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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me guess OP. You are a millennial who doesn’t have a car and you live in one of the gentrified neighborhood in north east that is convenient walking or biking distance to the Arboretum. Am I right?

Bonus points for admitting that you are a fairly recent arrival to the district of Columbia and this is your first home that you’ve purchased[/quote]

To add, just as you’re tired of cars in your new pandemic walking routine, people like me, who’ve been going there for years,
are so bummed that throngs of millennials have “discovered “ the once-quiet place. We’re dismayed that you clog it up consistently with off-leash rescue dogs and shouty loud preschoolers and babies climbing in the trees which is clearly inappropriate.

We have to coexist now and so do you[/quote]\

Guess what - the fact that you have been going there for years doesn't give you any more or less right to it.

Large urban parks are going car-free everywhere; so it only makes sense to consider it for the National Arboretum as well. [b]I'm sorry, but no, you don't have the right to get in your car, drive 1/3 mile to see an azalea, then get back in your car and drive another 1/3 mile to see a dogwood.[/b]  That is giving a huge amount of priority to cars.  The parking lots obviously need to be consolidated and car traffic limited to access to the parking lots.  [/quote]
Actually we do. It’s designed that way. So you can piss and moan all you want, but until the design is changed, people have the right to drive on the roads that connect the different areas. [/quote]

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