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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so sick of all of these people saying their streets need to be treated differently because they are "cut through" - no, these are all public spaces and should be accessible by and for the public at all times. It really isn't fair to push traffic on to other streets because you don't like it on yours. Buy a house on a different street out in the country. We live in a city. Tough it out.[/quote]

There’s something called the FHA functional classification of streets, which DC follows.  Narrow residential streets are not the same as an arterial like Wisconsin Avenue and may not be appropriate for thru traffic.  The statement that “you live in a city” is absurd.  Bethesda and some other parts of Montgomery County are more urban that some DC neighborhoods, and MoCo has very effective traffic calming, including no thru traffic limitations.  Don’t be an idiot.[/quote]

Yes, downtown Silver Spring is more "urban" than Palisades.  That is irrelevent.  That's also not where any of the "traffic calming" takes place.  The desire to force all traffic onto "arterials" in order to segregate single family homes from the hoi polloi is bad from both a practical and philosophical perspective.  It is sefish and it is a waste of community resources.  Nobody is better or more deserving than anybody else.  City streets are public goods and it is a profound violation of the public trust and social contract to give special rights to a few.  The city was designed as a grid.  Every street plays a role.  Dont be a selfish hole.[/quote]

A few years back DC installed speed humps on the NW street where we live.  For the first year or so, there were jerks who blared their car horn at each and every speed hump, with the apparent intent of intimidating residents to beg DC to remove the traffic calming.  God forbid that DC actually force drivers passing through to slow down just a little bit, when the streets belong to everyone!  Might the PP have been one of those obnoxious honkers?[/quote]

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