It’s stuck because it wants to be stuck, it’s not like there’s any undeveloped lot, or any area zoned for multifamily that isn’t already using it. If they want new residents and the development and new restaurants that serves those new residents they need to upzone. There’s single family houses 300 feet from the metro stop, there just aren’t enough people per square mile at that density to support a lot of stuff

Nobody is against car owners. I own a car and drive sometimes myself. However the majority of car owners cannot follow the rules. DC issued over 1.6 MILLION tickets last year for speeding, red light running, stop sign running. That is over 5 tickets for every vehicle registered in DC. In an ideal world everyone would get along. However until car owners can generally learn to behave themselves we will have to keep taking lanes away from them to provide buffer space and protection for everyone else because car owners can’t follow basic safety rules.

You probably got downvoted because you are making disingenuous arguments that are easily debunked and clearly grasping for excuses to justify your own unwillingness to give up one of your 6 car lanes for safety.

First of all, there will still be plenty of car lanes on Connecticut, 2 in each direction. No one is stopping anyone from driving. But let’s pretend they are and take a look at the “concerns” about gentrification. Over 50% of pedestrian fatalities are in just wards 7 and 8. Poor and minority residents are the ones most in need of safe infrastructure. It’s also simply incorrect to pretend that bikes are for rich people and cars are for poor people. Of all commute mode types, driving is done by people with the highest income. Car ownership is correlated with income, with most households making above average income owning a car in DC, and half of lower income households owning one.

The whole congestion causing pollution thing is so incredibly ridiculous that I think it’s done as a red herring to make opposition look stupid. So the solution to cars causing pollution is to have more lanes of traffic bringing more cars in? Hilarious

Fair enough, have to prop those tesla shares back up 🤣

I think you are on to something. Parking is a bad policy, but as far as community buy in goes it has merits. However the question is which community you want buy in from. DC has a large percent of car-free households and a much lower vehicle per capita rate than Maryland. The ward 3 candidate opposed to the project just lost the election. Most of the complaints about making it hard to commute in or whatever are from people in Maryland. Maybe there’s some value in listening to them, but they don’t live in DC, don’t vote for their politicians, and don’t have to deal with the 6 lanes of highway noise going through their neighborhood. I think DC might just not care about their buy in at all.

I’m so confused why things like this always generate comments like “What about all the elderly and disabled people who can’t bike? We shouldn’t do this because of them.” That would make sense if they were making Connecticut bike only, but there are still going to be 2 car lanes in each direction, it’s not like they’re banning cars or disability vans or whatever, in fact they still are given the majority of the space and the most number of lanes.

Not reserving 300 square feet of public space for your car is punishing drivers? No need to respond, just know you’re not going to have much success convincing people of that in this city.

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Yep, wards 7 and 8 have by far the highest fatality rates, but disingenuous people who just want to be able to endanger everyone with no consequences will hide between words like equity. Beyond ironic and into disgusting when you look at the actual inequitable rates of pedestrian fatalities.

Really? Cuz cars cause way more injuries and deaths than bikes. I think the shape of the metal actually matters a lot

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