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Nikkers1416 t1_iy9p4uy wrote

Reply to comment by cptjeff in NPS and DDOT moving ahead with road redesign in East Potomac Park. One vehicle lane on Ohio Drive from the East Potomac Golf Course to Hains Point and back to Buckeye Drive will be replaced with a dedicated bicycle and pedestrian lane. Work expected to begin next month by mistersmiley318

So with one option you have families who'd have to park in the parking lots (that are already there) and walk a little further to their picnic spots with the Ohio loop closed to cars. And with the other, you have people (of all races) literally dying. Okay, yeah though toss up for sure.

It was blocked to cars through much of the COVID lockdown and I saw plenty of people having cookouts.

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cptjeff t1_iy9rpn0 wrote

> It was blocked to cars through much of the COVID lockdown

...And that one is just a flat out lie.

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Nikkers1416 t1_iyawp94 wrote

...were you here during that time?

https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/management/record-of-determination-for-a-public-use-limitation-to-prevent-spread-of-covid-19.htm

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cptjeff t1_iyaxjus wrote

Three months at the very beginning of covid when they shut down the entire tidal basin area to nearly everyone, not 'much of the entire covid lockdown'. In comparison to all of covid, that shutdown was incredibly brief. I spent quite a lot of the summer and fall of 2020 sitting out there when I had a badly sprained ankle and needed nice outdoor settings I could easily drive to. There was never a closure like Beach Drive to encourage more recreational use, the only closure was intended to (and did) shut down nearly all use.

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veloharris t1_iyavdbd wrote

It was never blocked to cars because of COVID. It's blocked during cherry blossom season, maybe you went then and thought it was COVID?

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