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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congratulations neighbors, you made the press:
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/566081/a-classic-ward-3-dispute-is-playing-out-in-palisades-as-neighbors-battle-over-sidewalks-and-street-closures/[/quote]
It’s a funny article because clearly this issue puts these young urbanists* in a bind. The war on cars is good after all but explicit benefits for rich people are bad. Is closure with no public access at all better than the status quo? Why does everyone hate the favored urbanist policy, “traffic calming”?

It’s pretty funny all around reading how the WCP and his activist ANC-rep buddy who seems to dislike his own neighbors are trying to square this circle. [/quote]

This is just silly. No one - except the residents of UT/CB - opposes actual traffic calming measures such as speed bumps, narrowing of the road through putting in sidewalks, and a one way designation. What people are frustrated by is that a handful of extremely rich people are opposing these standard responses to traffic safety issues and instead asking the city to give them a private street so that they can be free of the crazy driving the rest of us have to deal with. It’s not the proposal of traffic calming measures that have upset people; it’s DDOT’s strange eschewing of them in this case. This whole episode stinks to high heaven.[/quote]
LOL. No one is basically everyone except you and your fellow progressive urbanists*, who turn out to occupy a lot of space on social media but very little out of it. [/quote]

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