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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's this really pernicious and kind of ridiculous idea in the city government that, if they make driving unpleasant enough, then people will give up their cars and turn to bikes or buses or whatnot. Um, that's not going to happen. Ever. You might as well be trying to encourage people to take pogo sticks to work. People will just avoid the parts of the city where it's too hard to get around. Or vote out the politicians who are trying to make traffic worse. [/quote]
The response seems to be "just use public transit." Except that Metro is in a death spiral, and no one seems to know how to fix it.[/quote]

There seems to be a willful, collective ignorance right now regarding Metro's disastrous ridership and financial condition. The only way to fix it may very well be to force people ride metro... at least the rail part.[/quote]
Exactly. Did they not listen to WMATAs own testimony? They have literally thrown in the towel. This is not China. They cannot force people to ride an expensive, unsafe and unreliable train no matter how miserable they make driving in DC. Have they not been paying attention to the remote work revolution?

Federal employees returning to in person work will not save WMATA, if that’s the next hope.

My expectation is that they pressure to undo all of these ill thought through protected bike lanes will come from within. Commercial real estate and affluent reverse car commuters will be the ones to force reconsideration and removal. The only question is how long it takes and how much damage to DCs economy will occur before this happens.

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