The 1% Would Like You To Know It Disdains Your "Car-Free Day"

Arlington (0.00 / 0)

I think a car free day in Arlington makes total sense.  It's the type of community and has the demographics that really make that work.  What surprises me is that Mr. Campbell wants to live in Arlington -- indeed, as he even alludes -- he sounds like he would be much happier in a Fairfax or even further out county.

But I didn't make the immediate leap to a 1%.  Mostly because I have family who participate in car clubs -- in my family, its the Studebaker that is beloved over all things.  Several family members socialize within this group of car owners, and I assure you, these are blue collar people who enjoy getting their hands dirty -- which is part of what it means to belong to a car club.

Not sure why he doesn't think there couldn't be a bus- or Metro-owners club though.  Such ideas exist in literature, after all.  Not here in DC, but in books written about NYC and also in Latin American fiction, where public transportation takes on a more mythical quality.  Just like cars do for many Americans.

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by: GretchenLaskas @ Wed Oct 26, 2011 at 15:19:24 PM UTC

Metro social club (0.00 / 0)

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by: TheGreenMiles @ Wed Oct 26, 2011 at 15:23:52 PM UTC

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All we need is an Arlington based Jorge Luis Borges type writer to write about "The Orange Line" and create a magical realist journey into the lives of the people on it from Vienna to New Carrollton!  It's not the sort of writing that I do, but I would absolutely read it!

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by: GretchenLaskas @ Wed Oct 26, 2011 at 15:37:02 PM UTC

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