Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Exactly how do you imagine change, OP, when you keep voting Democrat?

Isn’t this how they define insanity?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Relax the height restriction in a sensible way, with preference given to new residential and mixed uses.
2. Improve enforcement of traffic laws with ticket reciprocity and an enforcement division.
3. Improve and densify public spaces, with more events and more control over commerce in public spaces
(this last one is really an NPS issue re: the Mall and downtown parks, but DC sure would benefit from solving it).

A lot of the quality of life things that people cite are actually a function of #1. Downtown isn't dense enough to be fully vibrant without 100% in office workers, and in much of downtown its uses aren't diverse enough. Also, a lot of larger private sector business stays in VA because they can't find contiguous space to expand in DC.

Trying to make DC more suburb-like (with more parking and less bike infrastructure) will never work; the suburbs will always win on that front, and the city has spent decades and millions of dollars undoing the negative consequences of pursuing that strategy from the 50s to the 80s. DC has to lean into what makes it special and interesting and unique, which means emphasizing being around other people and doing cool things. More density downtown and better use of public spaces for events, food, and commerce would bring more people downtown, better traffic enforcement would make the experience of being out and about more pleasant, and a lot of the other stuff people worry about would just follow along. Also, more residential density downtown would raise revenues again to help offset the decline of office space.

i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

LOL. Comparing Tokyo to any city in America is a joke. Drivers actually follow the rules in Tokyo, and they also care about bikers. In America, people will hit a biker with their car and drive away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Relax the height restriction in a sensible way, with preference given to new residential and mixed uses.
2. Improve enforcement of traffic laws with ticket reciprocity and an enforcement division.
3. Improve and densify public spaces, with more events and more control over commerce in public spaces
(this last one is really an NPS issue re: the Mall and downtown parks, but DC sure would benefit from solving it).

A lot of the quality of life things that people cite are actually a function of #1. Downtown isn't dense enough to be fully vibrant without 100% in office workers, and in much of downtown its uses aren't diverse enough. Also, a lot of larger private sector business stays in VA because they can't find contiguous space to expand in DC.

Trying to make DC more suburb-like (with more parking and less bike infrastructure) will never work; the suburbs will always win on that front, and the city has spent decades and millions of dollars undoing the negative consequences of pursuing that strategy from the 50s to the 80s. DC has to lean into what makes it special and interesting and unique, which means emphasizing being around other people and doing cool things. More density downtown and better use of public spaces for events, food, and commerce would bring more people downtown, better traffic enforcement would make the experience of being out and about more pleasant, and a lot of the other stuff people worry about would just follow along. Also, more residential density downtown would raise revenues again to help offset the decline of office space.

i'm sick of hearing about "bike infrastructure". I spent the better part of a month with my sister in Tokyo and our combined 4 kids and we biked everywhere every day with no bike infrastructure. We rode on the shoulder of the road, or the sidewalk, or cut through alleys, and carried coins to park in paid bike parking lots owned by private businesses. It is not the government's job to make people ride bikes and I say this as one of the rare people who bike for most trips when it's above freezing. When I bike in this country the number one annoyance is sexual harassment from lowlifes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Exactly how do you imagine change, OP, when you keep voting Democrat?

Isn’t this how they define insanity?

Anonymous wrote:Geez...just had to drive through downtown DC yesterday (Sunday) and it was such a crawl because it was packed with what I imagine were lots of visitors (and some locals).

It was more crowded than I ever remember pre-COVID...but maybe mid-May is prime DC visiting?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Exactly how do you imagine change, OP, when you keep voting Democrat?

Isn’t this how they define insanity?

Anonymous wrote:Mine

1. Safety
2. Clean up
3. Shopping

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Nice way of letting everyone know that you haven’t bothered to read the Constitution.

The same 250 year old document that allows Americans to arm themselves with unlimited weapons of war? Pardon me while I wipe my a55 with it.

Then by all means go and live somewhere more to your liking.