ive lived here for a decade and happily never felt the need to own a car. hell, you can take the train to harper's ferry.

OP knows that, and is actively doing that.

in any american city if you want to kill someone and get away with it, or only get slapped on the wrist, just do it with a car.

they didn't say that being white made them a gentrifier, they said that they were white AND a gentrifier . basic grammar. Presumptuous still, but very likely correct. Describes me, that's for sure.

if you only hang out with white college educated 20 somethings who work in politics (or politics adjacent) then all the stereotypes about DC transience are generally true

the purpose of the plastic stick at intersections, often bumping out the corners of the blocks that make up the intersection, is to force cars to pull up further into the box before they turn. This stops them from slamming through bikes and pedestrians, gives everyone more time to make eye contact, and generally forces people to slow down and not slam it around the corner. what a fucking joke from the post, it's really going to the dogs.

>We’re way more PHYSICALLY protected if a collision happens.

is not the same as

"we cause terrible injuries in collisions because we are the bigger, heavier, faster party"

but it is a very car-centric view on the subject, which in of itself is interesting. and yes, your reading comprehension is poor, regardless of my spelling

no, it's not. reading comprehension is low here. you're focused on the defense provided to the driver. that's not the issue. it's that the car is an offensive weapon. if you cant grok the different that's on you.

why on earth would you assume no solutions are being proposed? there are lots of solutions being proposed. You just dont know them because you're a johnny come lately to an issue you are not familiar with.

my small quibble with this is that it's not that cars are more "PHYSICALLY protected" it's that cars cause insane damage when they strike things due to their size/weight/speed. It's not about the protection that the driver has, it's about the fact that the things/people that drivers hit suffer terrible injuries. The trend seems to be making cars bigger, higher up, and with poorer visibility, aka more dangerous to bikes/pedestrians/children.

have you considered further whining about what people say online, while at the same time society totally caters to you/car owners at the expense of everyone else? Like this is such a made up problem. in reality, DC is an insanely car centric city in a way that makes no sense considering its density and street layout, but we privilege car ownership at every intersection, pun intended. No one is taking your car away, or your streets away, or your parking away, even though they should, and doing so would create a better and safer city for everyone, absolutely including the differently abled. Such an absolute victim mentality from you, totally disconnected from real life/our policy reality.