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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Connecticut Avenue is already on a diet now that parking is allowed all day, no rush hour restrictions.  That should slow things down the same as bike lanes would.[/quote]
With the safety argument gone and the transportation argument quite dubious seeing that it is a major public transit corridor there is no rationale at all beyond providing an expensive amenity for a couple dozen of wealthy white people in a city where a lot of basic needs are not being met. This is the kind of thing a city does when it has a growing economy and is flush with cash. That is not the DC of 2023 and thankfully Mayor Bowser and the Council understand that very well.[/quote]

... Get it through your dense head.  It is indeed wages.  For all the people who are participating in the program... Not for one person doing 20 hours a week.

DC has the same poverty rate as West Virginia[/quote]
Is West Virginia planning any boondoggle transportation projects that will only benefit a handful of rich people?[/quote]

Exactly. DC has spent billions of dollars on bike lanes. [/quote]
Not sure about billions but certainly more than $100 million over the past decade.[/quote]

This is total nonsense. After repeated requests, someone in the other thread strung together a bunch of projects that allocated funding to a wide range of infra, including road maintenance, and sheepishly tried to claim that the allocations were all for bike lanes. It was patently absurd. If you nothing to contribute other than lies and manipulation, please just be quiet.[/quote]

Bowser's current budget proposal alone has close to $60 million.  $100 million over the past decade is neither absurd nor an exaggeration.  [/quote]

[b]Bike funding routinely exceeds $100 million annually.[/b] DC has had bike lanes for 15 years. Things aren’t cheap and the DC government is very generous when it spends other people’s money[/quote]

show a link for this claim[/quote]

Here's a sampling from the 2023 budget:

$36 million to expand bike lanes 
$15 million to expand Capital Bikeshare 
$1.3 million to hire people to clean bike lanes 
$57 million to make K Street more bike/bus friendly 
$21 million for bike/pedestrian bridge 
$18.5 million for bike/pedestrian bridge 
$120,000 to buy electric bikes[/quote]

Most of the Washington area bicycling associations annual budget comes from the city. DC pays the bike lobby to lobby the DC government. Surprisingly few real people actually give to waba [/quote]

can we create a bingo card for this thread? “WABA is funded by DC and controls DDOT” will be a square. [/quote]

Uh, well you can look at the budget and see for yourself[/quote]

WABA gets about $100,000 annually in membership dues and almost $1 million from the government. I think that’s called astroturf [/quote]

WABA has/had a contract with DC to teach 2nd graders how to ride bikes. How horrible! What monsters!!! [/quote]

Oh you mean the program where WABA charges DC public schools $1,000 per child to rent one of their bikes? No, that’s not shady at all[/quote]

One of the WABA contracts with the city include paying someone $150,000 per year, rising to $180,000 to be a “bicycle ambassador” which includes hanging out and riding around trails and bike lanes for 20 hours per week[/quote]

What???  Is that for real?  What are the qualification?

I’m a civil engineer and did a summer internship in a city transpiration bike design department.  I did ride bike lanes and proposed bike lanes probably a couple times a week.  I considered myself well paid at 20 making $16 and hour, back in the late 90s.  [/quote]

No, it's not for real. It's a lie. PP is repeatedly lying about this, for some reason only known to themselves.[/quote]

Of course it’s real. You can look up the contract at https://contracts.ocp.dc.gov

Click on contracts then search Washington area bicyclist association. The city pays Waba *absurd* amounts of money for all kinds of dumb things[/quote]

The contract is real. The "salary" is not. It is funding for a program. As you know.[/quote]

It’s only a program in the sense that the bike ambassador has to do certain things in exchange for his salary. We don’t usually call that a “program” though. We call that a “job.”[/quote]

It is a program. It is not a salary. As you know.

Have you considered basket-weaving as a hobby, instead of lying about WABA? It might be more enjoyable.[/quote]
This is wrong. All of the good for the program are itemized in the contract separately. The contract itself specifies that the payment is for wages. Now, I don’t believe that WABA is actually paying someone that much money. As with all government contracts they charge the government a higher rate for wages than what they pay employees and then pocket the rest. [/quote][/quote]

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