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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure where this uninformed idea that CCDC isn't Metro-accessible is coming from. Yes, the areas surrounding Lafayette are extremely car-dependent. But we live in CCDC and are a 15-minute walk from two different Metro stops (Tenley and Friendship Heights) and a 20-minute walk from Van Ness, and that's on the high end. The bus makes those trips even shorter, and there are parts of CCDC that are way more Metro accessible than that.  [/quote]

It's coming from the map showing that [b]most of CCDC is not metro accessible[/b]. I posted earlier and was very specific about the FH adjacent part of CCDC - it's pretty distinct from Barnaby Woods etc.[/quote]

This is just patently untrue. Parts of it are (Barnaby Woods, Pinehurst, etc). Much of it is within reasonable distance of a Metro station. I live in CCDC and have a 10-minute walk to the Metro.[/quote]

Not sure why you're digging your heels in on this, but pretty much any house east of Connecticut Ave in CC is not Metro accessible - not enough to use for daily errands, commuting, etc. And even some of those spots are pushing it - like Politics and Prose is a solid 1 mile walk to the FH Metro, which is fine for a commute but I'm not going to walk with my toddler to go to a museum on the weekends. I have a few friends near the Child's Play strip and they use their cars for everything - they were optimistic about public transit use when they moved there, but gave up pretty quickly. The neighborhood by the CC Rec Center is nice and denser, but that's only a few blocks and not many houses come on the market there.  We eliminated CC from our search pretty quickly as we were not looking for a "suburb in the city" vibe with car-dependence.[/quote]

Politics & Prose isn't CC DC anymore.  More Forest Hills (BTW, Van Ness metro would be closer).

The problem for a family of 4 is that it is cheaper to drive, especially if you are parking on the street on a Sunday when it is free.

However, my teen kids use it all the time, and when us adults are traveling on our own downtown we use it.  We live in the area West of CT Avenue, so it is about 4/10 of a mile walk?
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