Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

What do you think a MAMIL is: the latter imaging himself to be the former!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait til the bike lanes are in and it doubles your commute time to get your kid to and from school or practice. Old Georgetown Road is all jacked up and no one rides bikes in the bike lanes.

My kids walk to school, and the only afterschool thing they go to that's near Connecticut, we could always Metro to if driving really became horribly inconvenient (which I doubt). Don't threaten me with a good time.

Nice it’s convenient for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter if bike lanes go mostly unused. What's important is that the cyclists feel better.

Power/dominance flex

There is no power/dominance midlife crisis lycra in a protected bike lane, only everyday commuters, family cargo bikes, and Citybike rentals.
The lycra flex characters you hate are happy in the middle of the busy road.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Folks, in case you haven’t heard, dc is going off a fiscal cliff. No money for these projects.

Yes, plus Bowser specifically indicated it is not happening.

I'm mystified that this thread continues.

She said there were some troubling aspects of Concept C. She didn't say the project was killed. Let DDOT address her concerns.

We're about to suffer a complete breakdown in tax revenue cause by the commerical real estate crash as well as an out of control crime wave and population loss. Wasting a single penny more on this frivolous poorly thought out idea would be gross negligence.

Protected bike infrastructure is not frivolous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just wait til the bike lanes are in and it doubles your commute time to get your kid to and from school or practice. Old Georgetown Road is all jacked up and no one rides bikes in the bike lanes.

Old Georgetown Road is now safer for everyone, including drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wait til the bike lanes are in and it doubles your commute time to get your kid to and from school or practice. Old Georgetown Road is all jacked up and no one rides bikes in the bike lanes.

Old Georgetown Road is now safer for everyone, including drivers.

With measured, minimal impact in commute times to boot.

[Anonymous]

I can't really believe that anyone thinks the current situation on Conn Ave is better than pre-pandemic. My commute home from Dupont to just inside the Beltway is now a nightmare. From Woodley through Van Ness is total gridlock from about 5pm to nearly 7pm. Waze was redirecting tons of cars through the neighborhood, which were also gridlocked. Is this what DC residents want? You can't force people back to the office and then cut off Beach, shrink CT Ave to two lanes at rush hour, and assume that it's going to work. Something's gotta give.

[Anonymous]

Don’t feed the MAMIL! 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't really believe that anyone thinks the current situation on Conn Ave is better than pre-pandemic. My commute home from Dupont to just inside the Beltway is now a nightmare. From Woodley through Van Ness is total gridlock from about 5pm to nearly 7pm. Waze was redirecting tons of cars through the neighborhood, which were also gridlocked. Is this what DC residents want? You can't force people back to the office and then cut off Beach, shrink CT Ave to two lanes at rush hour, and assume that it's going to work. Something's gotta give.

The bike lobby responds that DC streets are a grid and thus have no problem with diverting and flushing Connecticut Ave commuter traffic through the grid, even on to narrower residential streets, so long as they can have bike lanes. They actually think that diverting vehicles from Connecticut onto other streets is a worthwhile goal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't really believe that anyone thinks the current situation on Conn Ave is better than pre-pandemic. My commute home from Dupont to just inside the Beltway is now a nightmare. From Woodley through Van Ness is total gridlock from about 5pm to nearly 7pm. Waze was redirecting tons of cars through the neighborhood, which were also gridlocked. Is this what DC residents want? You can't force people back to the office and then cut off Beach, shrink CT Ave to two lanes at rush hour, and assume that it's going to work. Something's gotta give.

Have you considered taking Metro?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't really believe that anyone thinks the current situation on Conn Ave is better than pre-pandemic. My commute home from Dupont to just inside the Beltway is now a nightmare. From Woodley through Van Ness is total gridlock from about 5pm to nearly 7pm. Waze was redirecting tons of cars through the neighborhood, which were also gridlocked. Is this what DC residents want? You can't force people back to the office and then cut off Beach, shrink CT Ave to two lanes at rush hour, and assume that it's going to work. Something's gotta give.

CT Ave is already bad. Got it. So adding bike lanes with better through-put would actually make things better, not worse.

[Anonymous]

Don’t feed the MAMIL who is very literal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't really believe that anyone thinks the current situation on Conn Ave is better than pre-pandemic. My commute home from Dupont to just inside the Beltway is now a nightmare. From Woodley through Van Ness is total gridlock from about 5pm to nearly 7pm. Waze was redirecting tons of cars through the neighborhood, which were also gridlocked. Is this what DC residents want? You can't force people back to the office and then cut off Beach, shrink CT Ave to two lanes at rush hour, and assume that it's going to work. Something's gotta give.

DC residents want the streets to be safe and accomodating. Personally I don’t care if your car commute which should have been by Metro takes an extra 10-15.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t feed the MAMIL who is very literal

you sound really idiotic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't really believe that anyone thinks the current situation on Conn Ave is better than pre-pandemic. My commute home from Dupont to just inside the Beltway is now a nightmare. From Woodley through Van Ness is total gridlock from about 5pm to nearly 7pm. Waze was redirecting tons of cars through the neighborhood, which were also gridlocked. Is this what DC residents want? You can't force people back to the office and then cut off Beach, shrink CT Ave to two lanes at rush hour, and assume that it's going to work. Something's gotta give.

DC residents want the streets to be safe and accomodating. Personally I don’t care if your car commute which should have been by Metro takes an extra 10-15.

What's safe and accomodating about gridlock and commuters on neighborhood streets? While the 8-lane road is clogged with illegally parked Door Dash drivers? And newsflash, not all of us live within walking distance of metro.

Of course, my choice is not between driving or Metro, it's between in office or remote. I only have to be in one day per week, and spending hours in traffic for a commute that was much more efficient with pre-pandemic traffic patterns is not very appealing.