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jsteele wrote:

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jsteele wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

It may not be racist but it is also not accurate. Have you ever participated in an Open Streets event? Your claim is patently false. Attempting to exploit racial tensions based on false statements may or may not be racist, but it is not a good look.

Google footage of Open Streets on Georgia Ave. the crowd is overwhelmingly white even though ward 4 is anything but.

I don't have to Google. I have attended all of the Open Streets events on Georgia Ave. and I can attest to what I saw with my own eyes. The crowd was not overwhelmingly white. Did you attend?

Sounds like you’re admitting that what the actual footage shows does not comport with your memory…

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

It may not be racist but it is also not accurate. Have you ever participated in an Open Streets event? Your claim is patently false. Attempting to exploit racial tensions based on false statements may or may not be racist, but it is not a good look.

Google footage of Open Streets on Georgia Ave. the crowd is overwhelmingly white even though ward 4 is anything but.

I don't have to Google. I have attended all of the Open Streets events on Georgia Ave. and I can attest to what I saw with my own eyes. The crowd was not overwhelmingly white. Did you attend?

Sounds like you’re admitting that what the actual footage shows does not comport with your memory…

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

It may not be racist but it is also not accurate. Have you ever participated in an Open Streets event? Your claim is patently false. Attempting to exploit racial tensions based on false statements may or may not be racist, but it is not a good look.

Google footage of Open Streets on Georgia Ave. the crowd is overwhelmingly white even though ward 4 is anything but.

I don't have to Google. I have attended all of the Open Streets events on Georgia Ave. and I can attest to what I saw with my own eyes. The crowd was not overwhelmingly white. Did you attend?

Sounds like you’re admitting that what the actual footage shows does not comport with your memory…

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Anonymous wrote:These crowds of people blocking the streets shows that nobody likes it is a real weird take.

My kids loved biking Georgia Ave (before it got too crowded) and we visited businesses (book store, restaurant) that we otherwise wouldn't have.

If you want to go to a new book store or restaurant, you could just go do it — like, today. There’s no need to close major roads on a Saturday, when half the city is trying to move around, in order for you to leave your neighborhood.

The major roads are closed today, though. By cars and their drivers. The nice thing about open streets is that the roads are open.

There are more cars in this city than households. Sorry but that’s how people choose to get around. We can’t dedicate all of our public resources to you and the 12 other white guys who are super into bicycles.

The whole idea of Open Streets is to imagine a new way of using streets so they aren’t solely devoted to cars. To encourage other ways of getting around so we don’t have more cars than households.

And people in cars are like, no thanks

No, mostly just you.

The city has been relentlessly promoting bike lanes for 15 years and yet hardly anyone uses them. I’m sorry your anti-car agenda is so unpopular. If you want to get people out of cars, un-suck the subway. That would actually make a difference.

Uhmm.. there's more than a few hundred thousand capital bikeshare rides *each month*... so yeah. Those lanes are used PP.

Uh, huh. If you look at the data, you’ll see there’s fewer people using Capital Bikeshare today than there was five years ago. It has been an unmitigated failure and a massive waste of money.

Um actually no. That's completely not true at all, they set a record ridership in the system for nearly every month this year against the prior records so far.

January 2023? 204,077. January 2017? 174,804.
March 2023? 290,430. March 2017? 245,403.
April 2023? 389,243. That's almost 25,000 more than April 2017's 365,990.

The only month that missed setting a new record was February - which was 207,591 for 2023 vs. a prior peak of 226,303 in 2017. Basically, 2023 is CaBi's best year by a solid margin and 2022 was actually in the running with 2017/2018.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

It may not be racist but it is also not accurate. Have you ever participated in an Open Streets event? Your claim is patently false. Attempting to exploit racial tensions based on false statements may or may not be racist, but it is not a good look.

Google footage of Open Streets on Georgia Ave. the crowd is overwhelmingly white even though ward 4 is anything but.

I don't have to Google. I have attended all of the Open Streets events on Georgia Ave. and I can attest to what I saw with my own eyes. The crowd was not overwhelmingly white. Did you attend?

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

It may not be racist but it is also not accurate. Have you ever participated in an Open Streets event? Your claim is patently false. Attempting to exploit racial tensions based on false statements may or may not be racist, but it is not a good look.

Google footage of Open Streets on Georgia Ave. the crowd is overwhelmingly white even though ward 4 is anything but.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

It may not be racist but it is also not accurate. Have you ever participated in an Open Streets event? Your claim is patently false. Attempting to exploit racial tensions based on false statements may or may not be racist, but it is not a good look.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These crowds of people blocking the streets shows that nobody likes it is a real weird take.

My kids loved biking Georgia Ave (before it got too crowded) and we visited businesses (book store, restaurant) that we otherwise wouldn't have.

If you want to go to a new book store or restaurant, you could just go do it — like, today. There’s no need to close major roads on a Saturday, when half the city is trying to move around, in order for you to leave your neighborhood.

The major roads are closed today, though. By cars and their drivers. The nice thing about open streets is that the roads are open.

There are more cars in this city than households. Sorry but that’s how people choose to get around. We can’t dedicate all of our public resources to you and the 12 other white guys who are super into bicycles.

The whole idea of Open Streets is to imagine a new way of using streets so they aren’t solely devoted to cars. To encourage other ways of getting around so we don’t have more cars than households.

And we all need to work hard to lower our collective carbon footprint; everyone must do their part.

Or, are sane people seriously opposed to that??

Yes, the way to fight climate change is to create traffic jams

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are there only white people at open streets?

That’s not true. That’s made up by mentally ill OP who thinks it’s acceptable to use false accusations of racism to “win” an argument.

It’s not racist to point out that 99 percent of the people at open streets are white