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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you're fine with your 30 minute commute turning into a 40 minute commute, and then an hour commute and then an hour and a half commute and so on?  Because, cars ARE NOT sustainable in any way commensurate with population growth.  That's just a fact.  So there you are, you'll be wasting away more and more of your day and more and more of your life sitting stuck in traffic with nothing to do but look at some other idiot's tail lights.[/quote]

It takes 15-30 min to drive 10 miles during rush hours.  It will take 45-70 minutes to ride a bike for the same distance.  How many people can afford the extra time every day?  When you spend time with your kids in a car, conversations happen.  If you spend extra hour to ride bike to work every day, you will spend less time with your family.[/quote]

15-30 minutes to drive 10 miles during rush hour? It would take more than 30 minutes for me to drive to my office during rush hour, and I live 6 miles from it. Maybe it takes 15-30 minutes to go 10 miles on the Beltway, but in the District, it’s already too congested for driving to make sense. Metro or biking are as fast for me, or faster, than driving, and on Metro I can deal with work email or read, while biking at least gets me some exercise. If your commute is primarily on busy roads near downtown, driving is just asking for aggravation. [/quote]

That's not true at all. I live in Upper NW and easily drive to my office in Penn Quarter right by the metro is less time than it would take to walk 10 to the metro and take the red line in. 20 mins driving vs 30-35 mins walk/metro. Traffic is minimal on city streets around 7:45 but the metro is packed and every week there's some incident.

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I go in later than 7:45. I haven’t driven to my office since before the pandemic, but when I did it then, it routinely took me longer than 30 minutes, and almost twice as long if it was raining. I far, far prefer metro. [/quote]

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