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dcmcg t1_j6i9fba wrote

I got to be a good neighbor this weekend--someone a block over from me appeared to have misplaced about 10 bags of their trash in the alley behind my house. Thankfully they left multiple pieces of mail with their address in it, so I was able to return it to their back alley promptly and it wasn't lost after all.

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dcmcg t1_j5u9syw wrote

There were massive battles in the 2000s about whether the Silver line should be above ground or below ground. The Bush Admin wanted the elevated line to reduce costs, and threatened to pull funding otherwise.

NOMA and a lot of the Red Line is built on an existing rail ROW so it was never going to be underground. Same for the ends of some of the other lines. WMATA is certainly not "considering" more underground stations in the sense of moving above ground stations to below ground.

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dcmcg t1_j0596et wrote

>While i understand part of the idea is to not overcrowd the streets in the surrounding area, this seems like the apartments and city are forcing residents to pay their outrageous $250+ monthly parking fees.

Sorry but you're not entitled to park your personal vehicle on public space for $50 a year. Sometimes you have to pay market rate when parking is a scarce resource.

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dcmcg t1_iy3mv18 wrote

Please provide a single piece of evidence to support this.

Jacksonville is run entirely by Republicans, and traffic deaths are up massively:

According to the report, there were 207 fatal car accident in Jacksonville, including 50 pedestrians and 47 motorcycle crash victims in 2021...​Compare that to 166 fatal crashes in 2019 and 143 in 2018.

Sorry to let facts get in the way of your narrative.

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dcmcg t1_ivyo2w2 wrote

What kind of place are you looking for? You're going to have trouble finding anything other than 1br or small 2br apartments for under $3k in a neighborhood with what's considered a "good" elementary school.

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dcmcg t1_it38eau wrote

Yes that's normal. A lot of new buildings sign agreements prohibiting residents from getting an RPP in order to appease zoning concerns.

Parking is a valuable and finite resource, especially in dense areas like NoMa. It's crazy to me how many people just expect it to be free or cheap.

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