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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does snow removal work with these protected bike lanes?  Do plows launch the snow 15’ over the bike lane onto the sidewalk?  That doesn’t seem possible or safe.  So it seems like we’d be down to one lane in each direction during snow events.  What does this mean for first responders?  Has anyone thought about this?[/quote]

First responders are absolutely consulted on new street designs such as bike lanes. There are many experts who provide input into these things- firemen (they have distinct requirement s because of size and turning radius of trucks); traffic engineers, etc. The reason these things take so long is because they are being studied and analyzed before being put in[/quote]

Are they?  Let's see their report then.  How much will response time increase due to the increased congestion on both Connecticut and the side streets?[/quote]

If you really cared about first responder response time you'd ban rush hour traffic.  [/quote]

This has to be the dumbest comment yet.

It's a simple question.  You, or one of your WABA buddies, have stated that Fire/EMS/Police have studied the impact of closing 1/3 of Connecticut Ave on their ability to provide essential services and implied that they have approved it.  If so, what is the estimated impact on response times of deliberately increasing congestion by 33% on their main route and exponentially increasing it on the side streets?

This impacts everyone negatively.  I don't think a 10 minute increase in response times for seizures, heart attacks, strokes, burglary, and fires is worth the trade off.  You seem to think it is.  So let's see the numbers.  What size decrease in the effectiveness of emergency response is worth it to you?

The truth is that emergency services aren't actually asked for impact assesments.  They're only asked if fire trucks still fit.  None of the manifest and obvious negative impacts were taken into account before making a decision.[/quote]

No one asks the emergency services if it's OK for thousands more commuters to decide they'd rather drive than take Metro, either, but it had the same effect. Or is traffic only a problem when you think someone else is causing it?[/quote]

This plan without question causes it.  In fact, it's one of the stated goals and the numbers being used are from DDOT itself. Expanding Connecticut is not being considered so it's kind of silly to pretend that that is the alternate choice.

But speaking of mass transit.  The biggest mass transit project in the region right now is the purple line.  Care to guess where one of the main stops.is located? Connecticut Avenue a mile up the road in Maryland.

Not only does this plan decrease pedestrian safety, increase residential traffic, harm small businesses, increase emergency response times, and cost tens of millions of dollars it also benefits nobody and makes it harder to use the purple line.[/quote]

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