Anonymous wrote:Metro doesn’t have a funding problem. They have an internal culture problem that money can’t fix.

+1

Always has.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there’s *space* for more car friendliness. Do you want to replace the national mall with parking lots?

They actually looked at building one underneath which would have been a dream idea. They also need to stop this development nonsense, especially building multi families and apt buildings without dedicated parking . It's chaotic. And btw I don't own a car and I pretty much walk/bus. Metro makes me shudder.

There's one underneath Boston Common. It's not that big a deal.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we should do the opposite. Discourage car use. I am serious.

100% agree
-- bike commuter

As if everyone can ride a bike, lol.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there’s *space* for more car friendliness. Do you want to replace the national mall with parking lots?

They actually looked at building one underneath which would have been a dream idea. They also need to stop this development nonsense, especially building multi families and apt buildings without dedicated parking . It's chaotic. And btw I don't own a car and I pretty much walk/bus. Metro makes me shudder.

(1) The proposed plan for building parking under the mall was mostly to accommodate tourist parking, including the giant tour buses. It likely would not have been priced or accessible in a way that improve parking for daily commuters, beyond reducing some of the load on downtown parking.

(2) Multi-family developments in DC are almost always required to incorporate dedicated parking. However, multi-family buildings are also more likely to attract residents who are not car-dependent, because people live in these buildings precisely because of their proximity to work and commercial areas. Building more multi-family development close to commercial and transportation hubs should reduce traffic congestion because it allows more people to live without cars. Likewise, restricting multi-family development forces more people to the suburbs, increases commutes, and increases reliance on cars.

Tesla is working on it. Your car doesn't need to sit in a city garage waiting for you or home while you are at work. It can drive other people around and make you money at all times. We all won't need cars in the future. The parking garages can be build into homes.

Metro doesn’t have a funding problem. They have an internal culture problem that money can’t fix.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we should do the opposite. Discourage car use. I am serious.

100% agree
-- bike commuter

+1 also agree. Commuter tax to fund and improve Metro!

+2 also agree. We DO NOT need more cars. The lessened traffic as a result of the pandemic has been great.

Yes! We are SO TIRED of the crazy commuters who smoke weed and speed like crazy through our residential streets. You fled to the suburbs for the lower taxes and neo-segregationist housing, so it's now on you if you got the commute from hell!

Its funny that you simultaneously are being racist while robotically repeating anti-racist talking points.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there’s *space* for more car friendliness. Do you want to replace the national mall with parking lots?

They actually looked at building one underneath which would have been a dream idea. They also need to stop this development nonsense, especially building multi families and apt buildings without dedicated parking . It's chaotic. And btw I don't own a car and I pretty much walk/bus. Metro makes me shudder.

Right now what’s going on is that the entire academic field of urban planning has willfully misunderstood how causation works. There is literally one study on “induced demand” that proves the invaluable point that if you build or expand a freeway, a couple decades later it will be congested. So they idiotically believe that if you take away road capacity it decreases congestion and this idea has basically taken over the zeitgeist. Meanwhile, while these people are trying to turn cities into medieval villages, the biggest economic growth in the region is happening in Fairfax.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we should do the opposite. Discourage car use. I am serious.

100% agree
-- bike commuter

+1 also agree. Commuter tax to fund and improve Metro!

+2 also agree. We DO NOT need more cars. The lessened traffic as a result of the pandemic has been great.

Yes! We are SO TIRED of the crazy commuters who smoke weed and speed like crazy through our residential streets. You fled to the suburbs for the lower taxes and neo-segregationist housing, so it's now on you if you got the commute from hell!

Anonymous wrote:We need to make metro free, that’s its only hope.

It currently is free. Payment is only voluntary.

Anonymous wrote:Yep, nobody wants to take public trans anymore. I work with families in Ward 7 and can't give away Smartrip cards. The demand is for gas cards, or Uber/Lyft cards.

If you are giving away things, people shouldn't "demand" anything.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we should do the opposite. Discourage car use. I am serious.

100% agree
-- bike commuter

+1 also agree. Commuter tax to fund and improve Metro!

To be quite serious for a moment, how much money does Metro need? Now that they have the dedicated funding from local tax revenue the outcome is that they DGAF. However, it was sworn up and down that with dedicated funding it would be the exact opposite. We were told that they lack of dedicated funding was the constraint on good performance. What we have learned instead is that the only way that Metro was incentivized to perform well was because they had to make a case to local governments for funding to bridge budget gaps. So we got the long list of funny strategies with funnier names, the last being “Back to Good” . But now they don’t even pretend to care. When the stimulus fund run out, there is a fiscal cliff coming for WMATA and it’s not going to be good. The biggest problem though is that there is no longer an option to privatize the system because they have now issued all of these bonds. Anyone that actually cares about transit in DC should never have the knee jerk reaction of just throwing more money at WMATA. It’s a bottomless pit and an unlimited supply of money will never fix it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we should do the opposite. Discourage car use. I am serious.

100% agree
-- bike commuter

+1 also agree. Commuter tax to fund and improve Metro!

+2 also agree. We DO NOT need more cars. The lessened traffic as a result of the pandemic has been great.

Anonymous wrote:Especially if the freedom convoy is headed to DC.

I’m having daydreams about trucks totally blocking off access to the city for weeks.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there’s *space* for more car friendliness. Do you want to replace the national mall with parking lots?

They actually looked at building one underneath which would have been a dream idea. They also need to stop this development nonsense, especially building multi families and apt buildings without dedicated parking . It's chaotic. And btw I don't own a car and I pretty much walk/bus. Metro makes me shudder.