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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope they never reopen it. It’s national park land, not a commuter route for Maryland drivers[/quote]

White cyclists wealthy enough to live close to their jobs telling black drivers who live much farther away from their jobs that they can’t use their roads[/quote]

You might want to show up at Beach Drive one day and tell all the black people biking, running, and walking that they are being oppressed. [/quote]

Cyclists are almost 100 percent white: drivers here are disproportionately black.[/quote]

It’s worse than that. It’s 100 white guys from Ward 3 telling hundreds of thousands of black and brown people in PG and Montgomery counties who need to go to work to support their families that they can’t use their roads.[/quote]

The racializing troll is at it again . . .

It’s getting boring, though. You need to come up with nonsense that is a little less repetitive.[/quote]

And yet no one has a substantive response. It’s all just white people saying they don’t want to think about the structural racism issues here. [/quote]

No, it's mostly people asking for some evidence that (a) all bicyclists in D.C. (and specifically, on Beach Drive) are white and/or that (b) the people who want to drive in on Beach Drive are mostly black. Let's start there. [/quote]

When I am running or biking on Beach, i see plenty of people also running, walking, schlepping it on a bikeshare, or doing other activities on it that they could NEVER do if there was auto traffic.  The sportsmen cyclists actually could have and probably did just cycle on it before closure and just annoyed car drivers lol.  They do mostly go faster than the cars were supposed to be anyway.[/quote]

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