GOP spending bill seeking immediate $1 billion in cuts to DC budget

[Anonymous]

Time to return to Maryland

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You really don't care about DC, do you, if you can turn this into another conversation about bikes, cars, and pedestrians?

We have to cut a billion dollars from the budget and cutting obligated future spending on luxury projects is the lowest hanging fruit. Doing so doesn't cost any money and doesn't make anything worse yet it shows up as savings on the balance sheet. It's a no brainer. Especially because they aren't even popular.

I'm sorry that your pet project needs to be cut but firing teachers in order to build bike lanes would be reprehensible.

We're halfway through the fiscal year. Everything-- schools, public safety, services -- is going to be seriously cut. I don't even know what you're advocating against -- bike lanes? That's not going to cut it.

DDOT's capital budget is the juiciest, least harmful, and most politically viable target there is. The more we can cut from it the less we have to cut from everything else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You really don't care about DC, do you, if you can turn this into another conversation about bikes, cars, and pedestrians?

We have to cut a billion dollars from the budget and cutting obligated future spending on luxury projects is the lowest hanging fruit. Doing so doesn't cost any money and doesn't make anything worse yet it shows up as savings on the balance sheet. It's a no brainer. Especially because they aren't even popular.

I'm sorry that your pet project needs to be cut but firing teachers in order to build bike lanes would be reprehensible.

We're halfway through the fiscal year. Everything-- schools, public safety, services -- is going to be seriously cut. I don't even know what you're advocating against -- bike lanes? That's not going to cut it.

DDOT's capital budget is the juiciest, least harmful, and most politically viable target there is. The more we can cut from it the less we have to cut from everything else.

We shouldn't have to cut, period. Eff Maga.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You really don't care about DC, do you, if you can turn this into another conversation about bikes, cars, and pedestrians?

We have to cut a billion dollars from the budget and cutting obligated future spending on luxury projects is the lowest hanging fruit. Doing so doesn't cost any money and doesn't make anything worse yet it shows up as savings on the balance sheet. It's a no brainer. Especially because they aren't even popular.

I'm sorry that your pet project needs to be cut but firing teachers in order to build bike lanes would be reprehensible.

You must have mistaken me for someone else. My kids are in the DC schools and I care very much more about their education than, frankly, any other city budget priorities at this time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully, unless the CR is written to include clarifying language that this does NOT effect DC's budget it won't get the 60+ votes that it needs in the Senate. (ie. it needs 7 Democrats in the Senate to vote yes assuming all Republicans do.)

The Democrats don't care either. We are on our own as always.

Wish Bowser had made the hard budget decision of cutting from the billions in new spending that have been added over the last few years before it came to this.

What does this mean??

Uh, maybe her very costly obsession with taking away driving lanes and parking all around the District and adding bike lanes and millions of flexi posts? All of it was completely unnecessary and it did not result in fewer pedestrian deaths. It resulted in many times more.

recent statistics defy your assertion

The D.C. region is twice as deadly for pedestrians as a decade ago

Despite promises from leaders to eliminate pedestrian deaths, walking in the region is getting more dangerous.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/23/pedestrian-deaths-dc-region/

So things got worse after they started doing all that and it was safer before.

Confusing correlation with causation is suggestive of a deficient education and/or cognitive issues. You have our sympathy in either case.

Kind of ironic, dont ya think.

Your entire argument is that causation is irrelevent.

But it doesn't matter. The bottom line is that we need to cut to budget and these programs are not popular. They should be the first thing to go.

You are a clown living in a Potemkin village populated by straw men.

DC is allocating barely any funds towards the construction of future bike lanes. But the same cannot be said for roadway maintenance.

And by the time the state of DC's roads have had their turn with your car maintenance bill, you're really going to wish you had learned to ride a bike.

[Anonymous]

DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.

So we can just take the billion out of the bike budget and we're good then right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.

Those three bridges are: H Street Bridge: ($313.3M); Theodore Roosevelt ($151.3M); and Benning Road ($210.3M). Which one of those is the "bike bridge"?

And exactly what part of alley, street, and sidewalk maintenance constitutes "ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects"? It's OK, I'll wait for you to figure it out.

The point your posts generally serve is to demonstrate that you have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about. I'd agree that this exchange has further reinforced that.

[Anonymous]

NGL they should halt all road works and the raid the money from those coffers. Let the citizens of MD, VA, WV, PA, DE, and federal fleet pay for it with car problems from potholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.

So we can just take the billion out of the bike budget and we're good then right?

They need $600 million from the capital expenditures part of the budget. $32 million is $32 million that doesn't have to be cut from something important like school repairs. Take another $100 million from DDOT and we're starting to make progress.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.

Those three bridges are: H Street Bridge: ($313.3M); Theodore Roosevelt ($151.3M); and Benning Road ($210.3M). Which one of those is the "bike bridge"?

And exactly what part of alley, street, and sidewalk maintenance constitutes "ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects"? It's OK, I'll wait for you to figure it out.

The point your posts generally serve is to demonstrate that you have no idea whatsoever what you're talking about. I'd agree that this exchange has further reinforced that.

When one tears out a sidewalk and part of a road to create a bike lane then the ancillary parts are the subsequent repair and rebuilding of the sidewalk and road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DDOT's current budget is detailed in the following presentation: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/release_content/attachments/FY%202025%20DDOT%20Budget%20Presentation%20%28April%202024%29.FINAL_.pdf

Bike lane construction accounts for $32 million of a $2 billion six year CIP.

Meanwhile, there is $675 million allocated for three (road) bridge projects and $391 million allocated for the maintenance of alleys, streets, and sidewalks.

One of those bridges is a bike bridge and some of those other costs are ancillary parts of bike lane construction projects.

But thank you for making my point.

So we can just take the billion out of the bike budget and we're good then right?

They need $600 million from the capital expenditures part of the budget. $32 million is $32 million that doesn't have to be cut from something important like school repairs. Take another $100 million from DDOT and we're starting to make progress.

I often ride my bike to work (after walking my kids to our local DCPS school) and am totally fine with completely axing any bike-related money from the budget in response to this situation. But it's a little delusional to think that the city can find all the savings necessary to deal with a sudden fiscal emergency just in some magic pot of bicycle funding. There's one poster on here who seems to think we spend billions every year putting in bike lanes, but if that were the case, every street in the city would have protected aerial bike highways with, like, climate control already.

[Anonymous]

Why should we have to pay federal income taxes if we are an agency per the idiots of MAGA?

[Anonymous]

What happens with these funds if DC cannot spend them this year? They aren't federal funds that would be returned to the Treasury, right?