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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240517-vision-zero-how-europe-cut-the-number-of-people-dying-on-its-roads

Interesting article about the origins of Vision Zero.  It is very different than what it has transmogrified into.  For instance, the very first project was removing concrete barriers.  One of the other differences is that roads are defined according to their main use.

In short, the Connectict Ave plan goes against the very ideas it is supposed to represent.[/quote]

Exactly.  Under the classification system, Connecticut Avenue has the highest use classification (major arterial) short of limited access highways in DC.  The problem is that by constraining Connecticut, DDOT would divert and squeeze more thru traffic, including trucks, into narrower collector streets and m very narrow “local” (lowest classification) streets in adjoining neighborhoods.

That’s definitely not Vision Zero but it might reflect zero vision.[/quote]

There is no planet where Connecticut Avenue in DC is anything close to a "limited access highway" - you are doing a lot of work there conflating classifications.[/quote]

No conflating anything.  Connecticut has the highest functional classification in upper Northwest, "major arterial," aside from the Whitehurst and short I-66.  Outside of these highways, Connecticut and the other major arterials are the roads that are supposed to carry the major thru traffic between Maryland, uptown Northwest and the western part of downtown Washington.  [b]Constraining Connecticut's capacity will divert a lot of cars and vehicles on to streets that were not planned or build for such traffic loads.[/b]  Recall an experiment about 10 years ago to constrain Wisconsin Ave between Massachusetts Ave and Burleith.  It did not end well but because the construction involved flexible pylons, it was relatively easy to address the resulting gridlock and diversion by reversing and removing the new road configuration.  Connecticut bike lanes would be constructed for permanence, making them more difficult and far more costly to fix.[/quote]

This is not what the DDOT study said. What the DDOT study said is that MD commuters would use OTHER ARTERIALS and Metro instead of Connecticut Avenue. And this has been pointed out repeatedly and yet opponents of the bike lanes CONTINUE to repeat this lie again and again.[/quote]

One thing to keep in mind is that there are a lot of people walking around with personality disorders, and when infrastructure becomes a matter for public input, it gives them a great opportunity to get all the supply they need and publicly enact their psychodramas. These people are not well, and all the ANC and DC government folks who have to deal with them have my utmost sympathy. [/quote]

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