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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s just no other way to reduce traffic and congestion other then making driving more inconvenient then other forms of transportation. Congestion is one form of inconvenience, but no matter how many roads and parking you build there always will be congestion, because people just prefer to drive. You build roads and they will come. But you build bike lanes, add more busses and people who have that option will chose to leave their cars home if it means cutting their commute time and cost. [/quote]

There's nothing inevitable here. DC is choosing to make traffic much worse by putting in bike lanes. Maybe some tiny fraction of drivers will switch to bikes, but the vast majority of people will not even consider biking. It's just not practical for most people for a whole litany of reasons. If it's too hard to drive downtown, people will just go elsewhere.

If DC actually cared about these issues, it would stop neglecting the metro system. That's obviously the single best thing the city could do in terms of moving people around efficiently and with the least amount of damage to the environment. And we know people will ride the subway if it doesnt suck. But the city has shortchanged metro for years, people have left in droves and there's no sign that's going to change anytime soon.

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you aren’t *supposed* to be driving 30+ mph downtown. if bikelanes make traffic impossibly unbearable for you, you were driving too fast. [/quote]

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