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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Between the bus bump outs and the bikes lanes, Columbia Rd in AM has been destroyed for cars.  It is absolutely awful, but I suppose that was their intention.  It seems less safe for bikes now.[/quote]

Seems sad what DDOT did there. All it does is permanently reduce the number of people who will go there. [/quote]

DDOT: Helping Washingtonians rediscover Virginia and Maryland. [/quote]

The economy is absolutely booming, and pretty much every neighborhood in DC is a pale shadow of what it was 10 years ago. So many empty storefronts, so few people on the streets. It's sad.  The city used to seem so much more vibrant.  [/quote]
Congratulations on both dating yourself and saying something totally dumb and untrue. [/quote]

Someone's letting their recent transplant status show[/quote]
Exactly the opposite. Several neighborhoods are a lot worse than 10-20 years ago. You just would not know because you haven’t been here long enough.

Cleveland Park on both Connecticut and Wisconsin are a shadow of what they once were. Friendship Heights used to be the Rodeo Drive of the city. Just to name a couple neighborhoods.

But you wouldn’t know because you were in middle school in some midwestern suburb then. [/quote]

You know what neighborhood is only increasing in vibrancy? Eastern Market/Capitol Hill/Union Market. Guess where in the city also has the best bike infrastructure and which neighborhood has refused. [/quote]

It's flat there. It's closer to where people work. Younger people live there and many, many, many have or will move away from those places when they have kids. Those places have very little in common with the places where residents do not want or need bike lanes.[/quote]

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