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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A bunch of GS 12s getting lunch a few times a week wasn't propping up the economy. DC needs big law and lobbyists working in the office and spending money in the city [/quote]

Just wait until the bike lanes are built on Connecticut Avenue and the 1000s of Montgomery County big law/lobbying partners are forced to take Metro or work from home more. That’ll be GREAT for the downtown economy.  [/quote]

This comment brought to you by someone who doesn't realize the lawyers and lobbyists who work downtown these days are mostly in their 40s and 50s, Millenials and Gen X, and many would happily free themselves of a car commute and embrace alternate modes of transportation. Also, as high earners, many have traveled extensively outside the US and notice that a lot of the places they enjoy going have extensive rail networks and lots of people on bikes, but do not have nearly as many cars. As people who have been to college and maybe even grad school, and who are required to use basic skills of logic and deduction as part of their jobs, many of them have concluded that investing in transportation infrastructure that preferences multi-modal and non-car methods of transportation is ultimately better for culture, health, the environment, and overall quality of life.

But the PP thinks all lawyers and lobbyists are short-sighted boomers who just want to get to work in their mobile living rooms, then go home in their mobile living rooms, and then die. The times, they are a changing.[/quote]

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