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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These crowds of people blocking the streets shows that nobody likes it is a real weird take.

My kids loved biking Georgia Ave (before it got too crowded) and we visited businesses (book store, restaurant) that we otherwise wouldn't have.[/quote]

If you want to go to a new book store or restaurant, you could just go do it — like, today. There’s no need to close major roads on a Saturday, when half the city is trying to move around, in order for you to leave your neighborhood. [/quote]

The major roads are closed today, though. By cars and their drivers. The nice thing about open streets is that the roads are open.[/quote]

There are more cars in this city than households. Sorry but that’s how people choose to get around. We can’t dedicate all of our public resources to you and the 12 other white guys who are super into bicycles. [/quote]

The whole idea of Open Streets is to imagine a new way of using streets so they aren’t solely devoted to cars. To encourage other ways of getting around so we don’t have more cars than households.[/quote]

You mean like how streets used to be part of the public space before Firestone, gm, and Ford ran wild with propaganda in the 1930's and 1940s?  [/quote]

How dare you remind people that streets existed before there were cars![/quote]

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