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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]NIMBYs need to be utterly destroyed, with prejudice.

We cannot allow public transport and improvements to public infrastructure to be blocked by moronic aholes with SFHs who already got theirs and don't want anyone else to have a better life.

F them.[/quote]

I do not subscribe to 100% NIMBY'ism. But they have their place.

Didn't the NIMBY's stop several highway from being bulldozed through DC several years ago? I was younger and not as into local politics then but I remember reading about it in the post.

Here is what the Post claimed was 'blocked' by the NIMBY's:
-Interstate 66 from the District border to the junction of the Whitehurst Freeway and the unbuilt tunnel under K Street NW
-The underground freeway under K Street NW from its junction with the Whitehurst Freeway east to its junction with Interstate 395
-Interstate 66 from the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge along Ohio Drive SW to the Southwest Freeway near the 14th Street Bridge
-Interstate 266, an upgrade of Spout Run Parkway which would cross the Potomac River at a proposed Three Sisters Bridge, and down an expanded Canal Road NW to join the Whitehurst Freeway
-An interchange at the junction of the 11th Street Bridges and I-295/Anacostia Freeway to permit southbound and northbound traffic to directly access the interstate
-An extension of I-695 (the so-called "Barney Circle Freeway") from its current terminus through Anacostia Park, to cross Burnham Barrier and connect with the Anacostia Freeway
-An upgrade of New York Avenue from the proposed junction with I-395 to the junction of New York Avenue/U.S. Route 50 with I-295, known as the New York Industrial Freeway

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Why would these project have been bad?  Seems like at least some of them would have significantly alleviated traffic.[/quote]

[b]Today, Washington has fewer miles of freeways within its borders than any other major city on the East Coast. More than 200,000 housing units were saved from destruction. So were more than 100 square miles of parkland around the metropolitan area. The city was spared from freeways bored under the Mall, freeways punched through stable middle-class black neighborhoods, freeways tunneled under K Street, freeways that would have obliterated the Georgetown waterfront and the Maryland bank of the Potomac.[/b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/2000/11/26/end-of-the-roads/d0439352-e564-4920-b235-4e77497102b0/

I had no idea that there were people that are still willing to argue that the missed opportunity to pave DC was a bad thing. Pretty telling about where they really fall on the Density Bros fight. With the money.[/quote]

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