Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not just the Spandex Shanes and the other WABA advocates who are hopping mad. The smart growth lobby (Ward 3 Vision, Cleveland Park Smart Growth, etc) are also mighty upset on "X." Ditto their allies that they recruited and elected to the ANCs. In the past Bowser often has taken their side, but perhaps now she finds the urgent need to support actual, struggling local businesses in DC more compelling than the GGW echo chamber and their vibrant urbanist vision to remake Ward 3.

This Bike Lobby? The group with two black guys, three women, one older dude and one younger dude? All totally look like white middle aged dentists rocking lycra and 10,000 dura-ace bikes from Scott to me!

The blue hair. Always the blue hair.

The people I see riding in the bike lanes are overwhelmingly white and male.

[Anonymous]

Give Krucoff a chance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not just the Spandex Shanes and the other WABA advocates who are hopping mad. The smart growth lobby (Ward 3 Vision, Cleveland Park Smart Growth, etc) are also mighty upset on "X." Ditto their allies that they recruited and elected to the ANCs. In the past Bowser often has taken their side, but perhaps now she finds the urgent need to support actual, struggling local businesses in DC more compelling than the GGW echo chamber and their vibrant urbanist vision to remake Ward 3.

This Bike Lobby? The group with two black guys, three women, one older dude and one younger dude? All totally look like white middle aged dentists rocking lycra and 10,000 dura-ace bikes from Scott to me!

The blue hair. Always the blue hair.

The people I see riding in the bike lanes are overwhelmingly white and male.

I rarely see them used at all, tbh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Stop listening to that crank, Nick DellaDonne
2. Take a second to appreciate the severity of climate change
3. Study up on the other adverse cultural, economic, social, and political effects that car dependence has on cities like DC
4. Rejoice that you live in a progressive city with political leadership that chooses - at least sometimes - to make the city and the world a better place.

Pot, meet Kettle. You are forgetting where you live: you are chatting with political class here. Extreme rhetoric like this is what WE create in this city for Peoria so it’s a bit pedantic to give it back to us like we don’t recognize the technique oof, and in such a patronizing tone.

Climate change will likely be solved at Nation State level (not the DC one) with technology like this:

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/12/swiss-company-climeworks-has-removed-co2-from-air-put-it-underground.html

Moderates accept climate change is existential threat.

But it is not as bleak a picture. Study Chomsky.

Thank you to the OP. I appreciate you holding a biz with little ones. Never ending. In regards to your issue - gather signatures of folks who agree with your position. Then approach highest elected official you can personally meet.

[Anonymous]

4. Rejoice that you live in a progressive city with political leadership that chooses - at least sometimes - to make the city and the world a better place.

No. Not rejoice. Recall.

Look how the experiment in criminal justice "reform" by DC's progressive city political leadership has worked out. It has not made the city and the world a better place. DC residents experience that hard reality.

[Anonymous]

Cities like Portland and San Francisco are quickly dialing back from their progressive experiments. DC needs to do the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cities like Portland and San Francisco are quickly dialing back from their progressive experiments. DC needs to do the same.

The DC Justice League and their DC Council friends are just getting started.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Connecticut Ave what the commuter traffic and the trucks are supposed to use? It’s designated as most major arterial in the area. Diverting truck and vehicle traffic into narrower neighborhood streets will make those streets much less safe and create more gridlock and vehicle/bike/pedestrian conflicts, not fewer.

No, the commuter traffic is supposed to use Metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Connecticut Ave what the commuter traffic and the trucks are supposed to use? It’s designated as most major arterial in the area. Diverting truck and vehicle traffic into narrower neighborhood streets will make those streets much less safe and create more gridlock and vehicle/bike/pedestrian conflicts, not fewer.

No, the commuter traffic is supposed to use Metro.

The Avenue was literally built to take citizens from upper NW DC to downtown and vice versa. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Connecticut Ave what the commuter traffic and the trucks are supposed to use? It’s designated as most major arterial in the area. Diverting truck and vehicle traffic into narrower neighborhood streets will make those streets much less safe and create more gridlock and vehicle/bike/pedestrian conflicts, not fewer.

No, the commuter traffic is supposed to use Metro.

The Avenue was literally built to take citizens from upper NW DC to downtown and vice versa. Sorry.

Here I thought it was just a place to get a burger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Connecticut Ave what the commuter traffic and the trucks are supposed to use? It’s designated as most major arterial in the area. Diverting truck and vehicle traffic into narrower neighborhood streets will make those streets much less safe and create more gridlock and vehicle/bike/pedestrian conflicts, not fewer.

No, the commuter traffic is supposed to use Metro.

The Avenue was literally built to take citizens from upper NW DC to downtown and vice versa. Sorry.

Actually it was originally built with streetcars that served residents of the corridor - since there is now a Metrorail line running under much of the Avenue that is part of a larger and higher capacity public transportation system transitioning that share of the road from car storage to bike lanes to serve residents of the corridor seems perfectly sensible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Connecticut Ave what the commuter traffic and the trucks are supposed to use? It’s designated as most major arterial in the area. Diverting truck and vehicle traffic into narrower neighborhood streets will make those streets much less safe and create more gridlock and vehicle/bike/pedestrian conflicts, not fewer.

No, the commuter traffic is supposed to use Metro.

The Avenue was literally built to take citizens from upper NW DC to downtown and vice versa. Sorry.

On a streetcar. Take a streetcar, take the streetcars' replacement which is buses, or take Metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Connecticut Ave what the commuter traffic and the trucks are supposed to use? It’s designated as most major arterial in the area. Diverting truck and vehicle traffic into narrower neighborhood streets will make those streets much less safe and create more gridlock and vehicle/bike/pedestrian conflicts, not fewer.

No, the commuter traffic is supposed to use Metro.

The Avenue was literally built to take citizens from upper NW DC to downtown and vice versa. Sorry.

On a streetcar.

[Anonymous]

Sorry to burst your bubble but the mayor made it very clear last week: Connecticut Ave bike lanes are not going to happen. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to burst your bubble but the mayor made it very clear last week: Connecticut Ave bike lanes are not going to happen. Get over it.

If you truly believed that, you wouldn't bother posting on this endless thread.