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  • December 31, 2012 at 4:32 pm #912623
    creadinger
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    You guessed it, the Washington Times…
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/30/simmons-walkability-bicycle-lanes-no-answer-to-gri/?page=1

    And to borrow a few lines from Billy Madison, I now feel dumber for having read it. At no point did she coherently string together words or phrases to complete a valid thought or idea. Page 2 is absolute nonsense as it’s about reality TV and the color of people who shop at P-City mall… WTF? Did I miss something, or did the Times link together the wrong pages of an article?

    She also did not offer even a thought for an alternative solution to solving commuter gridlock by eliminating walking, mass transit and bikes from her equation… just that she doesn’t like them. Bikes are yucky and pedestrians are too poor to buy a car in her estimation.

    The only good thing is that this opinion piece is so bad, it doesn’t leave me argumentative knowing there’s someone with an opposing opinion to my ideas about urban transportation, it left me utterly confused about what the hell she was talking about.

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  • December 31, 2012 at 4:53 pm #958595
    KLizotte
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    I agree that the switch from urban planning to “demographics” was like undergoing whiplash. I also noted that one of our own forum members, OneEighth, is the pictured cyclist in the article.

    December 31, 2012 at 5:01 pm #958596
    birddog
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    it’s surprising what they will pay a person to do these days

    December 31, 2012 at 5:06 pm #958597
    KelOnWheels
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    I… what…

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    December 31, 2012 at 5:07 pm #958598
    ShawnoftheDread
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    Is that OneEighth in the top photo?

    December 31, 2012 at 5:15 pm #958600
    ShawnoftheDread
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    It’s actually two separate topics in one column. I’m sure the print edition would have a three-dot break or other obvious transition beginning at “Who are we?”

    December 31, 2012 at 5:19 pm #958601
    Certifried
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    I think that the entire article onions cooking in a pan make the cat shaving diabolical girl scouts sell cookies.

    December 31, 2012 at 5:23 pm #958602
    bobco85
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    @ShawnoftheDread 39144 wrote:

    It’s actually two separate topics in one column. I’m sure the print edition would have a three-dot break or other obvious transition beginning at “Who are we?”

    I’m starting to think that it’s a typo and the second half of the article is actually supposed to be for another column.

    That said, I think this feathery-light column that barely even brushes on the topic of transportation for commuters in/out of DC could be improved if she had used the proper type of medium and format for spur-of-the-moment opinionated, shallow conversation: Twitter.

    December 31, 2012 at 5:35 pm #958603
    TwoWheelsDC
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    Okay, so Asian tourists are the problem?

    December 31, 2012 at 5:47 pm #958604
    creadinger
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    I read it as basketball wives and nooks are the reason driving in the district is increasingly more difficult.

    And along those lines…. who the heck says driving in the (increasingly) walk, bike friendly District is difficult?? I mean sure, if you don’t know exactly where you’re going navigation can be tricky like in any city, but I’m from a small town in PA and I handle driving in DC no problem. It’s not like DC has cordoned off blocks of space where cars are banned creating high density, shopping, eating, drinking, pedstrian zones…. no, it would be unamerican if you can’t drive to it! It would also be awesome… but the city is clearly still car-centric and heavily so.

    December 31, 2012 at 6:02 pm #958605
    KelOnWheels
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    OK, I think I figured it out.

    I used Google Translate to convert it into French, the language of bicycles, then German, the language of cars, then Dutch, the language of quaint urban bike lane trends, then Japanese, the language of mall-shopping Asian tourists, then back to English.

    Has continued to claim the right to staff of DC to vote in Congress, plans to walking or cycling, the city city is accustomed to the right along the transport network to pilot a good few improved roads and unclogged future you.

    While 37% is expected to increase the number of jobs, in 2040, this region, the increase in population of more than 1.3 million people will be displayed.

    On the other hand, that the Board of Directors of the models also predict regional transportation planning, training 27% increase in travel time, an increase of 28% and is expected to urban transport for travel.

    These estimates suggest that the state and local governments should start planning now.

    That means the problem is. In this way, the state and local planning and reflection, all of its own silo

    For example, from 1999 until 2010 served on the subway, a group of leaders in regional transportation issues for council member Jim Graham, DC, District 1 Democratic Party, he was twice president. He pushed the trolley instead, federal and local government funding how to expand the bus, expand, and he fought to maintain the bus tickets.

    This is the kind of thinking that we are immersed as a dead end.

    Local authorities provide maintenance and repair program say the subway, and does not provide funds to the second in the past two thousand and twenty new warning

    To check whether the movement or “cliff” fiscal we control “slope” is for sure one should chew gum at the same time go for a staff member of the DC to learn.

    Come in handy in the city and easy to walk and press the voting rights of cyclists for what might be trends in the picturesque city, Prince William and Loudon County, Virginia, this policy, Charles Frederick, Howard commute with direct current in the opposite direction are not synchronized, such as commuting from the region and in the real world, An’aranderu County, Maryland, he came into the city.

    This is the only way you can live the life of a family even if you have a car, to keep most of them.

    December 31, 2012 at 6:13 pm #958606
    jrenaut
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    I totally agree that commuters from Herndon driving into DC should be the absolute top priority for DC leaders. It is also VITAL that we have the correct ethnic and racial demographics at each point in and around the District. For example, I have noticed a distinct lack of Pacific Islanders in my neighborhood, and I want my Councilmember, Jim Graham, to go find some and bus them here RIGHT NOW.

    December 31, 2012 at 6:27 pm #958607
    creadinger
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    @jrenaut 39150 wrote:

    I totally agree that commuters from Herndon driving into DC should be the absolute top priority for DC leaders. It is also VITAL that we have the correct ethnic and racial demographics at each point in and around the District. For example, I have noticed a distinct lack of Pacific Islanders in my neighborhood, and I want my Councilmember, Jim Graham, to go find some and bus them here RIGHT NOW.

    Just schedule a Spam festival or some sort of Spam cook-off and you’ll be swimming in Pacific Islanders and Hawaiians. That would be a good use of DC funds.

    December 31, 2012 at 6:33 pm #958608
    DaveK
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    Anyone who says driving in DC is hard has never done it outside of rush hour. Driving in the District is straight-up easy. I’d go so far as to say that outside of rush hours, so is parking. Try Boston or New York sometime, then come back and tell me it’s hard to get around this city in a car.

    I’ll let you all in on a little secret too – I don’t care if it’s hard to get into the city in the morning and out in the evening. That’s why we have trains. What we should be doing is making it easier to get buses in and out of the city during the rush.

    December 31, 2012 at 7:29 pm #958614
    Vicegrip
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    My mental suffer score was 317 after reading the article.

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