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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Suck it drivers. Parks are for people not cars. I hope they close every single road in Rock Creek Park to cars and only allow bikes and public transit.

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I’m fine with that.  And major arterials are for moving traffic, not expansive bike lanes.  Bikers can use closed Beach Dr to their heart’s content.[/quote]
Except that's not DDOT's policy[/quote]

They can’t constrain an arterial like Connecticut Ave and close Beach Drive at the same time.  Traffic won’t magically go away.  More likely it will cut through neighborhoods looking for a route around the main road congestion.  [/quote]

This. Closing Beach Drive on weekdays hurts far more DC residents than it helps. Most people have to work for a living - they're not using their [b]elliptical bike on Beach Drive at 11am on a Wednesday[/b]. Close Beach => more traffic on Conn Ave => more traffic on NWDC residential streets => fewer weekday commuters into DC => fewer patrons for downtown businesses AND fewer jobs. But hey a few UMC bikers will have the roadway all to themselves, just a few years after $33m in our tax dollars were spent in rehabilitating Beach Drive for cars as well as recreational use.[/quote]

Ok but people working for a living are not commuting by car on beach drive at 11am that much either.[/quote]

Of course they are. Which is why the road was busy enough that NPS spent $33m to rehab it a few years ago. Why was the MD portion of Beach Drive re-opened last year (it had been closed during the pandemic too.) Because it's needed for car traffic and there's very little recreational use on weekdays anyway.[/quote]

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