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Anonymous wrote:How can they plow the bike lanes in Alexandria or the driving lanes because they put up those stupid plastic bowlards. What a waste of taxpayer money!

Yes, what a waste of taxpayer money to limit the risk of serious injury and death to those utilizing - and thereby encouraging the uptake of - forms of transportation that reduce road congestion, reduce vehicle insurance premiums, reduce road maintenance outlays, reduce carbon emissions that cause climate change, reduce noise pollution, and improve cardiovascular health! Such shortsightedness!

Actually they are causing driving accidents because they are in they are impeading the lanes! Making it very dangerous to drive with no shoulder. And with all this snow and ice it's even worse because they can't properly plow with them and it restricts emergency vehicles.

Anonymous wrote:How can they plow the bike lanes in Alexandria or the driving lanes because they put up those stupid plastic bowlards. What a waste of taxpayer money!

Yes, what a waste of taxpayer money to limit the risk of serious injury and death to those utilizing - and thereby encouraging the uptake of - forms of transportation that reduce road congestion, reduce vehicle insurance premiums, reduce road maintenance outlays, reduce carbon emissions that cause climate change, reduce noise pollution, and improve cardiovascular health! Such shortsightedness!

Anonymous wrote:It's actually the best of Muriel Bowser. She spent some effort clearing bike lanes (pissing off the anti-bike people) but most bike lanes are still blocked in many areas like large patches or impassable mountains at the end so they're not usable (pissing off anyone trying to bike). Let's just do it one way or the other.

This has been her MO for years. She has one of her agencies (DCPS, DDOT etc.) propose something (building a new school, putting in a protected bike lane or mixed-use path, changing school boundaries etc.) that attracts a camp of supporters and opponents. Her agencies then launch a length "consultation process" that the supporters and opponents take very seriously. The respective groups have impassioned debates on DCUM, listservs, ANC meetings, neighborhood civic / community association meetings and so forth and commission petitions, leaflets, yard signs, and banners replete with pithy slogans that reflect their own interpretations of whatever has been proposed. Folk on both sides get angry at people on the other side as the battle lines are drawn up, insults are exchanged, long-standing friendships are ruined, and what were previously open and inclusive associations become very secretive. This goes on for years, with trust in neighborhoods falling to historic lows amidst the division over the proposal. Finally, the agency reaches a decision and announces a timeline. The group who didn't gets their way doubles down on whatever back channels to Bowser they can muster and then, on the eve of construction, Bowser (or one of her minions) announces a completely decision that is the complete opposite of whatever came out of the consultation process.

There is a great quote attributed to Saddam Hussein which describes the art of politics as "making a decision, telling his allies he would do one thing, his opponents something else, and then taking a course of action that surprises even himself" (or words to that effect). The mess that has been Bowser's administration seems to approximate that relatively well. We as DC residents - and even more so, our neighborhood institutions - have suffered it as we've wasted our time, money, and energies engaging in participatory processes that Bowser and her minions haven't the slightest bit of respect for. Forums like this and the listservs have done very well out of it.

Anonymous wrote:How can they plow the bike lanes in Alexandria or the driving lanes because they put up those stupid plastic bowlards. What a waste of taxpayer money!

You mean the Menace Tentacles™?

How can they plow the bike lanes in Alexandria or the driving lanes because they put up those stupid plastic bowlards. What a waste of taxpayer money!

OP here. was trolling, bike lines are so triggering. and it worked

It's actually the best of Muriel Bowser. She spent some effort clearing bike lanes (pissing off the anti-bike people) but most bike lanes are still blocked in many areas like large patches or impassable mountains at the end so they're not usable (pissing off anyone trying to bike). Let's just do it one way or the other.

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Anonymous wrote:
Yet somehow you saw the title of the thread, clicked on it, and then took the time to post this message asserting that there is nothing you could “literally” care less about the topic of the thread. How curious. And then you’ll no doubt post a follow-up message doubling down on your assertion that you don’t care.

Welcome to DCUM

Whining about bike lanes when the trash hasn't been picked up in two weeks and kids just got back to school full time seems a little tone deaf.

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Yet somehow you saw the title of the thread, clicked on it, and then took the time to post this message asserting that there is nothing you could “literally” care less about the topic of the thread. How curious. And then you’ll no doubt post a follow-up message doubling down on your assertion that you don’t care.

Welcome to DCUM

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Anonymous wrote:The DC government can’t get around to plowing the bike lanes, but it can send a fleet of diggers at 9pm to tear up a grass easement that probably hasn’t been used for vehicle access since the 1950s.

There is literally nothing I could care less about than whether or not bike lanes were plowed during a snow emergency.

Yet somehow you saw the title of the thread, clicked on it, and then took the time to post this message asserting that there is nothing you could “literally” care less about the topic of the thread. How curious. And then you’ll no doubt post a follow-up message doubling down on your assertion that you don’t care.

Anonymous wrote:The DC government can’t get around to plowing the bike lanes, but it can send a fleet of diggers at 9pm to tear up a grass easement that probably hasn’t been used for vehicle access since the 1950s.

There is literally nothing I could care less about than whether or not bike lanes were plowed during a snow emergency.

The DC government can’t get around to plowing the bike lanes, but it can send a fleet of diggers at 9pm to tear up a grass easement that probably hasn’t been used for vehicle access since the 1950s.

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Anonymous wrote:Thus far in 2026, more people have been killed on the roads (https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/traffic-data) than have been murdered (https://mpdc.dc.gov/am/dailycrime).

It’s wonderful that crime appears to have fallen so sharply and we can only hope that this continues.

However, that so many people are dying on DC roads is unsurprising to many of us who witness that moronic behavior of some drivers on our streets.

You get the award for most egregious misrepresentation of statistics. Here's more than a decade's worth of data, which is a tad more reliable than what random things happened in the past four weeks.

2024: 20 killed by speeding drivers, 187 murdered
2023: 22 killed by speeding drivers, 274 murdered
2022: 9 killed by speeding drivers, 203 murdered
2021: 12 killed by speeding drivers, 226 murdered
2020: 15 killed by speeding drivers, 198 murdered
2019: 10 killed by speeding drivers, 166 murdered
2018: 9 killed by speeding drivers, 160 murdered
2017: 12 killed by speeding drivers, 116 murdered
2016: 8 killed by speeding drivers, 135 murdered
2015: 11 killed by speeding drivers, 162 murdered
2014: 12 killed by speeding drivers, 105 murdered
2013: 11 killed by speeding drivers, 104 murdered

Deliciously ironic that you are accusing someone who is quoting current data and providing a link to the source with “egregiously misrepresenting statistics” when YOU go on to do this in the very next sentence. I’d call it Orwellian, but it’s just disgusting. When people ask you about your hobbies, do you tell them you spend your free time propagating falsehoods that encourage people to engage in behavior that puts others’ lives at risk? You are every bit as reprehensible as those who denied the existence of COVID in April 2020. Please grow a conscience.

You sound crazy.

No one cares. Most people don’t bike to work when it’s 10 degrees outside. It’s more important that the roads are cleared so emergency vehicles can access people throughout the district. The fire department needs to be able to save people from burning buildings and ambulances need to be able to save people who are having heart attacks. You don’t need to bike to work in the snow, you can take the metro, bus, get an Uber, walk, or drive. Biker bros are very entitled and they would rather have grandma die from a heart attack than not be able to bike to the grocery store.

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Anonymous wrote:If there isn't an accident then it doesn't matter. The existence or not of the hypothetical accident is the primary determinent. Accident prevention is what is important.

But that's neither here nor there for this thread. This thread is about the impact bike lanes have had on snow removal and whether resources should be diverted during a snow emergency to clear bike lanes before streets, roads, sidewalks and crosswalks.

This is nuttery. Nowhere in the city had bike lanes cleared before streets, roads, sidewalks and crosswalks. Which is a shame because people need to be able to get around the city safely without having to drive. Stop your conspiracy theory nonsense and remain focus on the true villain: Muriel Bowser and her incompetence.

Lol - we've had quite a few examples shared where that is indeed the case and, although it should be obvious to everyone, you literally just said that it's a shame that that didn't happen more. Jeez, talk about incompetence...