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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd like to see people pledging to get rid of their cars. [/quote]

So how to propose we get around?    Not counting metro.  I 'm talking where you there is no nearby metro/bus etc.  Have you given up your car?[/quote]

I don't have a car. I understand we won't get rid of cars, but people inside the beltway can get around pretty well without owning one. Walk, bus, subway, e-bike, scooter, zipcar.[/quote]

Zipcar is a car. It's you admitting you can't do everything you need to do within the beltway.

I would have had to take 3 buses to go 3 miles to my kid's charter school. That made me learn to drive when I had been a pedestrian for all of my adult life. We stuck it out without cars in this city for a year. It was brutal. We couldn't do kid activities. A simple bus or metro usually took at least an hour each way. A crosstown bus to the bookstore was more than that in traffic.

The DMV is designed for cars. You can pretend that isn't true, but I dare you to take your kid to music lessons in Rockville from downtown silver spring without one. I dare you to go to a pediatrician on Connecticut Ave. I dare you to drag a screaming, vomiting toddler across town on the J bus in rush hour. I've done it all, so you should too.

I will never do it again. A cheap electric car is the best solution. [/quote]

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