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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is utterly depressing to watch “not just bikes”…-an urban planning YouTube channel made by a Canadian who moved to Amsterdam.

It’s highly detailed and there is no reason why dc cant be more like this…

https://youtu.be/F4kmDxcfR48

There needs to be a complete re-thinking in how the city is planned.

Utrecht, Amsterdam, delft, den Haag have amazing QoL and urban design.[/quote]

There was nothing depressing about watching that video. It's a standard suburban lament from someone who doesn't like the suburban lifestyle that other people prefer. Good for him there is choice and he found a place he likes.[/quote]

I am fine if you want suburban lifestyle- just keep it out of the city.  I live in DC and VA and MD drivers are always speeding through my neighborhood on thier way to work, etc.  Your decision to drive everywhere and live in the suburbs should not affect those in the city who have different priorities than you.  I see nothing wrong with people advocating that the cities they live in become more bike/ pedestrian/ transport friendly[/quote]

Suburban drivers are literal psychopaths who fly into a rage and start foaming at the mouth if you suggest they should have a slightly less convenient commute so they don’t murder children in crosswalks. There’s no use trying to reason with them, they can’t or won’t understand how their attachment to their car has utterly robbed them of any humanity. Direct your anger at the people who can actually do something about this, DDOT and our worthless mayor.[/quote]

Who's "foaming at the mouth" here, really?[/quote]

Not the PP but suburban drivers absolutely foam at the mouth if you question their right to use DC streets as a personal highway.  There was an article a week or so ago about a FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD who was hit by an out-of-state driver while in the crosswalk after the driver ran the stop sign.  The comments are awful- people asking why he was in the crosswalk, someone saying that drivers has places to be, goods to deliver and that is why they don't want to yield to pedestrians, etc (so apparently hitting a child with a car is OK if you are delivering food to someone in the neighborhood?)

I once was trying to cross NY Ave a few blocks from the entrance to the highway (295?  not sure which one because I don't drive) and a woman was completely blocking the crosswalk while I had a walk sign.  I was walking on crutches and I tapped on her window to ask her to move forward or back.  The woman in the car BEHIND her got out of her car and came up to me and screamed that I better not knock on HER window(?!).  I mean imagine being so entitled to road space in a city that you do not pay taxes in (they were both out of state drivers) that you will defend a driver from the sin of having her window touched by screaming at a woman in crutches.  [/quote]

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