Agreed! A $2 train ticket to save $200+ on a flight is a great deal.

hate it when that happens

long horse

DC does not have extremely abundant natural gas and oil fields to generate royalties. Really dumb take here.

Thanks for the nice post.

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Ohhhh yep, that's the one.

What other solutions? Comprehensive economic and sociol transformation?

If there were an easy, efficient answer to this problem, it would have been implemented by now.

We should be ok with all-of-above strategies and be prepared to stop doing things that have low evidence of efficacy (including shrinking police budgets if it's proven that they aren't helpful).

Yeah, I'm just skeptical that having complicated bike lanes weaving in and out of traffic and highly walkable areas makes a lot of sense. DC is a massive tourist destination and out of town people don't understand how these lanes work. Piling layer upon layer of transportation has diminishing returns.

I would rather see some dedicated bike streets (close a couple E/W N/S streets for cars and repurpose them for only bikes).

$1.1 M doesn't sound like that much to prevent a homicide, to me.

Both morally and economically, that feels like a worthwhile investment.

By that weird beer castle on new Hampshire.

Not sure if you can make the case that crime is trending down when murders increased 6 out of the last 10 years pre pandemic.

A professional, trustworthy police force is just as valuable, and there's research that shows more visible cops reduce crime.

>adding a new police officer to a city prevents between 0.06 and 0.1 homicides, which means that the average city would need to hire between 10 and 17 new police officers to save one life a year.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/04/20/988769793/when-you-add-more-police-to-a-city-what-happens

Mental health and economic opportunities are important, but there's no shortage of jobs in the DC area. And, I would speculate that DC dovotes more resources towards mental health than a lot of cities.

I live near Dupont and the bike lanes are super comprehensive, but honestly they seem underused... I rarely see people biking through the very walkable areas.

genuine question: When a neighborhood is extremely walkable, are bike lanes everywhere necessary?

Imma go out on a limb and say that people driving like maniacs, with zero moving violation accountability, are a bigger threat than lack of pedestrian safety measures.