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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just had a lovely walk around the Arboretum this weekend, but it was really significantly worsened by car traffic. Not a lot, but enough that the noise and interruption on the path was meaningful. For the life of me, why do they let cars in?  What's the point of that? Cars should be allowed in to park, then everyone should walk/bike.  Maybe a day a month where the disabled and elderly can be allowed to drive.  [/quote]

YES! Add lots of bike share stations, and incentivize a bike store to set up shop near the front gate.
At the very least, a day a month car-free.[b] The Arboretum is not relaxing at all for my family, because little kids and big cars are not very visible to each other, and neither of them are good at remembering to watch out for each other's presence when not in large numbers.[/b][/quote]

Okay, so don't come? The Arboretum IS relaxing to my family, which includes two little kids. We went a lot already, but it's been a godsend during the pandemic. In fact, the accessibility to all of it by car makes it really nice for us as parents of small kids. We aren't limited to how far a 2 year old can make it on foot, or how far we want to shove a stroller or haul a picnic for four people. We can drive to a nice, more isolated area of the park, park our car off to the side of the road and walk into a practically empty clearing well off the road where we can then let the kids loose to run around while we enjoy our lunch that we only had to carry 20 yards instead of a mile on foot. It's lovely![/quote]

So you want to be able to drive all over the core of the arboretum to get to more isolated spots, thereby making the more popular spots less enjoyable for others.  Do I have that right?

that's no way to manage a scare resource (green space in a city).

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Do you have that right? Well, not [i]quite[/i]. I [i]do[/i] want to be able to drive on the existing roads (there for this exact purpose) to get wherever I want to go there, as is very much allowed. I've never heard anyone complain that it is making the more popular spots "less enjoyable" except from you, OP. I also like to go to the "popular spots" as well, and I don't find those to be at all disrupted by vehicle traffic. The Capitol Columns are up on top of a hill/surrounded by a huge open field, the bonsai collection is enclosed in a walled garden, the Asian Collection is in it's own valley completely removed from the road... is it just the Azalea Collection that stresses you out so much? [/quote]

I get the impression that OP just walked along the road. That's fine, I've done the loop for exercise too, but it is not the same as actually walking into the collections. The idea that someone is going to park at the NY Ave lot and push a wheelchair up the hill to see the dogwoods is kind of crazy. [/quote]

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