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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]DC is about to get a lot less car friendly.  Bowser has already started the process to install speed cameras throughout the city.  We have less than a year to dial it back.[/quote]

Not sure "enforcing the speed limit" means "a lot less car friendly." If you don't speed by more than 5 mph, you won't get a ticket. [/quote]

Oh please.  Not a single one of us drives below 25 mph at all times.  So save that holier than thou bs.  Speed cameras are a nuisance that don't make traffic better.  In fact they make it more dangerous because people slam on the brakes right before approaching one.  This isn't about safety.  It's about revenue and treating the citizenry as a resource to be plundered.  It's a solution in search of a problem.[/quote]

You don't even have to drive under 25. Just drive under 35 and you don't get a ticket in a 25mph zone. I have zero sympathy for you.
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Not sure what sympathy has to do with this.  I am just as adept at not getting a ticket as everyone else.  I'm also not a speed demon.  I'm a normal regular citizen that thinks mass speed cameras, what is being proposed by Bowser, are a bad idea that do nothing to make streets safer while exponentially increasing government harrassment of regular citizens.  It says a lot that you are trying to slander me instead of providing a substantive reason why widespread speed cameras would be a good public policy choice.[/quote]

Well I'd prefer to have structural changes, like narrowing roads, removing lanes, building hard barriers, and things like that to slow people down.  You good with that instead?[/quote]

If you want to have that conversation then have that conversation.  I do not want those things.  Im sure some people like yourself do but am confident that a large majority do not but if I'm wrong about that then I would accept it.  Can you say the same?[/quote]

So you don't want speed cameras and you don't want to structurally change the roads, so you're ok with the status quo of many people dying and being injured every year?

It doesn't have to be that way, it's a choice that you are making.[/quote]

Yes.  I am ok with the status quo.  The amount of people "dying and being injured every year" is not many and is demonstrably less than it has been in recent decades past. I am happy to have that public conversation and follow the will of the people though.  It appears however that you are not.[/quote]

That's a pretty cold statement and not backed up by facts.[/quote]

Then you should have no problem pointing to sudden or recent increases in these statistics compared to the 80s and 90s on a population adjusted basis.

There is no groundswell of public support for street narrowing, speed bumps and speed cameras.  The fact that these measures are being implemented behind people's backs shoud give everyone pause.  In almost all these cases there's a small coterie of outspoken self-appointed busybodies trying to force their will on the majority through the backdoor while pretending that there is widespread support.[/quote]

If a majority of people don’t like what elected officials are doing, I’m sure they’ll be voted out.  [/quote]

It's not being done in public.[/quote]

Really? DDOT and the various ANCs on Conn Ave has scores of public meetings, zoom meeting etc. Took open votes and with almost unanimity, voted to support the changes on that street. There was nothing "not being done in public" about it.

Let's stick to the facts and take off the tin-foil hats.[/quote]

I'm not talking about Connecticut Ave and that's not what I'm hearing from the ANC's.  Policy was recently changed to cut ANC's, let alone residents, out of the loop.[/quote]

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