frumin, a bike lane supporter, made quite clear that if the Connecticut Ave service lane were closed (resulting in loss of a number of parking spaces) then the bike lane plan would need to change to avoid a parking loss double-whammy for Cleveland Park businesses and their patrons. The service lane is now closed and the parking that once existed there is gone. So why is the retrenchment of Option C such a surprise?