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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bike lanes on Arizona Avenue seem purely punitive on Virginia drivers.  My fellow DC neighbors hate them because they’ve pushed traffic into the neighborhoods.   The Connecticut Ave residents were smart to fight that proposal.  [/quote]

Punitive for Virginia drivers?

Arizona Ave is a residential street. The elected neighborhood commission voted to support the bike lanes unanimously.

DC transportation policy should prioritize the safety of local residents, not the convenience of suburban commuters.[/quote]

Around 40% of DCs total property tax revenue is from office buildings.  Commuters account for more than 10% of all sales tax revenue. Good luck funding the local government without considering the needs of office workers and commuters. The office worker commuters contribute significantly to the DC tax revenue base and they use hardly any local government resources. [/quote]

Pandering to suburban commuters is about the dumbest thing that any city government can do.

Some of the worst times in DC’s history came with the flight to the suburbs in the 70s and 80s.

The city’s resurgence in the 00s and 10s came about as the result of attracting people back to central areas of the city like NoMA, Navy Yard, and so on.

Nobody - in the city or the suburbs - wants to live on streets that they cannot walk or bike along safely. So, yes, a key element in growing the city’s population - and its financial base - is traffic calming and all those things that suburban commuters find so pesky.[/quote]

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