ezracycle.bsky.social
Transportation without representation.
The joys and pains of biking in DC and beyond.
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If this is someone who is regularly in your life it might be interesting to have them make a list of various costs they pay now and then check back in 6 months and see if those costs have gone up or down
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This week I:
1) Lived
2) Laughed
3) Loved
Please contact my supervisor if you have any follow up questions about the mission-critical work I do for our agency.
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the captian power man is so good. well done.
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Yeah I take a photo (or try to memorize the number, good skill to have if there's ever an actual crash). Probably for the best that 99% of the time I can't confront them about it
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The frustrating thing is there's almost never time to check the plate before they drive off
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Smells less bad and you have to take it out way less often
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OK as an update there are a bunch more sites on this map now -- previously ward 1 didn't have any but now it has four, one of which I have seen with my very own eyes. Excited to try it out.
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You should go everywhere as fast as you want and anyone who tries to stop you puts their own life in danger. It's why the GOP hates speed cameras (TX has banned them statewide). They also hate mass transit or anything that, god forbid, takes public money to give everyone a shared experience
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The "why" is because everything about the modern GOP overlaps with car culture and car supremacy -- cities are bad, so live in the suburbs and drive everywhere. Climate change is a hoax, so don't worry about all your emissions. Never have to talk to or interact with the people around you.
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My goodness Phil look in a mirror and think about what you just said.
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him.
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of course if you are asking WHY the trump admin wants to get rid of congestion pricing even though it doesn't cost the state or the federal government anything, that's another story...
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It doesn't need federal or state funds, it generates revenue and more than pays for itself. The legal mechanism by which trump is trying to end it is retroactively withdrawing federal approval, needed for any tolls added to roads which feds contributed to. Biden admin gave this approval
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How many of the eight or so Ward 3 grocery stores would still have chosen to open there even if the city hadn't built the 80,000 seat Tenleytown Colosseum?
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How many new grocery stores have been attracted by Audi Field?
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Yeah but the options are extremely limited to the point that it doesn't feel fair to exclude those neighborhoods from this pilot
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Really feels like they shouldn't have taken the farmers market locations into account... They are only available a few hours a week (often multiple sites use the same hours) for part of the year. Not really reliable for getting people to compost regularly
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Zoom link available at www.anc1c.org (look on the calendar on the right side).
please spread the word!
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mazel tov on the new job -- thanks for all your great reporting at City Paper and I certainly hope they can find a good replacement for you!!
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OK -- well the ultimate question still stands, which is, how many parking spaces does she want to build (and how do we trust her to stick to that number)?
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We can have it all -- regular parking spaces, extra wide parking spaces, compact parking spaces, EV charging parking spaces, and even uber pickup and drop off zones!
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According to @nsementelli.bsky.social at GGW, a stadium that wants to host the super bowl needs to have at least 35,000 parking spaces. Does she plan to push for that many at the RFK site? With fewer than 35K spaces, how does she plan to get the NFL to host the super bowl there?
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Thank you for reporting on this! If you have a chance to ask her any questions, I'd love to know how many parking spaces she envisions for a stadium -- that will tell us a lot about how serious she is that we can have "everything" on the site.
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Just to add, I know for a fact the shadow senators get these as well. Michael Strauss drives obnoxiously. Ankit Jain doesn't have a car so presumably that plate is not being used.
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Or how DC renamed swann street a few years ago to be named after a different Swann
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Did you see this public comment period from the DC metro about slightly extending a vent from a particular station? They even had a public meeting about it. www.wmata.com/initiatives/...
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I was a small part of the group collecting signatures for I-83. We only needed 5% (and the issue was, as we learned in the election, overwhelmingly popular) and even that was very difficult. I feel confident these folks will not get the signatures they need, let alone win an election.
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Strongly support this move, thank you for helping bring attention to what is happening!!
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It's 10% for a recall, no? code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/counci...
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just ask the people who tried to recall Nadeau and Allen, neither of whom were able to get the required signatures (or come close)
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Having collected signatures for I-83, I can tell you that it takes an enormous amount of work, money, and organizing to get signatures from just 5% of voters, on an issue that ended up being supported by three quarters of the city. Getting 10% for a recall is a huge lift
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Exactly -- the founders assumed that each branch would naturally want to guard and use its own power as much as possible. They didn't count on the rise of political parties and leaders who are more loyal to their party than they are to their branch of government.
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So, uh....what's going on?
gift link to the NYT piece: www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/r...
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The house has been under renovation for several years. It was originally supposed to open in fall 2023. Then the website said spring 2024. A year ago, the NYT did a story on the renovation and cited an opening date of fall 2024. Now, the website just says it's closed with no projected opening date.
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OK apparently it is in a private collection (ie, someone who used to live in DC ended up with the sign, brought it with him when he moved to Chicago, and it now sits in his backyard)
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So they started the process of switching the car to DC with the intent of completing it, did the first part (inspection) and then gave up? I might give them the benefit of the doubt if it wasn't for all those tickets
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is there a reason you would do one but not the other...?
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Correction, I noticed that one of the tickets was in fact for a moving violation (running a red light). As far as I know there's no way to get info on the other 50 tickets but I sure am curious!
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By the way the car also has a DC inspection sticker in the windshield, which must be very unusual in its native Texas.
Perhaps it had been a DC registered car and the owner switched the registration to TX to avoid paying tickets.
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I like your photos by the way! Check out my Amsterdam Falafel photos if I haven't mentioned them before: www.flickr.com/photos/ezrad...
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I will try to find more details. It might have been this spot: salvageone.com. I suppose you could call them tomorrow and ask if you really are curious!
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A friend in Chicago told me that the sign for pharmacy bar is hanging out in some kind of art studio there...