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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I chuckle when my friends in AU park brag on one hand about their proximity and urban like grid pattern streets and then talk out the other side of their mouths about all the people cutting through their neighborhood on those grid streets to get downtown. What did they think would happen? That’s why  cul-de-sacs cost more right? [/quote]

Through-traffic commuters are a menace.  They dangerously speed through residential neighborhoods like they were on a highway.[/quote]

Or a through street, which they are. Not my fault you live on peoples way to work and conveniently so.  Don’t worry all those no turns during rush hour will be  100% obeyed…. Or it will just keep a few cars out of the area making it more enticing and open for the cut though drivers to make up time.[/quote]

Through street or not, you need to observe traffic laws and a huge number of commuters like yourself (you probably included) aren't.  That alone justifies a crackdown.[/quote]

I’ll gladly pay a couple hundred dollars a year in photo tickets or citations for the sweet sweet satisfaction of blasting to work in an M5, hell parking costs way more and it is all just the price of doing business. It’s like the express lanes on 495, pay a little bit and go a bunch faster. Besides I can’t remember the last time I got pulled over by a DC cop. Even when I did years ago those lazy no-nothings would just say sorry sir and to slow down. Last time was on western in chevy chase after rolling through a couple of stop signs and all he wanted to do was tell me how many important people he had caught and let go with warnings.  I actually go a stop sign camera ticket once in AU park a few years ago but haven’t seen one of those since. But at the end of the day one has to drive though someone’s neighborhood to get to Georgetown hospital, why not pick the empty roads with the self righteous people? It sort of makes my day to turn on the sport exhaust and get people all huffy and puffy. [/quote]

Yup. This is why we can't just leave things up to behavior and have to actually make infrastructure for safety.[/quote]

If you make it harder to get to city center it is just going to send shockwaves into the neighborhoods on the way. Most of DC is neighborhoods so pick your poison and most of us will be long gone by the time any real change happens.  In the mean time zoom zoom [/quote]

Zoom zoom...  So it's DC's fault and DC neighborhoods have to pay the price because people like the PP can't be responsible enough to get their asses out of bed on time and rush themselves to work.

Also, it's ironic that you have such disdain for DC yet are dependent on it for your livelihood.  [/quote][/quote]

I don’t have a disdain DC and live >12 houses from the border on a Cul-de-sac because I thought about before I bought, I just like options when driving and love cars. You live on a through road, you should have thought about that. I have a disdain for (pull up the ladder, I’m on board) hypocrites. I didn’t buy an almost 600hp commuter to drive 25, I’m at least being consistent. [b]I also hate the bikers on MacArthur who ride in the road when a bike lane is directly to their right, which is contrary to the law. [/b]You get the bikers to obey the laws and I’ll start. [/quote]

This is not against the law. Source: https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/publication/attachments/DC-Bike-Law-Pocket-Guide-Oct2012.pdf

God I can't wait till self-driving cars are advanced enough that we regain the political will to take the steering wheel away from reckless drivers like you permanently. Drivers kill 40,000 people a year! The world is just going to be so much more pleasant when entitled assholes don't have the means to endanger and annoy others so blatantly. Honestly, I look forward to it even more than the additional free time or the extra-cheap taxis.[/quote]

PP says they planned where they wanted to live (yet still complains about a commute of just a few miles) yet failed on commute planning by buying a 600hp car for their daily driver.  Surely you KNEW DC has 25mph speed limits in its residential districts and busy commercial districts when you bought in your cul-de-sac?[/quote]

I did but I also knew about the lax enforcement and my ability to soak up the few photo tickets that Waze doesn’t save me from. It makes those few miles much more enjoyable, even more so when not stuck on main roads which are unnecessary as there are dozens of roads that go east and west. I like to mix it up butterworth, brandywine or albemarle are my jams, I highly recommend people check them out if looking to avoid Wisconsin.  DC is easy to get around in just about any time of day, it is in and out of DC that is crazy. [/quote]

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