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Anonymous wrote:Someone please run against Nadeau...she is clueless

She just got re-elected

Anonymous wrote:Someone please run against Nadeau...she is clueless

Anonymous wrote:I'm gonna need a reality check on this "downtown is in freefall" commentary. Because when I am working downtown, rush hour traffic is as miserable as it was pre-pandemic, and all of the lunch spots around my office are packed. The rhetoric just doesn't jive with what I see with my own eyes.

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So commercial real estate (which provides a large amount of tax revenue to DC) is tanking---especially in downtown. DC needs to be doing everything it can to get people to come downtown and spend money because downtown is slowly becoming a crime-ridden ghost town like it was in the 1980s and 90s. Not everyone is a 30 yo bicyclist. People coming downtown for a business dinner aren't going to be cycling. People taking grandparents and kids to the Warner Theater for a show are not going to bicycle and older people with mobility challenges find metro difficult. If you want to discourage people from driving themselves, then don't tax the uber drivers.


People coming downtown for a business dinner or going to the warner theatre can't afford an extra $2?

This is the type of "soak the rich" mentality that contributed to DC's decline in the 80s and 90s. Downtown is in freefall. Now is NOT the time to pile on. The tipped wage legislation has already resulted in higher restaurant prices. Now let's pile on and make getting to the restaurant more expensive, so that increasingly it is only the very wealthy who can afford to come into DC.
If they had wanted to do this surcharge in 2019---pre-covid when downtown was booming---that might have been different. But people actively avoid downtown now---both for work and for pleasure. Nadeau and Allen seem determined to return downtown DC to a crime-ridden hellscape.

Piling on? For an additional $2, you are having someone theoretically drive across the city, pick you up at your door, and drive you to your chosen location. Seems reasonable for the price of convenience.

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So commercial real estate (which provides a large amount of tax revenue to DC) is tanking---especially in downtown. DC needs to be doing everything it can to get people to come downtown and spend money because downtown is slowly becoming a crime-ridden ghost town like it was in the 1980s and 90s. Not everyone is a 30 yo bicyclist. People coming downtown for a business dinner aren't going to be cycling. People taking grandparents and kids to the Warner Theater for a show are not going to bicycle and older people with mobility challenges find metro difficult. If you want to discourage people from driving themselves, then don't tax the uber drivers.


People coming downtown for a business dinner or going to the warner theatre can't afford an extra $2?

This is the type of "soak the rich" mentality that contributed to DC's decline in the 80s and 90s. Downtown is in freefall. Now is NOT the time to pile on. The tipped wage legislation has already resulted in higher restaurant prices. Now let's pile on and make getting to the restaurant more expensive, so that increasingly it is only the very wealthy who can afford to come into DC.
If they had wanted to do this surcharge in 2019---pre-covid when downtown was booming---that might have been different. But people actively avoid downtown now---both for work and for pleasure. Nadeau and Allen seem determined to return downtown DC to a crime-ridden hellscape.

Anonymous wrote:Two people ran against her and lost, so people must like her more than dislike her.

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So commercial real estate (which provides a large amount of tax revenue to DC) is tanking---especially in downtown. DC needs to be doing everything it can to get people to come downtown and spend money because downtown is slowly becoming a crime-ridden ghost town like it was in the 1980s and 90s. Not everyone is a 30 yo bicyclist. People coming downtown for a business dinner aren't going to be cycling. People taking grandparents and kids to the Warner Theater for a show are not going to bicycle and older people with mobility challenges find metro difficult. If you want to discourage people from driving themselves, then don't tax the uber drivers.


People coming downtown for a business dinner or going to the warner theatre can't afford an extra $2?

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Hate the fact that she championed the $2 Uber fare surcharge that starts in August. $2 Tax Surcharge for rides that start or end in "high traffic" areas in DC. HATE HER!


Two whole dollars? Boo frickin hoo. You car commuters inconvenience our city for a hella lot more than $2 per trip.

So commercial real estate (which provides a large amount of tax revenue to DC) is tanking---especially in downtown. DC needs to be doing everything it can to get people to come downtown and spend money because downtown is slowly becoming a crime-ridden ghost town like it was in the 1980s and 90s. Not everyone is a 30 yo bicyclist. People coming downtown for a business dinner aren't going to be cycling. People taking grandparents and kids to the Warner Theater for a show are not going to bicycle and older people with mobility challenges find metro difficult. If you want to discourage people from driving themselves, then don't tax the uber drivers.

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Hate the fact that she championed the $2 Uber fare surcharge that starts in August. $2 Tax Surcharge for rides that start or end in "high traffic" areas in DC. HATE HER!


Two whole dollars? Boo frickin hoo. You car commuters inconvenience our city for a hella lot more than $2 per trip.

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Anonymous wrote:Hate the fact that she championed the $2 Uber fare surcharge that starts in August. $2 Tax Surcharge for rides that start or end in "high traffic" areas in DC. HATE HER!

Two whole dollars? Boo frickin hoo. You car commuters inconvenience our city for a hella lot more than $2 per trip.