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[quote=Anonymous]21 pages in and I honestly don't understand this thread. All this kvetching about bike lanes, but outside of the peak of rush hour (and in particular at the times when OP threatens to stop spending their money), driving in DC isn't even that congested! The issue for drivers is and has always been parking, ease of driving barely matters in comparison.

I don't think this thread was ever about substantive arguments. It's just easier to be all "who's side are you on" about driving when you have an identifiable enemy in the form of the bike lane and/or the speeding driver. No one here is proposing how they will make parking more convenient because that's hard, and they don't want to actually do the work, they just want to complain.

OP, if the free market isn't providing parking that is convenient and cheap enough for you, what do you propose we do about it? Government-owned garages? Eminent domain to tear down empty office buildings are convert them to parking? The only big parking policies I'm aware of are parking minimums for new apartment buildings, but it's not city apartment dwellers who seem to need these additional parking spaces, it's you. So, what's your strategy? We're all ears.[/quote]

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