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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alas, people have to get to work again, and not everyone can ride a bike or walk to work.[/quote]

Maybe we should allow continued teleworking for those whose jobs are suitable - I'm certainly not excited to drive into DC to do the exact same work I'm doing at home now. Win-wim! [/quote]
The city is soooo much more livable without the commuters’ traffic and annoyance.  Keeping my fingers crossed the stay tw![/quote]

But you also need a tax base to have a livable city.  And you know who doesn’t ride a bike to work? People who make a lot of money.  It takes A LOT of non profit workers and GS-9s on bikes to make up for the law firm/lobbyists/financial services folks who support the rest of you. You screw up their commute and this city won’t be so livable.  Enjoy your bikes though.  And yes, I know you know one high paid lobbyist who rides a bike.  [/quote]

We have to design the city around the perceived desires of the 1%? Nah.[/quote]

It’s not the desires of the 1%.  It’s the desire of the City to spend money.  The City can’t stay afloat by catering to bike riders that eat at food trucks for lunch in the park.  But you do you.  [/quote]

Yeah, it is. You're saying that if the 1% don't get their way (or what you think their way is), they will take their ball and go somewhere else, and then the city will be doomed with just the tax revenue from the 99%.[/quote]

I will help you.  The 1% pay 40% of the taxes and the top 10% pay 70% of the taxes.  I’m saying the vast majority of the top 10% want to drive to work in their air conditioned car.  They’ve worked hard and have earned this luxury.  You may know a few HHI people who like to ride their bikes or crowd into a smelly METRO car, but they are the exception.  If you make the commutes hellish for those 10%, those folks ain’t coming to work downtown. [b]Restaurants will fail, commercial real estate will fail, small businesses of all types will fail. [/b][/quote]

Firs ot all, the more people who ride bikes and take metro mean the people who want to drive will have an easier time of it. Second, all of the studies contradict what you assert in the bolded. Please stop repeating it. Repeating lies often don't make them true.[/quote]

You think a guy on a bike is going to pick up $2000 dinner check at the Palm a couple of times a month?  Look, if you want a city full of Potbellys then keep building bike lanes.  [/quote]

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