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[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]
It’s fascinating that you believe the city is so enthralling that people in the suburbs will willingly and in large numbers take public transit into the city for recreation and entertainment purposes over other options, if only public transit was better? This is seriously deluded thinking that is contradicted by the fact that people in the suburbs refuse to take transit today to go to the city for work. But sure, on a Saturday they’ll hop on the metro for shopping or a performance at the Shakespeare Theatre when the same stores or [b]high quality theatre experiences are available more conveniently and closer to home. [/b]

The reality is that another sectoral shift has occurred (starting back in 2015) away from cities and these policies just accelerate the inevitable.  [/quote]

LOL - I've been to the Olney theater as I have the misfortune to have family there and well my kids HS musical this year was of similar quality to what I saw there.  I will grant that Strathmore is very nice and on the Metro so we've been a few times.[/quote]
It’s funny how you behavior just reinforces the point that you are a selfish, arrogant ideologue that actually and actively disparages the people in your community.

This area will be a much better place when you decide to return to Grosse Pointe, MI or wherever you came.

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So OP should return to the suburbs so people from the suburbs can drive to DC as fast as they want to enjoy the urban cultural amenities? Makes sense. Basically DC should be like a suburban strip mall off the highway with giant free parking lots?[/quote]

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