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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]If bike lanes weren't dead already, they're gone with the wind now - or at least gone with the Wizards and the Caps.  People have finally had it up to here with all of Bowser's bad agenda:  not just bike lanes that create traffic jams, out of control crime that has spread to formerly safe neighborhoods; allowing the police department to become hollowed out; a misguided voucher program that works only to enrich glorified slumlords while spreading the aforesaid crime around; truancy and further declining DC public schools (if that's possible); selling out the DC government to real estate developers; poor quality appointed officials; and "urban vibrancy" that has become code for a declining quality of life in many areas.  The list goes on.[/quote]

If anything, the reduced demand for going downtown undermines the downtown business lobby's arguments.[/quote]

Your policies destroy the city and now you want a prize?[/quote]

The bike lanes are not the reason the Wizards and Caps are leaving, and just because Bowser supports the bike lanes doesn't mean everyone else who does supports Bowser. [/quote]

The people who support the bike lanes are the reason the Caps are leaving.  Because those same people keep electing pro crime and anti business elected officials.  [/quote]

Just stop, please. Biking is politically neutral. Safe streets are neutral. Public transport is neutral. [/quote]

It is neutral and there is nothing wrong or partisan with opposing this vision of intentional congestion.

There is nothing wrong with wanting traffic on the main roads and not the side streets.  We like that our kids are bicycling up and down the sides streets and want to keep them free of spillover traffic.

There is nothing wrong about wanting to be part of a region and not just a village.  The DMV is a fantastic region and one of the most diverse racially, ethnically, and culturally in the country but it's spread around.  It's ok to want to get around without a big hassle.

There is nothing wrong with being concerned for the local businesses that have been around for decades and don't have a parking lot.  Just as we want to go to other parts of the city and region we also want them to come to ours.  Our businesses need a variety of customers.

That's the distinction.[/quote]

100%[/quote]

This is the “plan.”   This is intentional. These folks hate your kids, your single family home and private car ownership.  Every little change is an attempt to get you to move. Drip, drip drip….[/quote]

What are you talking about? I live in a single-family home with my kids and own two cars. And I bike downtown and back on Connecticut Avenue at least once a week and would love to be able to do it in a protected bike lane instead of in traffic. I don’t hate anyone’s kids or their homes or their cars, you just can’t believe anyone might not want things to be exactly the way you do. [/quote]

Then move downtown and live the life you say you want.  Leave the rest of us alone.   [/quote]

That's harsh.  I'm sure that poster is being quite honest.  They're not pushing congestion in the name of safety.  They're not demanding that driving and parking become punishing as a means to an end.  [b]They just want a bike lane for their occassional use and are agnostic about where it is.  [/b]They'd like a bike lane as an amenity just like others might want a dog park.

There's nothing wrong with that.  They're not the problem and they're likely embarrassed by the things some of their more out there ostensible allies push.  [/quote]

That poster was actually very specific about where they want the bike lane for their regular transportation use: on Connecticut Avenue.[/quote]

Let them speak for themselves.  They said that they want a north-south protected bike lane for their semi-regular occassional use.  I take them at their word.[/quote]

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