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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The lights on 355 suck. I can’t make more than two at a time it doesn’t help that sooo many people are on their phones. I watched a woman FaceTiming today near Georgetown pike. The car behind her didn’t care, he was texting!  If you really look, nearly everyone is a distracted driver. That and poor light signaling causes major delays. [/quote]

Why are you all so wedded to commuting and being a prisoner in your cars?  Why aren't you lobbying your local government, showing up at planning commission meetings etc to lobby for the office space and amenities you need?[/quote]
You realize that the “housing first” policies and poor job environment, including poor infrastructure- particularly road infrastructure- means that there are no businesses with jobs to fill that office space. You want less people who live here to commute long distances then there needs to be job creation here. [/quote]

Job creation?  The jobs already exist, they just aren't distributed correctly.  DC is chock full of people commuting here from outside.  The daytime population of DC doubles during working hours.  Hundreds of thousands of people commute into DC from MoCo, PG, Arlington, Fairfax etc.  When I walk my morning or afternoon commute Roughly 65-70% of the license plates I see are MD plates, 25-30% VA plates, and it's only the tiny remainder that are either actual DC commuters or out-of-state tourists.

Those hundreds of thousands of people - they should be working in MoCo, PG, Arlington, Fairfax instead of DC.  They should be lobbying their local government leaders to improve their own infrastructure, and to attract businesses to their own zip codes rather than sitting in congested rush hour traffic trying to get into DC.  They should be lobbying for their own walkability and bike lanes.  But instead they cling to their cookie cutter subdivisions, their strip malls, their antiquated zoning models that put miles between residents and businesses, with barely any sidewalks or bike lanes to get around on if you did want to bike, walk or scooter as tens of thousands of DC residents do.[/quote]

Hmmm…pp…the jobs are in DC because lawyers, trade associations, and the federal government all do business there! [/quote]

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