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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want children playing kickball in the street, move to the suburbs. Seriously, you’re in the wrong place. Do you think kids should be able to play in the streets of Manhattan? If you let your kids play in the street in DC, you should have your head examined. [/quote]

I don’t understand this mentality of “if you don’t like X then move to Y.”  A city and its government should be responsive to the different needs of its citizens. If some residents of a citizen want to advocate for bike lanes and some want to advocate for higher speed limits for cars so they can get to their destination, the result should reflect in some way what the citizens want and what helps the city grow.  50 years ago many circles were cut down to provide more car lanes- why didn’t the people who wanted that just move instead of trying to change the city to suit them?

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People are free to lobby for whatever stupid thing they want. But if you want kids playing in the streets — and huge yards and you want to live in a McMansion — then you should move because city living isn’t for you. [/quote]

See, that's really weird, because until recently (= cars), here's where city kids played: in the streets.[/quote]

I’ve been in DC for 25 years and I don’t remember kids ever playing the streets. Good way of getting yourself killed.[/quote]

Who lets their kids play in the streets?[/quote]

It used to be really common before cars. It's declined because cars turn otherwise normal people into sociopaths who can't be expected not to run over children and it's a loss for our kids.[/quote]

Before cars? You mean the 1800s?

Try to come up with a less stupid argument.[/quote]

DP. No, the 1920s. It's a historical fact.[/quote]

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