Probably because when a person on a scooter gets run over, people blame being on a scooter rather than a car running them over. In our society it's expected that a car runs over people, but the blame is put on the person who rode the scooter because they should have known a car would run them over.

I don't know a single person who looks down upon car drivers. I do look down on people who prioritize car infrastructure, especially fast car infrastructure over everything else. People who live in the suburbs and want to drive through the city at 40mph. People who oppose bike and tram infrastructure because it may mean reducing car lanes. People whose only solution is to have more cars and make them go faster.

I have a car. I drive. But I almost get hit by a car 20% of the time when running. And I'd like that not to happen.

>Telling people "you need to buy a bike and start pedaling"

I've never heard a bike lane person say this. I've only heard people against bike lanes say this is what being pro bike lane is. I just want to be able to bike places without being in constant danger of being run over by the absurdly bad drivers in the area.

Additionally every bike in a lane is a car not in the road. So transferring a car lane to a bike lane can actually make traffic and parking better and easier.

Today I biked from NE to 18th and U. Without bike lanes I would have taken an Uber creating more traffic in the neighborhoods along the way. As others have said, bike lanes are good for intermediate distances.

Bad all around. First, An increase in electric due to it being cold is normal and comparing the coldest week of the year to previous months is not accurate. Second, You asked your landlord to make a change and they did it on Christmas Eve. They've also regularly been fixing things. That's a pretty good landlord. Burning them over $10 is likely to teach them to respond with "The condition of the windows is the same upon move in and while it may take slightly higher utilities That's why the unit is priced slightly lower".

Overall while it may be annoying that you had to deal with that, it's probably best to chock some things up to people being human. That type of flexibility will likely net better results than repaying Christmas Eve work by asking for money back.

If bills are tight due to utilities you might also qualify for DC's utility assistance program.

Keep in mind that crossing a street in DC is more dangerous than flying on a commercial airline. So "more dangerous" is relative and modern aircraft are generally amazingly safe.

Is it my turn?

Dan's Cafe.

> Crime exists

> Conservatives: doesn't this just make you want to remove social programs, give that money to rich people, and increasingly destroy poorer communities?

> Radical Dems: ...no

> Conservatives: The left doesn't care about crime!!!

I'm also frustrated by the recent increase in crime. But thankfully I understand that many of society's problems are complex problems which can't be solved immediately. That we need to take gains where possible and evaluate additional changes as time goes on. There definitely are some changes I'd like to see be made.

But in general it hasn't caused me to want to completely dismantle social programs and deny large swaths of people basic rights.

I kind of agree but now we're seeing the flip side. Where there is such confidence in non-enforcement that people stop caring about following safe driving laws.

I'm not saying that immediate chases for running a red light need to occur. But where we are is clearly bad.

It's absolutely frustrating how intentionally bad people drive. Running stoplights, never stopping for stop signs, not even looking for pedestrians when actually stopping at stop signs, speeding through alleys, straddling lanes and bike lanes, turning right from a middle lane to bypass a line, passing people on a one lane road by cutting through the bike lane. I've seen most of these multiple times in the last two weeks and I don't even drive.

It's not a surprise that pedestrians die regularly.

Excuse me, with these coming changes it will only take between 54 and 84 minutes.

I can't help but feel making things uncomfortable on purpose will lead to it being less usable in general. Kind of like all the silver line metro stations being elevated, exposed, and kind of difficult to walk to.