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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me guess OP. You are a millennial who doesn’t have a car and you live in one of the gentrified neighborhood in north east that is convenient walking or biking distance to the Arboretum. Am I right?

Bonus points for admitting that you are a fairly recent arrival to the district of Columbia and this is your first home that you’ve purchased[/quote]

To add, just as you’re tired of cars in your new pandemic walking routine, people like me, who’ve been going there for years,
are so bummed that throngs of millennials have “discovered “ the once-quiet place. We’re dismayed that you clog it up consistently with off-leash rescue dogs and shouty loud preschoolers and babies climbing in the trees which is clearly inappropriate.

We have to coexist now and so do you[/quote]\

Guess what - the fact that you have been going there for years doesn't give you any more or less right to it.

Large urban parks are going car-free everywhere; so it only makes sense to consider it for the National Arboretum as well. I'm sorry, but no, you don't have the right to get in your car, drive 1/3 mile to see an azalea, then get back in your car and drive another 1/3 mile to see a dogwood.  That is giving a huge amount of priority to cars.  The parking lots obviously need to be consolidated and car traffic limited to access to the parking lots.  [/quote]

I have exactly that right. It’s the way it’s designed. I can drive circles all day if I want to. If you want trails with no cars around you’re looking in the wrong place. [/quote]

Well, thank's for demonstrating the problem.  The design is bad, hence this post.  [/quote]

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