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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Open Streets caused massive traffic jams throughout Petworth, [b]inconveniencing hundreds of thousands of people.[/b] But, hey, 50 bicyclists got to ride their bikes down the middle of the street![/quote]

I doubt that![/quote]

NP.  Okay[b] so maybe not hundreds of thousand[/b]s but it certainly made trying to go north on 13th, 14th or 16th a nightmare today.  Can't speak for the other streets.  Maybe no parking on 16th streets when they do this?  Or come up with other traffic patterns to help? [/quote]

Easily hundreds of thousands. [b]There's probably 50,000 people who live in Petworth. There's probably 35,000 in Brightwood. [/b]Those are just the neighborhoods immediately affected. Now think of everyone, on a Saturday, trying to get anywhere between Silver Spring and downtown DC. And all the people trying to go EOTP to WOTP. Georgia avenue is a major artery and closing it shunts an enormous amount of traffic onto side streets that were never designed to accommodate so many cars. [/quote]

Not close to accurate...look at the census tracts if you want to avoid hyperbole. Face it, this was a successful event by any metric.[/quote]

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