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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][quote=Anonymous]Bike Lane mafia is not doing so great in Ward 3.  Maybe time for a real conversation?[/quote]

All of the ANC's will still be pro-bike lane.
Frumin out-polled Cheh and is pro-bike lane.

IOW, bike lanes are happening.[/quote]

The ANC races are 50/50 on bike lanes. Siddiqui won by 6 votes. [b]Tandaric lost[/b].  The neighbors are sharply divided, now they are actually paying attention. Time for a reset. [/quote]

It appears the pro bike folks like both candidates in that race:

https://twitter.com/Ward3Bikes/status/1580940779853582336

And Siddiqui was the biggest pro-bike person on ANC 3C and he had an opponent that spent a lot of money and had a lot of support from the Macwood contingent and CPCA/CPHS crowd and still won.

So yeah I think the pro bike crowd is pretty happy with this outcome.[/quote]

How can they be happy? The competitive races show the community its sharply divided.  We can now dispense with the “wide community support” narrative.  The bike crowd should be embarrassed for the scam they’ve run the past two years.  [/quote]

Repost from page 2 of this thread:

Funny. I was just telling a friend today: "Next NIMBY talking point: elections don't really matter."[/quote]

Quite the opposite. The elections DI matter.  They show the community is split on the issue.  We’re all neighbors and if we make policy on the basis of 51%-49% votes, this will not be a pleasant place to live.  Now is the time to heal, come together, and find consensus on how to make Connecticut Ave safer: more enforcement, dedicated bus lanes, increased bike amenities around metro, etc. There are many places for agreement. [/quote]

The decision had already been made by the mayor. Everything that has happened since, the petition, the lies on the neighborhood email lists, etc, are what is divisive. If you want to come together and heal, then the way to do it is to understand the bike lanes are happening and help make the design as good as possible. Neither the ANC, the Councilmember-Elect nor the Mayor are reversing the decision.

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You're right.  The lies have been what is so divisive.  The lies about popularity. The lies about a mandate.  The lies about community awareness.  The lies about impact.    We cannot come together until you all stop the lies.  [/quote]

Kind of looks like a mandate, given the many victories of bike lane proponents up and down the avenue. [/quote]

This is just asinine. [b]No one was even thinking about bike lanes in these elections.[/b] And the leading progressive on the city council was defeated. The city council is going to swing back towards the center after all this. [/quote]

The republican candidate literally had it on his signs and he captured a few votes.
Several ANC Commissioners made opposing them the cornerstone of their campaigns, most of them lost.
There are at least two threads in this forum that talk about the bike lanes and the various candidates positions, and there is the Frumin v Krucoff thread that also talks about them.

But sure, no one was thinking about them. At all.

:roll:[/quote]

Pfft. Nobody cares about ANC races or any of the Republican candidates. The only thing that matters that happened yesterday was the Silverman, the queen of leftwing white people, was defeated in favor of a business friendly Democrat. That's a political earthquake. [/quote]

I think most people think of ANC representatives as glorified 311 operators. [/quote]
That is literally their job. Except there is somehow the belief among the urbanist crowd that ANCs have real political power and somehow winning an ANC election (or for the vast majority being uncontested) provides some sort of broad policy mandate. It’s totally crazy and honestly getting so out of control that they should just be abolished.[/quote]

:roll: they have so little power that they are such a big risk that they should be abolished. makes sense![/quote]

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