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I will help you.  The 1% pay 40% of the taxes and the top 10% pay 70% of the taxes.  I’m saying the vast majority of the top 10% want to drive to work in their air conditioned car.  They’ve worked hard and have earned this luxury.  You may know a few HHI people who like to ride their bikes or crowd into a smelly METRO car, but they are the exception.  If you make the commutes hellish for those 10%, those folks ain’t coming to work downtown. Restaurants will fail, commercial real estate will fail, small businesses of all types will fail. [/quote]

Shorter PP: I prefer to drive and believe that society should be structured around this preference.[/quote]

There's 360,000 cars registered in DC. There's approximately seven 25-year old white guys in DC who are really into bike lanes. Maybe we should do majority rules? [/quote]

The majority of people in DC don't drive to work, my dude.  I believe the number is around 40%.

You're welcome to come up with whatever rules you'd like in your own sofa fortress.  It has no bearing on reality here, which is: more and better bike / pedestrian infrastructure.[/quote]

The Census Bureau said that in 2019 only 34 percent of Washingtonians, and just 13 percent of everyone in the metro area, commuted by public transportation. If anything, those numbers are probably going to fall with so many people souring on the subway system. You can look up the numbers yourself (instead of, you know, making things up).

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/acs/acs-48.pdf[/quote]

You're welcome to lobby your MD and VA pols however you want.  Heck, you can lobby my DC pols, but I'm an actual voter here.  You presented numbers on the DC region and nothing about people walking, biking, etc.  So... get your argument straight?[/quote]

Forty percent of Washingtonians drive to work, 34 percent take public transportation, 13 percent walk and 4 percent bike.

Of course that's only part of the picture though because a large percentage of people commuting in DC live in Virginia and Maryland, and they are more much likely to drive and take public transportation and much less likely to walk or bike.

So, yes, most people drive.

https://www.bts.gov/sites/bts.dot.gov/files/states2020/District_of_Columbia.pdf

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The consistent theme I am seeing here is a proclivity of people to just make things up. And it is always the people who are advocating the same thing. [/quote]

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