Thursday, September 27, 7:00pm—9pm
The Chastleton Ballroom
1701 16th St NW
The Dupont Circle and Logan Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANC) jointly announce a public meeting for residents, business owners and organizations to discuss bicycle safety issues in the community. With biking for transit expanding rapidly in our community, many issues, concerns, and questions have arisen. Some topics for discussion are:
- · The District’s plans to make DC more bike/pedestrian-friendly; any plans or ideas for the Dupont-Logan area and its residents.
- · The laws/rules about street/sidewalk biking; consequences for those who break them. Whether any of these laws/rules should be revised or updated by the City Council.
- · New bike lanes: Where/when are they coming and where else are they needed. Tips for dealing with the new 2-way bike lanes for bikers, drivers, and pedestrians. Also, bike parking.
After hearing strong concerns about road safety at a public listening session on in June, the Dupont and Logan Circle communities are working together to discuss these and any other issues that residents wish to bring up. At this meeting, District transportation and police officials will be in attendance, in addition to community leaders and bicycling experts. The Dupont Circle Citizens Association, the Logan Circle Citizens Association, and the Urban Neighborhood Alliance are partnering with the ANC's on this important community listening and education session.
This is an opportunity to have your voices heard on bicycle safety concerns whether you're a daily or occasional biker, a pedestrian, or a driver. The meeting will be a guided discussion to help inform and guide the city’s public safety agenda so that your bicycle safety concerns can be addressed productively and collaboratively — if not at the meeting, at least in the near future.
We hope to see you and hear from you and your neighbors at the meeting.
road safety is entirely due to the beahvior of cars (not drivers-- intent is irrelevant -- physical conditions solicit and afford behavior...good city planners, social scientist, economists, and parents know this...). "road safety" is doublespeak for "we will punish bicyclists."
traffic engineers are the lst persons to be designing the multi-use public spaces that should be the "streets"
why? why were african americans hated in this culture in the 1950s??...why were women marginalized? etc etc... why is it impolite to draw attention top jayson werth's 127 million 7-year salary?...
road safety is a smokescreen for CONTROL, by those who think some ELSE needs controlling...they will NOT question the problematic background that makes what appears in the foreground stand out as a "problem."
when the police conduct meetings-- ignore them.
Posted by: foryoureyeswashcycle | September 23, 2012 at 11:04 AM
WTF?
wrt the previous comment, I have always been interested in teh work of the moral development theorist Lawrence Kohlberg. Stage 4 (of 6) is focused on following the law (and not questioning it). Most police officers are hard core stage 4 types.
I can't imagine a lot of discussion will come out in terms of the relative positions of road users, the need to rebalance laws in favor of the most vulnerable users, Idaho Stops, contributory vs. comparative liability, the quality of police investigation of accidents involving pedestrians and/or bicyclists, etc.
Posted by: Richard Layman | September 23, 2012 at 05:00 PM
Richard, that's mike, he's best ignored.
As to cops being law and order types, that's true, but you should do a ride along with bicycle-mounted police. You will think all the stop signs are broken.
Posted by: washcycle | September 23, 2012 at 07:40 PM