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[quote=Anonymous]You go girl!

“am sympathetic to the idea of a quiet street becoming a thoroughfare. It is frustrating to purchase a house you believe will be quiet, and then it's not. (I type as a plane flies overhead.) But unless you live in a gated community, streets are not meant for their residents alone.
For five years, my children went to Key School, and University Terr was a critical part of my commute to work after dropping them off.
When they left Key, we started carpooling with another Palisades family to take our kids to school across town. Our route: up Chain Bridge Road from MacArthur to Nebraska. The travel was in reverse in the afternoons, in both cases.
I pay my DC taxes, and I am entitled to (safely) drive on any city street - not just those deemed commuter corridors, or that on which I live, or that whose residents deem me acceptable.
I am a huge proponent of traffic calming measures (speed bumps were installed on my street during COVID and I could not have been more thrilled.) I am also happy to see rigorous enforcement of speed limits and other safety measures. If the free flow of traffic is an issue, I am OK with signs like "no left turns from 7-9 AM."
But if I am understanding my Univ. Terr neighbor correctly, the free flow of traffic is the problem, not the solution. To block a street for most of us, even for the safety of a few of us, is incongruous with the idea of living in a city.
(I find it ironic that the same poster who is complaining about cars is also documenting woes with scooters and bicycles on the streets. Did I miss the memo on when jetpacks were being distributed?)”[/quote]

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