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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t a street that’s closed to through traffic basically a publicly funded shared driveway?[/quote]

No, it's a street that people can comfortably use while not in a car. [/quote]

In AU Park where I see them, all the slow streets could be comfortably navigated while not in a car before the barriers went up.[/quote]

"comfortably navigated" by whom?[/quote]

Pedestrians, bicyclists, scootering kids, etc. These are not busy streets to start with. [/quote]

So, pedestrians, bicyclists, scootering kids can comfortable be in (not cross) the streets, even when they're not slow streets? You'd have been comfortable teaching your four-year-old how to ride a bike in those streets last year? Or letting your five-year-old go by themselves to visit their friend on the other side of the street at the other end of the block? Or letting your six-year-old play kickball in those streets?[/quote]

Children should not be playing kickball in any streets. [b]That’s not their purpose.[/b] I taught my kids to ride their bikes on the sidewalk and at the park a few blocks away. [/quote]

Says who? We're talking about neighborhood streets, right? Why shouldn't streets belong to everyone, including neighborhood kids playing kickball?[/quote]

They are roads, not sidewalks. They were built for car traffic. Are you on one of those blocks who just blocked it off yourselves with cones last year, thinking the pandemic somehow just changed all the rules? If you don't like the way your street works, move. It is not up to you to alter DC traffic. You should have done the homework about traffic in your neighborhood before you moved in. [/quote]

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