How can we make DC streets bicycle and pedestrian-only?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

In our neck of the woods people have at least two cars, more if they buy cars for their kids -- and a lot do.

Sweet but this is Washington D.C. There aren't many kids to begin with, and the number who are old enough to drive represent a tiny sliver of the population. The city says there's only 17,000 people between the ages of 15 and 17, for example.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

Or maybe you could stop spewing stupid bullshit that's mathematically impossible? Just a thought.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

Or maybe you could stop spewing stupid bullshit that's mathematically impossible? Just a thought.

PP, it is clearly not mathematically impossible if you think about it for more than 30 seconds. The number you're citing includes thousands and thousands of buses (1,500+), taxis (6,300+), police cars (1,700+), rental cars (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 3,000), motorcycles (3,500+), city-owned fleet vehicles (3,000+), apportioned commercial vehicles, work vans, trucks, etc (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 10,000), and schoolbuses (600). Conservatively, this gets us to a place where about 35% of households have more than one car. Eminently reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

Or maybe you could stop spewing stupid bullshit that's mathematically impossible? Just a thought.

I’m sorry to have to ask, but do you have an intellectual disability by chance? It’s trivial for most people who know to operate a computer to search for statistics on car ownership and use in DC. Doing this validates the aforementioned car ownership statistic in a matter of seconds. Much less time in fact than it takes you to throw around petty insults.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

Or maybe you could stop spewing stupid bullshit that's mathematically impossible? Just a thought.

PP, it is clearly not mathematically impossible if you think about it for more than 30 seconds. The number you're citing includes thousands and thousands of buses (1,500+), taxis (6,300+), police cars (1,700+), rental cars (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 3,000), motorcycles (3,500+), city-owned fleet vehicles (3,000+), apportioned commercial vehicles, work vans, trucks, etc (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 10,000), and schoolbuses (600). Conservatively, this gets us to a place where about 35% of households have more than one car. Eminently reasonable.

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Sorry but your numbers still don't work. There's not enough teenagers or government owned vehicles to make a difference.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

Why is 298,000 cars per 186,000 households hard to believe? That's 1.6 vehicles per household, on average, for households that have a car. Overall, there are 2.6 people per household in DC. So that seems entirely reasonable, especially since I keep reading on DCUM that it's unrealistic to expect adults to get around in DC without a car.

Overall in the US, in 2020, 8.5% of households had zero vehicles, 32.5% had one, 37.1% had two, and 22.0% had three or more.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

Why is 298,000 cars per 186,000 households hard to believe? That's 1.6 vehicles per household, on average, for households that have a car. Overall, there are 2.6 people per household in DC. So that seems entirely reasonable, especially since I keep reading on DCUM that it's unrealistic to expect adults to get around in DC without a car.

Overall in the US, in 2020, 8.5% of households had zero vehicles, 32.5% had one, 37.1% had two, and 22.0% had three or more.

Yeah I dunno why this poster finds this had to believe. Also, I’d assume a good number of cars “registered” to dc don’t exist. Dc thinks I still own a car that was totaled more than 5 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

Or maybe you could stop spewing stupid bullshit that's mathematically impossible? Just a thought.

PP, it is clearly not mathematically impossible if you think about it for more than 30 seconds. The number you're citing includes thousands and thousands of buses (1,500+), taxis (6,300+), police cars (1,700+), rental cars (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 3,000), motorcycles (3,500+), city-owned fleet vehicles (3,000+), apportioned commercial vehicles, work vans, trucks, etc (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 10,000), and schoolbuses (600). Conservatively, this gets us to a place where about 35% of households have more than one car. Eminently reasonable.

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Sorry but your numbers still don't work. There's not enough teenagers or government owned vehicles to make a difference.

I just showed you how it does work. Just say "whoops, I guess my assumptions were wrong" and go about your day next time.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

Or maybe you could stop spewing stupid bullshit that's mathematically impossible? Just a thought.

PP, it is clearly not mathematically impossible if you think about it for more than 30 seconds. The number you're citing includes thousands and thousands of buses (1,500+), taxis (6,300+), police cars (1,700+), rental cars (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 3,000), motorcycles (3,500+), city-owned fleet vehicles (3,000+), apportioned commercial vehicles, work vans, trucks, etc (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 10,000), and schoolbuses (600). Conservatively, this gets us to a place where about 35% of households have more than one car. Eminently reasonable.

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Sorry but your numbers still don't work. There's not enough teenagers or government owned vehicles to make a difference.

I just showed you how it does work. Just say "whoops, I guess my assumptions were wrong" and go about your day next time.

Your beef is with math, not me. You're basically saying you dont want to count 30,000 cars. Fine. Doesn't matter. It's still not enough to move the needle unless you think there's a lot of Washingtonians with Jay Leno-esque fleets of cars.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

In our neck of the woods people have at least two cars, more if they buy cars for their kids -- and a lot do.

Sweet but this is Washington D.C. There aren't many kids to begin with, and the number who are old enough to drive represent a tiny sliver of the population. The city says there's only 17,000 people between the ages of 15 and 17, for example.

A lot of the high school students at my kids school drive to school. You don’t seem well integrated into the daily life of DC residents, which is why its hard to take your inane policy proposals seriously.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

Why is 298,000 cars per 186,000 households hard to believe? That's 1.6 vehicles per household, on average, for households that have a car. Overall, there are 2.6 people per household in DC. So that seems entirely reasonable, especially since I keep reading on DCUM that it's unrealistic to expect adults to get around in DC without a car.

Overall in the US, in 2020, 8.5% of households had zero vehicles, 32.5% had one, 37.1% had two, and 22.0% had three or more.

Every family I know in DC owns 2 cars, even if one does not get much use. A long time ago when I had roommates, everyone had a car. So that was 3 cars registered to one household.

An average of one car per household seems quite reasonable, even if a good number of households are car free, which I presume is mostly lower income households. For households with cars, an average of 1.5 cars per household also seems reasonable. I’m not sure why any of this is controversial.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a great idea. Police cars, ambulances or fire trucks make DC less safe and need to be eliminated.

Is that what you drive as your personal-use vehicle?

There are like 600,000 registered vehicles in DC.

I’ll let you draw conclusions as to what that means for city living preferences by residents not named you.

Correction: DC has 310,000 registered vehicles and 288,000 households.

Many of the wealthier households have more than one vehicle. And many of those households don't actually use all of their vehicles often.

The average DC household has chosen to own 1 vehicle. Not by force but by choice. It’s hilarious to me that you think that you should be able to impose your preferred lifestyle on an entire city that has chosen to live differently.

A solid 40% of households in the city had no car as of 2021. So, no, my point above still stands. Many wealthier households have more than one car.

Basic math will tell you that you're full of shit.

If 40 percent of DC's 310,000 households did not own cars, that would mean the 298,000 cars registered with the city are owned by 186,000 households.

Do you really think the average car owner in Washington DC owns 1.6 cars?

If you assume (correctly) that a large percentage of car owners only have one car, then everyone else would have to have a *fleet* of cars in order to make the numbers work.

It's even worse than that, since so many people have cars that are not even registered with the city.

The 298k figure presumably includes commercial and other non-private vehicles. And stop being an a-hole.

Or maybe you could stop spewing stupid bullshit that's mathematically impossible? Just a thought.

PP, it is clearly not mathematically impossible if you think about it for more than 30 seconds. The number you're citing includes thousands and thousands of buses (1,500+), taxis (6,300+), police cars (1,700+), rental cars (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 3,000), motorcycles (3,500+), city-owned fleet vehicles (3,000+), apportioned commercial vehicles, work vans, trucks, etc (couldn't find data, conservative estimate of 10,000), and schoolbuses (600). Conservatively, this gets us to a place where about 35% of households have more than one car. Eminently reasonable.

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Sorry but your numbers still don't work. There's not enough teenagers or government owned vehicles to make a difference.

I just showed you how it does work. Just say "whoops, I guess my assumptions were wrong" and go about your day next time.

Your beef is with math, not me. You're basically saying you dont want to count 30,000 cars. Fine. Doesn't matter. It's still not enough to move the needle unless you think there's a lot of Washingtonians with Jay Leno-esque fleets of cars.

I don't have a beef with math, and I don't have a beef with you, much like I don't have a beef with a toddler who is incapable of tying their own shoelaces.

You may not like it, but those are the facts. Sorry that you're triggered by them. I hope that someday you are able to grow as a person, and cultivate the skill of considering alternative viewpoints without reflexively shutting them down and then getting angry when people have the gall to show you precisely how you're wrong.

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very easy way for further economic declines in DC.

The city is funded by commuters/employers. Not everyone wants to take public transit, nor lives near public transit, to get to their job.

Let's life in our Unicorn land with no crime, no cars, no gangs, and no drugs. Just happy people!

Sheesh

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Anonymous wrote:very easy way for further economic declines in DC.

The city is funded by commuters/employers. Not everyone wants to take public transit, nor lives near public transit, to get to their job.

Let's life in our Unicorn land with no crime, no cars, no gangs, and no drugs. Just happy people!

Sheesh

Let’s not ever try to implement changes that will in the long run makes life better for everyone because change is HARD and we might suffer some short-term negative consequences!