When a person driving a car executes a right on red it is extremely dangerous for people walking and biking. People still do them all the time here.

> Borrow some kids if you don’t have your own

Do any of the library systems give out loaners?

They meant inspired by the kitchens that the chefs have at home, where they keep their frozen pizza and Jack Daniels.

ah here we go, found the source! Thanks for the tip.

I’m always too late to catch this site before the fire gets put out. What’s it look like during an active fire?

is the coleslaw thing a meme? i must know the source

but… will MD drivers be driving the Lyfts?

explain

in the US frequently you can murder someone who was walking or biking with your car and as long as you stayed on scene and were not drunk you will face no consequences.

Courts, law enforcement and public opinion are more inconsistent about this point unfortunately

The way motorists describe it, you'd think that DC is some kind of reverse-guerrilla warfare battlefield, where cyclists and pedestrians are lying in ambush around every corner and crouched behind every waist-high object, waiting to spring out in front of them and commit suicide-by-car.

A popular theory is that in 2020, the amount of congestion decreased, which meant motorists spent more time driving at higher speeds that both increased both the likelihood that they would hit someone and the likelihood that hitting someone would kill them.

I don't think the article is super rigorous about making this point but the bit where they talk to Polly Trottenberg strongly suggests it.

imo when someone gets in a giant death machine and turns it on and starts flinging it at deadly speeds through densely populated areas for their own benefit, the responsibility lies with them to do no harm.

Yeah!! So much excitement and whooping and clapping 🥳

> Did I want to drive or endure the stench of the hoards of the unwashed on public transportation? It never even occurred to me to ask for, much less demand quality and affordable housing where it was heavily in demand. I suppose if I had, I knew the sort of reply I would get.

> But if they have to endure spending two hours on a bus each morning to commute to work, better them than me. And I expect as they find more lucrative work closer to home for them to take it. Jack up the costs of goods and services for me. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

How can you complain about the exact quality of life issues that a chronic housing shortage causes in the same breath that you oppose fixing that same shortage? How can you argue for people to make hard sacrifices as some kind of shitty performance art about how things are “supposed” to work, when zoning is an artificial distortion creating unnatural housing conditions to begin with? How can you say “better them than me” when the point of legalizing conversions to MMH is that no one has to lose?

> I have all the sympathy in the world for the working poor you just described, but were too cowardly to call them. I think they deserve social assistance. Like free healthcare, like a livable minimum wage, and many other progressive entitlements.

Those things which we both think they deserve are not what is on the table before us today and neither of us has the power to fiat them into being so I frankly do not care. The imminent possibility of legalizing MMH is what’s real. Arlington can be better and the means to accomplish that is staring us all in the face. But instead you throw this literal “I don’t hate the poors BUT” nonsense at me and call me the coward.

SFH-exclusive zoning in a place that has the jobs and transit options that working people need is a ridiculous handout to the people who need it the least. Rich asshole NIMBYs or no, I’ll stick with the side trying to do some good.

What does changing the zoning code have to do with subsidies? This isn’t just a selfish argument, or just thinly veiled hatred for everyone who depends on wage income or state assistance for a living, but your argument is not even factually correct.

The fact of the matter is that the people who make Arlington function from day to day are forced to commute in from farther and farther out, which is awful for their cost of living and quality of life. It’s absolutely disgusting to say that the people serving our drinks, cleaning our offices, delivering our pizzas, walking our dogs, driving our buses and caring for our disabled and elderly don’t deserve to afford to live where they work. And you treat them like burdens to cast away!

It’s way past time to legalize MMH. If that drives people who think like you to pack up and go somewhere where you don’t feel like you’re “subsidizing people who consume more than they contribute”, all the better.

I live here. I say it’s time to upzone. I’m sick of seeing my friends leaving because the rents are rising and pushing them out. I’m sick of seeing the people who stay forced to make difficult sacrifices every day to make rent.

I’m a constituent and I say yes. Arlington has too few homes for too many people and its zoning code is the culprit. Time for change.

holy fucking shit, thanks I hate it