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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a park. Stop moaning about the cars. If you want a park head out to SNP.[/quote]

If you want a park, head out to Rock Creek Park, which has a major commuting highway through it, oh wait...

Or: if you want to say it's not a park, it's a research facility, then there really shouldn't be any visitors at all.[/quote]

Rock Creek park is a great example actually - Beach Drive is closed to traffic. [/quote]

The major commuting highway through Rock Creek Park is the Rock Creek Parkway.[/quote]

Ok, the point is that they prioritized pedestrian/bike usage on a big chunk of it, in recognition that public space should not be car-centric.  They could have easily said, "[b]pedestrians and bikers can stay on the trails and bike paths." But they didn't [/b]- they had a great vision of opening up the park to its highest and best use (as a park, away from cars, but still accessible by car.)[/quote]

Are you thinking of a different Rock Creek Park than I am? Because there are definitely roads running through it that you will get run over on if you try to walk on them.[/quote]

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