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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big defeat for the anti-car folks. [/quote]

Heh[/quote]
I’m going to guess this was a typical DC outcome: someone important complained.

Not to say I don’t disagree with it. But if it wasn’t for that, those things would still be up partly just out of entropy but also because they originated from other people complaining. [/quote]

The public hated it. [/quote]

Over 300 residents signed a petition to designate just one street in Ward 3 as a Slow Strret.  The program is very popular amd should be expanded.[/quote]
Do all of those 300 people actually live on the street in question?[/quote]

That would be a very long street. My guess is none of the people who actually lived on the street signed the petition. [/quote]

And you would be incorrect.  Residents believe in traffic calming and want a safe street.  Let the fast cut-through traffic keep to the major arterials that were engineered to carry it.[/quote]

Except that's not how it works. Slow Streets just push a lot more traffic onto neighboring streets, regardless of whether they were built for that. There's no free lunch here. The people who benefit from Slow Streets do it by making life worse for everyone else. [/quote]

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