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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes, not sure why you think that's a relevant point? My point is that by closing Beach Drive (completely during the pandemic, and prior to that on the weekends), they had the foresight to create an unequalled experience in the park that deprioritizes cars.  Not that cars don't use Rock Creek at all.  [/quote]

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