I love my children and I love my job, but I dread driving to work and school every morning and every afternoon. Why? Because the roads in Washington, D.C., are hell, and they don’t have to be this way.
D.C. driving is already bad—the district is built on two intersecting grids, so roads don’t just turn the city into blocks but also into confusing triangular pizza slices—but Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city council have instituted a series of “reforms” that make driving 100 times worse than it already was.
Furthermore, I suspect that the city council is intentionally making things worse for drivers, in an effort at social manipulation. If bureaucrats mistakenly believe that carbon emissions are dooming the planet, they might justify making life miserable in order to force people to take public transit.
Here’s just a taste of the horrible experiences I and…
