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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you have it exactly wrong. The harder it is to commute in from suburbs by car, the more people will desire to live in the city or close to Metro lines. All of which is good for DC. Plus, there is a lot of demand for multi-modal transportation from District residents, and some of the noisiest people demanding this stuff are also among the city's wealthiest and more powerful. Lots of young GenX and Millenials who want big commutes from homes in Brookland, Capital Hill, and UNW, and are frustrated by limited protection. None of those people want to drive to work because traffic in the city already sucks, and why live in the city if you're going to drive everywhere? They want to be able to metro or bike, and don't care about people commuting in from Manassas in their SUVs.

Imagine -- a city designed for the people who actually live in it, who pay property and income taxes in it. I hope one day DC has enough transportation infrastructure throughout the city  to ban cars in large swaths of the city as they have in Paris. And I don't even own a bike! I just want a clean city with less traffic nuisance that isn't so dangerous for me and my kids to walk around.[/quote]

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