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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]I just ignore the signs. At some point the city council and DDOT became like parents who nag/criticize their children over every single thing they do. At some point, the child just tunes them out and drivers will do the same. [/quote]

DDOT needs to learn that if its rules seem arbitrary or pointless to drivers, they will just ignore them. That includes unnecessary stop signs and traffic lights and unreasonably low speed limits and banning right turns for no good reason. If drivers are breaking traffic laws, maybe DDOT should look in the mirror. [/quote]

You're making a good argument for suspending or revoking a lot of people's drivers licenses. If drivers can't drive safely and lawfully, they shouldn't have a driver's license.[/quote]

Drivers are mostly black, brown and not rich. Are those the people you think our government likes to crack down upon? [/quote]

Weird point. Not to mention that your premise is objectively false - but generally accurate for pedestrians who are hit and injured by drivers.[/quote]

You new here? Welcome to DC. You'll find that housing is really expensive here. White people are far more likely than black or brown people to be able to afford to live within walking or bicycling distance of where they need to go, which is why white people are always talking about bicycling and pedestrians and black and brown people are not.

D.C. parking, traffic tickets snowball into financial hardships

Traffic and parking tickets are issued more often in Black neighborhoods than White ones, according to D.C. data analyzed by The Washington Post. Advocates for changing the District’s fees and fines system say the disparities criminalize poverty.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/08/06/dc-traffic-parking-tickets-black-neighborhoods/

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Let's see, who is more likely to be able to afford to own and drive a car? Affluent people, or poor people?[/quote]

How in the hell do you think people who live far away from their jobs, who don't have the luxury of working remotely, are getting to work? [/quote]

The bus.[/quote]

Biking is even cheaper than the bus and, during rush hour, faster than driving or riding the bus. More people should bike. But I guess it’s hard for people living the poorest parts of the city to do so when the Ward 8 councilmember has effectively banned DDOT from building any bike lanes in his ward.[/quote]

I will take drivers over annoying, entitled, rude bikers and day of the week. I take the metro BTW and do not drive to work. Bikes and scooters on sidewalks are the worst!!!![/quote]

You know what’s even worse than bikes and scooters on the sidewalks? Cars in bike lanes and sidewalks. A mother died like this earlier in the year [1]. She survived Russian tanks in Ukraine only to get mowed down on her own roads. I’ll take bikers with poor manners over vehicular manslaughter any day.

[1] https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bicyclist-hit-killed-by-car-in-bethesda.amp

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She was killed in August 2022.

I agree with you, though. People who don't like bicyclists and scooter riders on the sidewalk should support good, separate lanes for bicyclists and scooter riders to use - where they will be safe from turning truck drivers.[/quote]

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