Your top three recommendations to make DC a better place for locals and visitors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Nice way of letting everyone know that you haven’t bothered to read the Constitution.

The same 250 year old document that allows Americans to arm themselves with unlimited weapons of war? Pardon me while I wipe my a55 with it.

Then by all means go and live somewhere more to your liking.

+1

Love where you live or go live someplace you love.

[Anonymous]

1. Start prosecuting violent crime again
2. It's no longer OK for vagrants to just poop on the sidewalk or shoot up on playgrounds
3. Clean up the massive grift in DC government. Too many "charities" that get million-dollar contracts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Exactly how do you imagine change, OP, when you keep voting Democrat?

Isn’t this how they define insanity?

[Anonymous]

Geez...just had to drive through downtown DC yesterday (Sunday) and it was such a crawl because it was packed with what I imagine were lots of visitors (and some locals).

It was more crowded than I ever remember pre-COVID...but maybe mid-May is prime DC visiting?

[Anonymous]

Wrong thread, 13:03.

[Anonymous]

I’d love to see the result of this ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Exactly how do you imagine change, OP, when you keep voting Democrat?

Isn’t this how they define insanity?

What does this have to do with politics. There are many blue cities that are safe with great shopping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Geez...just had to drive through downtown DC yesterday (Sunday) and it was such a crawl because it was packed with what I imagine were lots of visitors (and some locals).

It was more crowded than I ever remember pre-COVID...but maybe mid-May is prime DC visiting?

I was downtown yesterday (Sunday). It was PACKED! I'm a local.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Exactly how do you imagine change, OP, when you keep voting Democrat?

Isn’t this how they define insanity?

[b]

Perfect response! Typical silly woman post on DCUM: "We should ... " "they should ...." "better mental health..." without any idea of what is entailed in making such decisions because they are ignorant as to economics, civics, politics, costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Relax the height restriction in a sensible way, with preference given to new residential and mixed uses.
2. Improve enforcement of traffic laws with ticket reciprocity and an enforcement division.
3. Improve and densify public spaces, with more events and more control over commerce in public spaces
(this last one is really an NPS issue re: the Mall and downtown parks, but DC sure would benefit from solving it).

A lot of the quality of life things that people cite are actually a function of #1. Downtown isn't dense enough to be fully vibrant without 100% in office workers, and in much of downtown its uses aren't diverse enough. Also, a lot of larger private sector business stays in VA because they can't find contiguous space to expand in DC.

Trying to make DC more suburb-like (with more parking and less bike infrastructure) will never work; the suburbs will always win on that front, and the city has spent decades and millions of dollars undoing the negative consequences of pursuing that strategy from the 50s to the 80s. DC has to lean into what makes it special and interesting and unique, which means emphasizing being around other people and doing cool things. More density downtown and better use of public spaces for events, food, and commerce would bring more people downtown, better traffic enforcement would make the experience of being out and about more pleasant, and a lot of the other stuff people worry about would just follow along. Also, more residential density downtown would raise revenues again to help offset the decline of office space.

i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

LOL. Comparing Tokyo to any city in America is a joke. Drivers actually follow the rules in Tokyo, and they also care about bikers. In America, people will hit a biker with their car and drive away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Relax the height restriction in a sensible way, with preference given to new residential and mixed uses.
2. Improve enforcement of traffic laws with ticket reciprocity and an enforcement division.
3. Improve and densify public spaces, with more events and more control over commerce in public spaces
(this last one is really an NPS issue re: the Mall and downtown parks, but DC sure would benefit from solving it).

A lot of the quality of life things that people cite are actually a function of #1. Downtown isn't dense enough to be fully vibrant without 100% in office workers, and in much of downtown its uses aren't diverse enough. Also, a lot of larger private sector business stays in VA because they can't find contiguous space to expand in DC.

Trying to make DC more suburb-like (with more parking and less bike infrastructure) will never work; the suburbs will always win on that front, and the city has spent decades and millions of dollars undoing the negative consequences of pursuing that strategy from the 50s to the 80s. DC has to lean into what makes it special and interesting and unique, which means emphasizing being around other people and doing cool things. More density downtown and better use of public spaces for events, food, and commerce would bring more people downtown, better traffic enforcement would make the experience of being out and about more pleasant, and a lot of the other stuff people worry about would just follow along. Also, more residential density downtown would raise revenues again to help offset the decline of office space.

i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

LOL. Comparing Tokyo to any city in America is a joke. Drivers actually follow the rules in Tokyo, and they also care about bikers. In America, people will hit a biker with their car and drive away.

+1. They'll also hit a pedestrian in the crosswalk and drive away. You think that happens in Tokyo? GMAFB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Exactly how do you imagine change, OP, when you keep voting Democrat?

Isn’t this how they define insanity?

We don't have to imagine, we know what happens when you vote Republican.

Your schools have to shut down because they gave away all the tax money to businesses and the rich. Women die in back alleys because healthcare is criminalized. Companies poison our air, water, and food with impunity. Basic services like electricity become privatized, infrastructure crumbles, and costs skyrocket 1,200% whenever a weather event happens. Idiotic culture wars become more important to the governing class than actual governance.

The only insanity here is anyone who believes voting Republican is good for anyone but billionaires.