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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sucks. When I bought my home, I looked at road options for commuting, and that was a major draw
Now, if there's a blockage of Military Rd after 14th st to StJohns, what do emergency vehicles do? Where's the workaround?
Very shortsighted decision [/quote]

Well, hopefully [b]cars get out of the way of the ambulance[/b].  Not entirely sure ambulances would have used Beach drive anyway[/quote]
That's the issue, there's NO PLACE for cars to go. It's 2 lanes each way with walls on either side. Take a look at a map of the area

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and turn lanes at many intersections, so, plenty of places for cars to get out of the way.[/quote]Wrong. Clearly you haven't actually driven that stretch. Some of the rods are underpasses to military, NOT intersections[/quote]

I was referring to Connectucut Avenue, not Beach Drive.

Emergency vehices will always be able to access Beach Drive. This has never been controversial or a question.[/quote]

I have a problem with that.

Why are emergency vehicles exempt? And without other traffic allowed to use the road, why would there even be the most common type of emergency to respond to - car crashes? [/quote]

The ambulance could be going from one place to another, not going to a place in the park.  It's hard to move an ambulance in dense car traffic, but pedestrians and bicyclists can clear a road really quickly by moving off to the side.[/quote]

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