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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't speak for any other routes, but for the last few years I've "commuted" crosstown during the evening rush via 295/695/Rock Creek Parkway and 295/695/66 to host trivia in various bars in NW and NOVA. During the pandemic I continued to utilize those routes for various reasons despite trivia obviously not being a thing.

[b]I can tell you that right now we're back to at least 70% of pre-pandemic traffic on those routes. We might get some lasting relief, but it'll be a minor improvement at best. [/b]

I'm wondering if this has to do with the demographics of the companies that choose to continue telework - perhaps the ones more likely to let their employees work from home are the newer, hipper, more tech-oriented companies that already attracted the kind of young, socially active, environmentally conscious employees who already eschewed cars in favor of Metro, bikes, and walking to work while the stodgy old companies that are forcing their employees back are by and large the ones where the car-obsessed suburban dwellers worked. [/quote]
This is why there is no way that they can continue to keep Beach Drive closed, keep the Jersey barriers block traffic lanes on several main arterials and not re-implement the reversible lanes.[/quote]

What do you mean, there's no way? Of course there's a way. All they have to do is not change what's there right now.

Anyway, Beach Drive is open, just not for people who want to drive cars on it.[/quote]
Sure. They could just keep things as is. [b]What you do you think will happen once traffic is 100% back to pre-pandemic levels if the current measures remain in place?[/b] Are there any other interests or considerations that the city government would want to take into account? [/quote]

I think that people will make different transportation choices. What do you think will happen?[/quote]

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