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Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not when it is sounds ignorant and bigoted.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:You sound like an ignorant idiot.Anonymous wrote:'Murica! Fuck yeah!
Have you always suffered from an inability to recognize sarcasm?
Speaking of ignorant.... (np)
I think it's a great idea! I already bike to work (VA to DC) once or twice a week so I'm prepared.
ALL RIGHT, and then when you have to take your two kids to day care, and then stop off at the grocery store after picking them up. Two trailers on your bike? Plus twin racks up front? And some heaters for your three year olds when it 20 degrees out with 12 inches of snow?
What a great idea.
If you are going to do urban planning, you have to think of people other than yourself.
Hey dolt, millions of families live like this in Europe. I know that it's boggling to your brain, but it's true. Go to any major European city and you will see tons of people pushing a dual stroller and a single shopping bag on the handle with fresh ingredients.
People there pop into the store every day to pick up fresh food.
By 2050, DC will probably be dense enough to support such a lifestyle.
HEY, I lived in Europe for years. IF we had bakeries, cleaners, and the equivalent of 7 eleven stores every half mile, and then bigger grocery stores every mile (all immediately next to metro stations, like the Giant at Van Ness), in the middle of residential neighborhoods, one could intelligently talk about things like this. But our zoning laws don't allow that type of development in most residential areas. Hence we don't have the infrastructure to do this. Moreover, we only have six metro lines. In Paris, they say that wherever you are, you are less than a kilometer from a Metro station. I don't know if that is true but it is easy to walk to something like that. We would need maybe 18 lines in DC to have that structure. Can you imagine anyone building 18 more underground lines? Even if they were light rail. Moreover, the richer areas tend to be in the middle of the city, middle-class areas around them, and poorer areas in the burbs. Look at living on Wisconsin in DC. No metro until you get to Tenley Town. That wouldn't cut it. Need six or seven stops between Tenley Town and Georgetown to get that structure
If we had different zoning laws, different commercial structures, 18 or more metro lines, and guaranteed seats so older folk with bad knees could sit down, THEN maybe you could talk like this. But we don't and realistically we won't. The zoning laws are the big obstacle.
But so are funds. Our political system won't even let us keep up our current system in a good, well-maintained, functioning state. I've taken the Metro for over thirty years. Thirty yeas ago it was great. Today it is terrible. Things don't work consistently. Delays abound. Can't take the Metro if one has a meeting, one might be late. Terrible.
Call the cops, tell them about this, and ask THEM what you should do.
Bill Murray