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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Suburbanite here with an office on I Street and used to take Metro to work even though it was more expensive than monthly parking downtown (not including vehicle depreciation) and it absolutely sucked. I was informed that I will be returning to work in person on hybrid starting in July and I already made 2 months of parking reservations. I’m never getting back on the Metro. At this stage DC has two choices. [b]It can facilitate efficient transportation solutions [/b]or it can posture  with inefficient bike lanes which will cause my vehicle and others to idle in the streets contributing to increased air pollution. [/quote]

There is nothing more inefficient than a single-occupancy-vehicle commute to I Street.[/quote]
There is nothing more inefficient than have space road capacity idle while vehicles are clogging streets increasing NOx pollution and hurting your citizens public health. I guess posturing to GGW is more important though. Seems like a weird way to make public policy. [/quote]

When you drive by yourself to work,

-your car uses a lot of energy to transport you
-your car uses a lot of space to transport you
-your car uses a lot of space to sit unused for [however many hours] while you're at the office

That's inefficiency. DC shouldn't enable it or subsidize it.

If you're worried about DC public health and air quality, then you should use a different means of transportation in DC.[/quote]

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