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[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]
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 high quality theatre experiences are available more conveniently and closer to home.

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

Or that a family of four will take their kids to separate schools via bike and then head on in to work on their bicycle. Not realistic. [/quote]

Actually, we do this everyday. Not saying everyone needs to do this, but plenty of people in my neighborhood do exactly this. It’s one of the reasons we chose to live here.[/quote]

Me too. For many - not all - of us, it’s not only possible - but often faster and less stressful - to use a combination of public transport and bikes to get our kids to school and to get to work. Try it sometime.[/quote]

+1. I drive a car once a year. If I wanted to drive more, I’d move to the suburbs. I don’t want to drive which is why I live in the city. [/quote]

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