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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If rock creek closed for bikes then should reinstate Connecticut Ave w four lanes down in morning and then in afternoon. Otherwise people will use neighborhood streets making it less safe for families. You can’t cut off everything for bikers (tiny number of them) and make it worse for the overwhelming number of people who need to go downtown. It is just ridiculous [/quote]

By most estimates, 40-59% fewer people are commuting to offices downtown. Your family is fine. Connecticut Avenue isn’t cut off. Stop with the Ward 3 white people NIMBY pearl clutching drama. [/quote]

I’d sure like to have a string of pearls long enough to stretch across Porter St and 34th St to address the diversion of all the vehicles resulting from the narrowing of Connecticut Avenue!  But then the WABA and their Smart Growth pals would shriek that DC’s streets should be a grid, that traffic should flow naturally across the grid, that NIMBYs want to exclude people, etc.  It’s like when the same crowd opposes off-street parking requirements for new developments.  They repeatedly claim no parking is needed because everyone will take Metro, use bikes or hop on those scooters.  But then propose that new buildings without any parking not be eligible for RPP so as not to burden crowded streets and they loudly complain that’s so unfair, discriminatory, etc.

They’re all hot air and hypocrisy.[/quote]

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