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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all the NIMBYs saying we should just keep cars out of the city and do WFH forever, you guys are living in an economic fantasy world. The population of DC DOUBLES during the day with the influx of workers (historically). Did you really think that your residential population can support all these restaurants, coffee shops, etc.? No freaking way. Your businesses will shutter without all the terrible "commuters." Your sales tax revenues will plummet. The commuters keep your city alive [/quote]

Yes, the people do. The cars don't.[/quote]

Thanks for demonstrating that you do, in fact, live in an alternate reality. Probably only maximum 20% of workers in DC could feasibly live near a metro station or bike in even if we tore up and redid all of the development in VA/MD. There simply is not enough housing or even enough space for housing (in the best case scenario if we tore down all the houses and built communist style high rises around all VA/MD metro stations). I know people who commute into DC from Springfield and Gaithersburg to jobs that aren't even within walking distance of a metro. So you want them to drive half an hour to a metro station WITH THEIR BIKE, pay to park, metro in with their freaking bike, oftentimes switch a metro line, then when they're done with that bike another 10 minutes to the office? Yeah... say goodbye to your economy[/quote]

So DC has to make car-commuting convenient for people who don't live in DC and find it more convenient to commute into DC by car? What's DC's incentive for that?

Also, "communist style high rises", really?[/quote]

DC doesn't HAVE to do anything. My point was only that if you don't, your economy will dramatically suffer. As another PP said, perhaps it will anyway if commuters aren't returning regardless of street availability. Communist style high rises refers to actual communist style high rises. If you haven't traveled in eastern europe, russia, and china then perhaps you don't know what this means. They are huge buildings that are almost mini-cities. My point was that even doing this would not give enough people access to walkable metro stations to allow DC to function without most people still commuting in via car.[/quote]

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