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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's adorable that there are people who actually believe Krucoff lost because he opposed bike lanes and not because he was a Republican running for election in Washington, DC.

You all need serious help.[/quote]

That isn't the argument.

The argument is that he underperformed on his home turf as compared to the rest of the ward. It stands to reason that if people were voting on party lines, then the vote would be relatively consistent across the ward. However, Krucoff underperformed in his own neighborhood. Sure that may mean there are more progressives and liberals in the Connecticut Avenue precincts, but then it would stand to reason that being a democrat and supporting better health and better environmental outcomes would mean also supporting bike lanes, which, yes, were a core issue in the 2022 election cycle.[/quote]

Very few residents, including apparently DDOT, understood that this was a bike lane project in 2022.  [/quote]

Every meeting was promoted on the neighborhood listservs, through public notice, through social media etc. Individual ANC Commisioners may email their constituents. It would be really hard to willfully ignore all of these messages to not know what was going on. And then COVID hit and guess what? Online platforms made it easier and more convenient for people to "attend" meetings and, they did. Instead of like 20 people at ANC meetings, now there were 70-100. And there were countless attendees to the 50-70 meetings where this issue was discussed and in the case of ANCs, voted on.

I am not sure what more you want to city to do, beyond engraved in gold invitations?[/quote]

90 of those 100 participants were bike bros from Ward 1.  [/quote]

Who would like to become Ward 3 residents if Connecticut Ave had protected bike lanes.[/quote]

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