Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

[Anonymous]

They’re awful, don’t forget the obscene photo they took and posted

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the most online sentence I think I've ever read.

It's also total insanity.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks we're getting another bike lane in this city for the next ten years is NUTS. THERE IS NO MONEY! The Barras Report likened it to the 2008 financial crisis.

Racist.

Huh? I’m really at a loss how on dcum talking about crime or traffic equates to being racist. I don’t think I’m getting the same tinfoil hat newsletter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks we're getting another bike lane in this city for the next ten years is NUTS. THERE IS NO MONEY! The Barras Report likened it to the 2008 financial crisis.

Racist.

Huh? I’m really at a loss how on dcum talking about crime or traffic equates to being racist. I don’t think I’m getting the same tinfoil hat newsletter.

Don't even bother trying to understand it. Some of these bikebros are certifiable.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks we're getting another bike lane in this city for the next ten years is NUTS. THERE IS NO MONEY! The Barras Report likened it to the 2008 financial crisis.

I guess you haven't been listening to the DDOT Director's testimony at the Oversight hearing today.

Acting director. But DC, like other cities, is finding the cupboard is bare. Other major cities are already announcing drastic budget cuts. Washington DC will be next, although some on the Council will reflexively try to just raise taxes again. The reasons for the cliff are multiple: the end of COVID-era subsidies to municipalities; the crash in commercial real estate assessments because of remote work; over-spending and lack of oversight and accountability in existing spending programs; costs of services for the surge of illegal migrants, etc.

There will be no money for Connecticut Avenue bike lanes. If the choice is between hiring more cops vs bike lanes, which one will Bowser choose?

MPD has been allocated millions more than it has been able to spend.

The bike bros have clearly embraced ‘defund the police’ ever since the DC police union had the gall to oppose the Connecticut Ave bike lanes on public safety grounds.

The bike bros grew up into ANC Commissioners who asked that MPD get out of the traffic enforcement game and instead transfer that responsibility to DDOT. And now they run around with their hair in fire crying about unsafe streets. OK…

True. And several of the Woodley-Cleveland Park ANC-ers who serve today voted 2 or 3 years ago for an ANC resolution that called for cutting the MPD police budget. What chuckleheads.

Luckily many of them now are Hamas fanboys so that should keep them busy for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The men in Lycra are definitely not riding their four-figure bikes to work on Connecticut, bike lanes or no bike lanes. I don’t see anyone in spandex when I bike to work now. (Maybe some of them are; I do wear Lycra when I bike commute, but it’s in the form of padded Lycra shorts under regular shorts or pants with a normal t shirt, so you wouldn’t see it.)

This is all just a variation on the “no true Scotsman” fallacy: no true Ward 3 resident wants bike lanes, they’re either young transient renter bike bros (who we should ignore) or they’re middle-aged men in Lycra (who we should ignore).

I wear spandex. All of my pants have spandex in them. My jeans, my casual non-jeans pants, and my dress pants. It's not easy to find women's pants that don't have spandex, these days. I'm also middle-aged, and I ride a bike that I acquired for two figures, so for the purposes of this thread, I apparently don't even exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paunchy. Not supple.
Condescending smug and self obsessed
In midlife crisis

I mean, if it helps you get your rocks off..

[Anonymous]

It’s more about your rocks. And the rocks they’ll use to knock you off and rob you

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The men in Lycra are definitely not riding their four-figure bikes to work on Connecticut, bike lanes or no bike lanes. I don’t see anyone in spandex when I bike to work now. (Maybe some of them are; I do wear Lycra when I bike commute, but it’s in the form of padded Lycra shorts under regular shorts or pants with a normal t shirt, so you wouldn’t see it.)

This is all just a variation on the “no true Scotsman” fallacy: no true Ward 3 resident wants bike lanes, they’re either young transient renter bike bros (who we should ignore) or they’re middle-aged men in Lycra (who we should ignore).

I wear spandex. All of my pants have spandex in them. My jeans, my casual non-jeans pants, and my dress pants. It's not easy to find women's pants that don't have spandex, these days. I'm also middle-aged, and I ride a bike that I acquired for two figures, so for the purposes of this thread, I apparently don't even exist.

No, there are MAWILs. They just haven’t captured the public’s imagination in quite the same way as the mooby MAMILs. Perhaps because that would get us into a potentially TERFy turf?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re awful, don’t forget the obscene photo they took and posted

They certainly play favorites with local businesses, actually flipping off some while going all out to get lucrative DC permits for the businesses they like. It’s embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The men in Lycra are definitely not riding their four-figure bikes to work on Connecticut, bike lanes or no bike lanes. I don’t see anyone in spandex when I bike to work now. (Maybe some of them are; I do wear Lycra when I bike commute, but it’s in the form of padded Lycra shorts under regular shorts or pants with a normal t shirt, so you wouldn’t see it.)

This is all just a variation on the “no true Scotsman” fallacy: no true Ward 3 resident wants bike lanes, they’re either young transient renter bike bros (who we should ignore) or they’re middle-aged men in Lycra (who we should ignore).

I wear spandex. All of my pants have spandex in them. My jeans, my casual non-jeans pants, and my dress pants. It's not easy to find women's pants that don't have spandex, these days. I'm also middle-aged, and I ride a bike that I acquired for two figures, so for the purposes of this thread, I apparently don't even exist.

Ah, ok, then you (like me) are in spandex but no one realizes it. I see plenty of middle-aged women commuting by bike when I'm commuting by bike. I guess more of you are wearing spandex than I realized. What I don't see many of is white dudes in bike racing gear, i.e., the middle-aged men in Lycra who that one poster is constantly bringing up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They’re awful, don’t forget the obscene photo they took and posted

They certainly play favorites with local businesses, actually flipping off some while going all out to get lucrative DC permits for the businesses they like. It’s embarrassing.

Do you have proof of this or just engaging in casual slander?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks we're getting another bike lane in this city for the next ten years is NUTS. THERE IS NO MONEY! The Barras Report likened it to the 2008 financial crisis.

I guess you haven't been listening to the DDOT Director's testimony at the Oversight hearing today.

Acting director. But DC, like other cities, is finding the cupboard is bare. Other major cities are already announcing drastic budget cuts. Washington DC will be next, although some on the Council will reflexively try to just raise taxes again. The reasons for the cliff are multiple: the end of COVID-era subsidies to municipalities; the crash in commercial real estate assessments because of remote work; over-spending and lack of oversight and accountability in existing spending programs; costs of services for the surge of illegal migrants, etc.

There will be no money for Connecticut Avenue bike lanes. If the choice is between hiring more cops vs bike lanes, which one will Bowser choose?

MPD has been allocated millions more than it has been able to spend.

The bike bros have clearly embraced ‘defund the police’ ever since the DC police union had the gall to oppose the Connecticut Ave bike lanes on public safety grounds.

The bike bros grew up into ANC Commissioners who asked that MPD get out of the traffic enforcement game and instead transfer that responsibility to DDOT. And now they run around with their hair in fire crying about unsafe streets. OK…

This is the most online sentence I think I've ever read.

And the timing doesn't really add up - the bike bros either were ANCs fifteen years ago or they just showed up. These bike lane opponents sound like MAGA Republicans going on about the border crisis. The border crisis is a catch-all of dusty complaints that require complex solutions that they cannot grasp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who thinks we're getting another bike lane in this city for the next ten years is NUTS. THERE IS NO MONEY! The Barras Report likened it to the 2008 financial crisis.

I guess you haven't been listening to the DDOT Director's testimony at the Oversight hearing today.

Acting director. But DC, like other cities, is finding the cupboard is bare. Other major cities are already announcing drastic budget cuts. Washington DC will be next, although some on the Council will reflexively try to just raise taxes again. The reasons for the cliff are multiple: the end of COVID-era subsidies to municipalities; the crash in commercial real estate assessments because of remote work; over-spending and lack of oversight and accountability in existing spending programs; costs of services for the surge of illegal migrants, etc.

There will be no money for Connecticut Avenue bike lanes. If the choice is between hiring more cops vs bike lanes, which one will Bowser choose?

MPD has been allocated millions more than it has been able to spend.

The bike bros have clearly embraced ‘defund the police’ ever since the DC police union had the gall to oppose the Connecticut Ave bike lanes on public safety grounds.

The bike bros grew up into ANC Commissioners who asked that MPD get out of the traffic enforcement game and instead transfer that responsibility to DDOT. And now they run around with their hair in fire crying about unsafe streets. OK…

This is the most online sentence I think I've ever read.

And the timing doesn't really add up - the bike bros either were ANCs fifteen years ago or they just showed up. These bike lane opponents sound like MAGA Republicans going on about the border crisis. The border crisis is a catch-all of dusty complaints that require complex solutions that they cannot grasp.

The irony here is that the strong MAGA Trumper connection is on the pro-Connecticut bike lane lobby side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re awful, don’t forget the obscene photo they took and posted

They certainly play favorites with local businesses, actually flipping off some while going all out to get lucrative DC permits for the businesses they like. It’s embarrassing.

Do you have proof of this or just engaging in casual slander?

Listen to the public meetings. It's embarrassing.