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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so sick of all of these people saying their streets need to be treated differently because they are "cut through" - no, these are all public spaces and should be accessible by and for the public at all times. It really isn't fair to push traffic on to other streets because you don't like it on yours. Buy a house on a different street out in the country. We live in a city. Tough it out.[/quote]

There’s something called the FHA functional classification of streets, which DC follows.  Narrow residential streets are not the same as an arterial like Wisconsin Avenue and may not be appropriate for thru traffic.  The statement that “you live in a city” is absurd.  Bethesda and some other parts of Montgomery County are more urban that some DC neighborhoods, and MoCo has very effective traffic calming, including no thru traffic limitations.  Don’t be an idiot.[/quote]

Yes, downtown Silver Spring is more "urban" than Palisades.  That is irrelevent.  That's also not where any of the "traffic calming" takes place.  The desire to force all traffic onto "arterials" in order to segregate single family homes from the hoi polloi is bad from both a practical and philosophical perspective.  It is sefish and it is a waste of community resources.  Nobody is better or more deserving than anybody else.  City streets are public goods and it is a profound violation of the public trust and social contract to give special rights to a few.  The city was designed as a grid.  Every street plays a role.  Dont be a selfish hole.[/quote]

My kids’ safety IS more deserving than your desire to save a couple of minutes by speeding down a short cut on some narrow street.[/quote]

This has absolutely nothing to do with safety. [/quote]

As a longtime resident, yes, it does. I'll be blunt: Virginia commuters blast through all of these streets, barely paying attention, speeding angrily, just to try to save 2 minutes of three-way stopping at CBR or Arizona. While I hope the new speed camera on Arizona financially penalizes some of these drivers, I suspect it will only "encourage" more of them to race through quiet residential streets. And yes, neighbors' dogs have been hit and children almost struck.

I'm not talking about families dropping off children at Key. No one else who lives here is talking about that. Come over here and see how little these commuters value safety, and you might sing a different tune.    [/quote]

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