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Anonymous wrote:I am not a bike lane fan but the issue is they can't find many willing to come work for MPD, not that there is no $ to pay them. Attrition is outpacing hiring many months. Agree that bike lanes are not a high priority for many reasons at this time, including safety. With all the carjacking, fake or missing tags and lack of traffic enforcement, biking is extremely risky imho.

The Council unanimously funded MPD below the amount needed to retain officers in 2020, and explicitly said at the time that there goal was to shrink the force. Now they seem to have back tracked a bit (someone would have to do a deep dive into the budget numbers to really say for sure), but part of the problem with MPD numbers is trying to undo the hole the Council intentionally put the force in.

Anonymous wrote:I am not a bike lane fan but the issue is they can't find many willing to come work for MPD, not that there is no $ to pay them. Attrition is outpacing hiring many months. Agree that bike lanes are not a high priority for many reasons at this time, including safety. With all the carjacking, fake or missing tags and lack of traffic enforcement, biking is extremely risky imho.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

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NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

Is anyone actually focusing on bike lanes except people posting on this board? The project is being reworked in some fashion in some office of D.C. government that is responsible for traffic and planning, not for crime. My Ward 3 ANC (which is near, but not on, Connecticut) never discusses bike lanes at all, from what I can tell from the agendas. Unless your argument is that because there is crime, no one should ever do anything else in the entire city government, I don't see what the problem is with the bike lanes proceeding.

I think the context for these comments is the sheer number of hours the ANCs spent on pushing for bike lanes the past three years completely dwarfs the number of hours they spent advocating for getting schools open and pushing for crime resources, which are separate but as we are seeing are very related issues. Bike lanes are now a symbol of frivolous, unserious pet projects.

It’s even worse. They cannot effectively govern. They know they are stupid and incapable people, so they turn to things like bike lanes to distract from their failures.

They're not supposed to govern! They aren't the legislature for each neighborhood. If you have a problem with ANCs now, imagine how you'd like them if they actually had any real power.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

Is anyone actually focusing on bike lanes except people posting on this board? The project is being reworked in some fashion in some office of D.C. government that is responsible for traffic and planning, not for crime. My Ward 3 ANC (which is near, but not on, Connecticut) never discusses bike lanes at all, from what I can tell from the agendas. Unless your argument is that because there is crime, no one should ever do anything else in the entire city government, I don't see what the problem is with the bike lanes proceeding.

I think the context for these comments is the sheer number of hours the ANCs spent on pushing for bike lanes the past three years completely dwarfs the number of hours they spent advocating for getting schools open and pushing for crime resources, which are separate but as we are seeing are very related issues. Bike lanes are now a symbol of frivolous, unserious pet projects.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

Is anyone actually focusing on bike lanes except people posting on this board? The project is being reworked in some fashion in some office of D.C. government that is responsible for traffic and planning, not for crime. My Ward 3 ANC (which is near, but not on, Connecticut) never discusses bike lanes at all, from what I can tell from the agendas. Unless your argument is that because there is crime, no one should ever do anything else in the entire city government, I don't see what the problem is with the bike lanes proceeding.

I think the context for these comments is the sheer number of hours the ANCs spent on pushing for bike lanes the past three years completely dwarfs the number of hours they spent advocating for getting schools open and pushing for crime resources, which are separate but as we are seeing are very related issues. Bike lanes are now a symbol of frivolous, unserious pet projects.

It’s even worse. They cannot effectively govern. They know they are stupid and incapable people, so they turn to things like bike lanes to distract from their failures.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

Is anyone actually focusing on bike lanes except people posting on this board? The project is being reworked in some fashion in some office of D.C. government that is responsible for traffic and planning, not for crime. My Ward 3 ANC (which is near, but not on, Connecticut) never discusses bike lanes at all, from what I can tell from the agendas. Unless your argument is that because there is crime, no one should ever do anything else in the entire city government, I don't see what the problem is with the bike lanes proceeding.

I think the context for these comments is the sheer number of hours the ANCs spent on pushing for bike lanes the past three years completely dwarfs the number of hours they spent advocating for getting schools open and pushing for crime resources, which are separate but as we are seeing are very related issues. Bike lanes are now a symbol of frivolous, unserious pet projects.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

Is anyone actually focusing on bike lanes except people posting on this board? The project is being reworked in some fashion in some office of D.C. government that is responsible for traffic and planning, not for crime. My Ward 3 ANC (which is near, but not on, Connecticut) never discusses bike lanes at all, from what I can tell from the agendas. Unless your argument is that because there is crime, no one should ever do anything else in the entire city government, I don't see what the problem is with the bike lanes proceeding.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

Is anyone actually focusing on bike lanes except people posting on this board? The project is being reworked in some fashion in some office of D.C. government that is responsible for traffic and planning, not for crime. My Ward 3 ANC (which is near, but not on, Connecticut) never discusses bike lanes at all, from what I can tell from the agendas. Unless your argument is that because there is crime, no one should ever do anything else in the entire city government, I don't see what the problem is with the bike lanes proceeding.

Hard to see DC in a growing fiscal crisis spending millions for bike lanes when there is no money to put even a few MPD cops on bikes.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

Is anyone actually focusing on bike lanes except people posting on this board? The project is being reworked in some fashion in some office of D.C. government that is responsible for traffic and planning, not for crime. My Ward 3 ANC (which is near, but not on, Connecticut) never discusses bike lanes at all, from what I can tell from the agendas. Unless your argument is that because there is crime, no one should ever do anything else in the entire city government, I don't see what the problem is with the bike lanes proceeding.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

+1. Exponentially more people have been violently victimized by criminals on the Connecticut Ave corridor than cyclists injured by cars. Yet our ANCs have a myopic focus on . . . bike lanes. It’s completely dystopian.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.

Three attempted carjackings in Ward 3 last night before they were successful over by Foxhall Road.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

+1

NP here. I lived in that neighborhood in the 90's, when Hechinger was there, and frequented that Hechinger. It was a place I felt safe as a single woman, coming and going. It doesn't seem that way any more.

You overwhelmingly elected a councilman who wants to make your neighborhood more “welcoming.”

I love it when people gripe after getting exactly what they voted for. Policy isn’t something you say to sound nice on the internet. It has real world consequences that even include whether or not you’ll get shot on a random shopping trip.

Scaremongering. How many people have been shot on a random shopping trip in Ward 3 in a decade? That's right. Precisely 0.

Talk to everyone carjacked in Ward 3 this year. No shootings because they surrendered their car. This was unheard of in the 2010s.