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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's what's so wrong about these efforts.  Upper Connecticut will never be cool or hip.  That's because it is the part of town that people move to when they start families and stop being cool or hip.  It's a land of mom jeans and power walks.  Conversations about schools and youth sports.  Kid friendly restaurants and gardening.  It's where Gen Z and Zoomers live at home with their parents.  It's where Gen X moved when they had kids, just like the Boomers before them, and Millennials now.

To put it simply, there are too many kids and fuddy duddies to ever attract the trendy and childless.  [/quote]

It's the first I've ever heard that walking and riding a bike are things only done by the trendy and childless. I've been walking since I was 1, and riding a bike since I was 4, so this comes as quite a surprise.[/quote]

It's ok, you got old and are no longer hip or cool.  There's no shame in that.  It's the circle of life.  Remember, there is nothing less cool than a parent trying to pretend that they are.  So it was and so shall it be.[/quote]

I'm the PP you're responding to, and I have never even aspired to be hip or cool, before, during, or after kids in the house. What does that have to do with walking and riding a bike?[/quote]

You seem not to have read the post immediately above the one you responded to.

Everyone already bikes and walks within the neighborhoods on the side streets.  The very places you seemingly wish to divert traffic to.[/quote]

Maybe that's "equitable" because that's where more of the single family houses are?[/quote]

I mean, let's take a look at that. People live on Ordway, people live on Connecticut, so why is Ordway a "neighborhood street" and there shouldn't be cars, but Connecticut isn't a "neighborhood street" and there should be cars?[/quote]

Connecticut is a truck route and Ordway isn't for one: [url]https://ddot.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/ddot/service_content/attachments/DC%20Truck%20Map%20Brochure_12.10.20_web.pdf[/url]

Ordway isn't a straight shot from the beltway to downtown either.

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You're just explaining that what is, is. Everyone knows that.

Instead, please explain why people who live on one street (Connecticut) should have to live with noise, pollution, and danger from cars, so that people who live on a different street (for example, Ordway) can be protected from noise, pollution, and danger from cars.[/quote]

I'll be glad to once you admit that your idea increases congestion and makes those other streets less safe for pedestrians and bikers.[/quote]

Eh? No, you're the one saying that.[/quote]

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