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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if the goal was a safe and thriving neighborhood?  If you want a dedicated tunnel to downtown then take Metro.[/quote]

If the goal is a safe and thriving neighborhood then the impact of any plan on accidents and traffic volume within the neighborhood is vitally important.

If your goal is to ban cars that's simply not happening.[/quote]

A safe and vibrant neighborhood has bike lanes.[/quote]

Pretty sure there are many, many safe and vibrant neighborhoods that don’t have bike lanes.[/quote]

But how many neighborhoods have bike lanes that aren't safe and vibrant?[/quote]

Lots. You especially see this in other cities that haven’t been overrun with gentrification.[/quote]

If there's one thing we can take off the table absolutely when it comes to this particular bike lane debate, it's gentrification. You can't gentrify out the landed gentry.[/quote]

Bike lanes are not about gentrification but they are about density, vibrancy and smart growth.  Connecticut Ave has had the reputation of being rather boring and, well, old.  Bike lanes add a certain hipness factor to attract younger buyers and renters.  This is the group that developers who want to build dense housing need to attract.[/quote]

That's pretty stupid then.  The desirability, clearly measured in housing prices, is directly related to wearing mom jeans.  Parents don't want hip.  That's what we grew out of and why we moved there.  Stop trying to be something we're not instead embrace who we are because there's a lot of good things about that, not least of which is our taste in music because modern music really sucks.[/quote]

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