Options for opposing Connecticut Avenue changes?

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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…

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.

Make America Bike Again!

[Anonymous]

It turns out that in the late 80s Trump himself promoted a US bicycling race which he saw as rivaling the famed Tour de France. Naturally, Trump’s event was called the Tour de Trump. Trump even proposed that the TdT route encircle the perimeter of the White House.

Maybe someday on Connecticut Ave….

https://youtu.be/sbHNk5oZQK8

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It turns out that in the late 80s Trump himself promoted a US bicycling race which he saw as rivaling the famed Tour de France. Naturally, Trump’s event was called the Tour de Trump. Trump even proposed that the TdT route encircle the perimeter of the White House.

Maybe someday on Connecticut Ave….

https://youtu.be/sbHNk5oZQK8

He owned a stake company too. You gonna become a vegetarian?

An airline as well at one point. You gonna stop flying?

[Anonymous]

The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

Advocates for bike lanes are advocating for bike lanes, where will it all end?!?!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

Considering the state of the budget, tax revenues, metro funding shortage, DCPS funding shortage, and crime that would be gross negligence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

Considering the state of the budget, tax revenues, metro funding shortage, DCPS funding shortage, and crime that would be gross negligence.

And yet here you are, focusing on bike lanes.

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

Considering the state of the budget, tax revenues, metro funding shortage, DCPS funding shortage, and crime that would be gross negligence.

And yet here you are, focusing on bike lanes.

The Bike Bros just cannot let it gos.

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

Considering the state of the budget, tax revenues, metro funding shortage, DCPS funding shortage, and crime that would be gross negligence.

And yet here you are, focusing on bike lanes.

The Bike Bros just cannot let it gos.

YOU can't let it go.

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

Considering the state of the budget, tax revenues, metro funding shortage, DCPS funding shortage, and crime that would be gross negligence.

And yet here you are, focusing on bike lanes.

The Bike Bros just cannot let it gos.

YOU can't let it go.

Have YOU let it go?

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This has become an extremely boring and uninformative thread.

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

"Now"? Shit, we've been doing that for like 10 years, bud.

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

"Now"? Shit, we've been doing that for like 10 years, bud.

Most of the people pushing it weren't living here 10 years ago, bama.

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

Considering the state of the budget, tax revenues, metro funding shortage, DCPS funding shortage, and crime that would be gross negligence.

Maybe we should undo some of the tax cuts we've made over the past 5-10 years.

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Anonymous wrote:The WABA lobby and the bike bros are agitating to have the "progressive" ANCs in Ward 3 push the Bowser Admin to build Connecticut Ave bike lanes, now!

"Now"? Shit, we've been doing that for like 10 years, bud.

Most of the people pushing it weren't living here 10 years ago, bama.

That is very much not the case.