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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Given that a few thousand businesses have left downtown D.C. over the past two years, you would think that the city would be exploring ways to encourage more people to return and spend their money.

It may pain some District residents to hear this, but the city needs the suburbs. At this point, making the city less accessible by car will only hurt the District and strengthen the cycle of economic disinvestment and rising crime.[/quote]

public transport must be improved, not private transport, which makes the city a terrible place. And as everybody knows: a lot of busniesses had to close in the last two years beacuse of the pandemic. Bikers and pedestrians are not the cause.[/quote]

WMATA is broken. Systemic incompetence combined with a lack of meaningful political will to fix it means we’re years away from potentially having a well-managed public transportation network in the region. Downtown D.C. can’t wait years.

Of course the pandemic caused the mass closure of businesses downtown. But pedestrians and cyclists aren’t enough to re-invest in the area; the city desperately needs the suburbs as well.[/quote]

Traffic will not return to the same levels post-pandemic because of WFH. That’s why all this grousing about being “car friendly” is so off key. There’s so little traffic that people are driving much more recklessly. DC is going to have to figure out how to replace the lost tax revenue, and making the city even more hostile to walkers is not it. [/quote]

Traffic downtown now exceeds pre-pandemic levels.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/05/25/dc-pandemic-rush-hour-traffic[/quote]

But that’s spread out through the day. Still different. When Metro headways decrease, metro ridership will too. In the meantime I don’t really gaf about the driving experience of people refusing to take metro. [/quote]

So you were just lying when you said "there's so little traffic".  Why do you lie about everything?[/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

I know.  The non-stop lying is really odd.  It's almost as if you know these policies are bad for the city, bad for residents, and will cause an outrage if people knew what was happening.  [/quote]

It’s actually the hysterical paranoia from you that’s odd. One the one hand, you have people making transparent arguments to improve traffic safety and mobility in DC. There’s no question that this side can have its excesses. But on the other hand, we have the “car friendly” people making bizarre and paranoid arguments, ranging from traffic calming creating driver mental illness to 9-11. I’ve been a part of a lot of policy debates in my day, and I can say that the NIMBYs (traffic or housing) are singularly unhinged. That’s not to say there is not a legitimate difference of opinion. Sometimes there is, like the impact of automated traffic enforcement. But whooo boy, the NIMBYs can get absolutely nuts. My theory is that it’s a mixture of life disappointment and clinical rigidity that makes them react so extremely and lose touch with reality when something in their environment changes.  [/quote]

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