Yeesh, should these men just be put on the street? The incredible cruelty we show to the most downtrodden is hard to hear sometimes.

Edit: directed at the person calling men's shelters just "sex offenders". Also even if there are sex offenders there, they shouldn't be left to wither in the streets.

Not disagreeing there. But a lot of the handwring about the violence is from people who do not fit the profile of likely to be killed by a bullet.

If you're going to be killed violently, it's going to be with a bumper not a bullet.

Any place in particular within the center?

I prefer privacy for private matters. I don't think that's unusual.

Apart from some puns, those bathrooms look pretty pedestrian. Plus gaps around the doors, no go for me

I don't even think about the Madison when I think LOC to be honest.

Library of Congress is literally all marble. It's the most luxurious shit you'll ever take. You feel like a king.

Plus pretty empty.

The car example is especially apt. They get the concept of filtering there (Rich people buy new car, and sell their old. The fancy car from 2011 is the cheap used car of today), but you mention the same concept for housing and you're accused of "trickle down economics".

Luxury literally just means new.

Also the thing that limits height is rarely the height act itself but NIMBYs that fight everything.

Plus if we build 20 new units, and 25 people want to move in, prices will go up still (but if we built 0 units, it would be worse.)

Supply deniers are just bizarre.

Timberline has the longest green route in the east coast I believe.

The cameras are all reviewed by a real person. You also admitted you didn't stop so....

In this city we've all been nearly hit, injured, maimed, and/or killed by drivers that refuse to follow the basic laws. You'll find little sympathy for stop light cameras here. You might get some pity points from Nextdoor though.

I want homes in NW to pay a land value tax. They get away with lower taxes because their land is underdeveloped and it's bs.

But I guess asking people to pay their fair share for the resources that they consume isn't a winning platform eh?

Also pushing all the NIMBYS into the Pit on 1600 M St SE.

Height act and SFH zoning didn't block MacMillan for years, or the Adams Morgan SunTrust plaza, stupid NIMBY boomers did.

Making the bike lane protected would be a huge traffic calming measure.

This almost looked intentional, like attempted murder. The car is stopped at the red, as soon as the man on the scooter is in front of him (in the crosswalk, with the green) the car guns it (running the red) and never even stops for a second.

Edit: and to the surprise of no one, temporary plates.

Um the car ran a red light, hit a scooter (with presumably the green light) and then never stopped.

To be honest, it almost looked intentional like they knew the scooter guy and wanted to kill him. Why else would you choose the exact moment someone was in front of you to run a red?

Yep. And things like being in your phone, driving fast, rolling stop signs, and doing dangerous maneuvers is popularized and normalized by car commercials and everyday behavior.

Bad drivers (driving culture in the US is really bad) and some horrible horrible street designs from the 60s the DDOT is very very very slowly getting around to fixing.

You mean anti-car dependency and anti-car dominance.

Genuinely confused as to what route 267 was

I think the X2 is has the highest fare evasion period and that's only 50%.

Also not for nothing, DC public school students get free metro rides, so a lot of "fare evaders" were riding free anyways.

Also of note, free fares for busses greatly speeds up the bus (no waiting for people fussing with dollars). Plus, I remember the Kansas City DOT director commenting that something like 75% of incidents on busses where the police are called related to fares. So you speed up the busses, avoid conflicts, drivers are safer, police can focus on more important issues

Oh and most fare boxes only cover something like 10-30% of costs anyways, so you're not sacrificing a lot for large improvements. And it helps the poorest people access the city.

Lastly, our highways are heavily subsidized and free to use, why not the bus?

It's not the delivery drivers, is the miles of subsidized street parking that's the problem