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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny we put all these bike lanes everywhere and hardly anyone even uses them. [/quote]

:lol:  :lol:  This is so true. I don’t understand why all the anti parking and anti car people don’t understand that not everyone wants to or can Über or carshare, not everyone wants to live in DC, some people enjoy living in the burbs and thus choices should include city parking. There is no need to get rid of parking when people are planning to use  Amtrak to commute to another city. No one can “commute” from places like Loudon County, VA/Waldorf, MD/ or Olney, MD via public transportation, because it doesn’t exist. Carpooling from these places to Union Station would cost over $50. Driving from these places to park at the nearest metro garage isn’t exactly always guaranteed. Metro is NOT RELIABLE. Last weekend I caught an Uber to Glenmont station with the intention of catching the red line train downtown. Unfortunately, the red line stations from Fort Totten to Glenmont were completely shut down. I was told to catch a shuttle from Glenmont to Fort Totten and then try to catch the train there. That kind of ride on the bus was projected to be well over 2 hours because of all the passenger stops. I decided the city wasn’t worth the weekend stress.

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lady I have news for you - the city is not here to cater to you and your car. [/quote]

Precisely.  But then I try to avoid DC as much as possible due to the extreme hassle it has become to get there.  On the upside, neighboring jurisdictions get my fun money instead.[/quote]

great. have fun. [/quote]

I always love this threats from suburbanites that they are going to stay home.

Most folks in my DC neighborhood would be thrilled if that happened.

But the city doesn't care - sales taxes are a small percentage of the DC budget - I think in 2019 it was like 2% of the total income raised by DC and I can't find it now but I believe like one-tenth of that money comes from non DC residents.  The 10% restaurant tax collected from non DC residents is insignificant and certainly doesn't even cover a decent part of what it costs DC every year to maintain its roads, roads that overwhelming are used and damaged by suburbanites.[/quote]

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