Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

After Bowser's remarks, why is this thread still active? Do y'all have OCD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roses are red
Conn bike lanes are dead
Continuing this thread is sad
And you biketard are a cad

Get a life!

Yay for not reducing carbon emissions!

With all those cars sitting in traffic this project was a net negative. There are literally no benefits except to a few vocal cyclists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roses are red
Conn bike lanes are dead
Continuing this thread is sad
And you biketard are a cad

Get a life!

You can claim ownership of every pedestrian, bike and car collision that happens on the Avenue going forward. There have been over 300 since the Mayor announced her support for Option C.

Maybe watch where you are going

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roses are red
Conn bike lanes are dead
Continuing this thread is sad
And you biketard are a cad

Get a life!

You can claim ownership of every pedestrian, bike and car collision that happens on the Avenue going forward. There have been over 300 since the Mayor announced her support for Option C.

You’re such a frigging liar. And I support bike lanes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After Bowser's remarks, why is this thread still active? Do y'all have OCD?

Amen.

Same as the Gaza thread. It’s a privately owned forum. There are certain preferences it would seem. Cause some forums get locked real quick

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roses are red
Conn bike lanes are dead
Continuing this thread is sad
And you biketard are a cad

Get a life!

You can claim ownership of every pedestrian, bike and car collision that happens on the Avenue going forward. There have been over 300 since the Mayor announced her support for Option C.

There’s also been 20,000,000+ car trips.

Sh_t happens! Shake it off!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roses are red
Conn bike lanes are dead
Continuing this thread is sad
And you biketard are a cad

Get a life!

You can claim ownership of every pedestrian, bike and car collision that happens on the Avenue going forward. There have been over 300 since the Mayor announced her support for Option C.

Maybe watch where you are going

Sometimes a person is just standing on a sidewalk or eating at, say, Parthenon, or walking in a crosswalk, and someone driving crashes into them, has nothing to do with watching where we are going.

[Anonymous]

That’s your example of a regular occurrence to be cured by a bike lane?? Liar liar…

Go get a job that’s not being a bird flipping ANC person no one respects. Tool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes that’s right - the only way to fight crime is to make the roads as unpleasant for bikes, pedestrians and bus riders as possible. Woo hoo!

It takes a lot of money to fight crime. You need a tax base in order to get a lot of money. You lose your tax base when you make it painful for commuters to get down town.

I live in upper NW D.C. and pay high property and income taxes, and the most painful way to get downtown I could think of is to drive my car to my office. I take Metro about 2/3 of the time and bike 1/3 of the time. Have driven from here to work maybe five times in the six years I've lived in this neighborhood and cannot imagine why anyone would want to do it every day.

Well, its obviously because of "the poors".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes that’s right - the only way to fight crime is to make the roads as unpleasant for bikes, pedestrians and bus riders as possible. Woo hoo!

It takes a lot of money to fight crime. You need a tax base in order to get a lot of money. You lose your tax base when you make it painful for commuters to get down town.

I live in upper NW D.C. and pay high property and income taxes, and the most painful way to get downtown I could think of is to drive my car to my office. I take Metro about 2/3 of the time and bike 1/3 of the time. Have driven from here to work maybe five times in the six years I've lived in this neighborhood and cannot imagine why anyone would want to do it every day.

Let’s see. Hospitalizations. Traumatic brain injuries and deaths. And that’s just the people I know or knew of biking regularly on bike lines in traffic.

Raise them onto the sidewalks or completely separate and leave the streets alone.

So, in other words, there should be safe, protected bike lanes - which also make the streets safer for everyone else.

There's no such thing as "leaving the streets alone" because the streets are for everyone - people on foot, people in strollers, people on bikes, people in wheelchairs, people on scooters, people going to or from buses, etc. etc. etc. Not just people in cars.

There can be no “protected” bike lanes on a street like Connecticut Avenue which would require cars to cross over the lanes at literally hundreds of points to turn on to side streets, alleys, apartment turnarounds, businesses, etc. If this project were built and with the projected 3000 daily users there would be multiple collisions every day. It’s both completely foreseeable and completely unavoidable for this type of road. And, yes, we need greater speed enforcement.

Yes, a reduction from near infinite opportunity to collision with a high speed car to mere hundreds at predictable places like driveways and cross streets would be very desirable. Thanks for pointing out so clearly why the bike lanes are a necessary addition!

[Anonymous]

Pish off, it over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roses are red
Conn bike lanes are dead
Continuing this thread is sad
And you biketard are a cad

Get a life!

You can claim ownership of every pedestrian, bike and car collision that happens on the Avenue going forward. There have been over 300 since the Mayor announced her support for Option C.

You’re such a frigging liar. And I support bike lanes

A liar in that you don't think there have been 300 accidents since 12/15/21? Because... uh.. I got some government data to show you that uh.. indicates that is actually true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Roses are red
Conn bike lanes are dead
Continuing this thread is sad
And you biketard are a cad

Get a life!

You can claim ownership of every pedestrian, bike and car collision that happens on the Avenue going forward. There have been over 300 since the Mayor announced her support for Option C.

Maybe watch where you are going

Sometimes a person is just standing on a sidewalk or eating at, say, Parthenon, or walking in a crosswalk, and someone driving crashes into them, has nothing to do with watching where we are going.

Obligatory:

[Anonymous]

Even without the significant practical concerns about Connecticut Avenue bike lanes, they were not going to happen for a long time. DC is facing a crime crisis, a looming fiscal crisis, and a possible control board situation if DC doesn't address the first two. Cases in point: Fannie Mae has already notified its landlord that it plans to vacate its lease on marquee HQ space downtown where it was the first tenant. Uptown, the largest office tenant in Fannie Mae's former HQ (at newish City Ridge) announced plans to move out it seems after barely having moved in. The crashing commercial office market will be the principal cause of DC's revenue cliff, and going forward with discretionary (and controversial) commitments like bike lanes just will not happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even without the significant practical concerns about Connecticut Avenue bike lanes, they were not going to happen for a long time. DC is facing a crime crisis, a looming fiscal crisis, and a possible control board situation if DC doesn't address the first two. Cases in point: Fannie Mae has already notified its landlord that it plans to vacate its lease on marquee HQ space downtown where it was the first tenant. Uptown, the largest office tenant in Fannie Mae's former HQ (at newish City Ridge) announced plans to move out it seems after barely having moved in. The crashing commercial office market will be the principal cause of DC's revenue cliff, and going forward with discretionary (and controversial) commitments like bike lanes just will not happen.

There's no chance of a control board while a Democrat is president and/or without a GOP super-majority in the Senate.