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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so sick of all of these people saying their streets need to be treated differently because they are "cut through" - no, these are all public spaces and should be accessible by and for the public at all times. It really isn't fair to push traffic on to other streets because you don't like it on yours. Buy a house on a different street out in the country. We live in a city. Tough it out.[/quote]

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I live on a major road out of Rock Creek Park - most of the time its pretty quiet but it can be busy during rush hours.  It's fine.  I also hate speed bumps with a passion or roads that are one way without a corresponding one way in the other direction.  Let's not turn into Chevy Chase Maryland where all the traffic is forced onto major roads which become insanely busy.  Traffic works best in a grid-like, open design.  If you want rules like (and no sidewalks!) move out of DC.[/quote]

I agree. They are ruining DC with these traffic calming. Putting up permanent cement middle barriers 
Turning streets one way. Adding bike lanes that bikers won’t use because they want to go the most efficient  route for them even if it’s sidewalks going down one way the wrong way.

This is not traffic calming. This is traffic road rage. [b]Don’t  we want these cars to get out of the city as fast as possible?[/b] And get DC residents home?
They block intersections, blow red lights, spreed through alleys, it’s a mess. NE DC changes to roads is creating tons of back ups and now folks are looking for shorts cuts and speeding down the quieter blocks. The ANC A/B are making a mess.[/quote]

I live in DC and no, I do not want cars to get out of the city as fast as possible, putting pedestrians, kids, and other residents at risk.  If you want to live in MD or VA and drive through DC that is fine but the speed limit is 20 mph on all non arterial roads so please leave earlier and drive the speed limit, yield to pedestrians, and make complete stops at stop signs.  If everyone did this 100% of theme there would be no need for traffic calming.  So if you hate traffic calming then please rail against the speeders and stop-sign runners and not the residents of the streets.  Try taking the bus or the metro, you can sit back and listed to a podcast and not have to drive.

After some digging it sounds like this wasn't even requested by the all the residents of the street anyway.  I live on a street with speed bumps that were put in before I moved in.  I chatted with a neighbor about it and he said people used to go 30-40 mph routinely (past a school!) because the street worked as a cut through when people hit ill-times lights.  People still drive through and I don't care about that but am glad that people before me advocated to get people to sloe down and actually have to drive the speed limit (they still run stop signs though). [/quote]

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