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"Streets Closed to Vehicular Traffic"

Downtown Leesburg, Virginia, car-free for one weekend

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Addison Del Mastro
Jul 12, 2022
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How do you get suburbanites and small-town Americans to embrace car-free streets? Have a festival!

Back in April, my wife and I went to the Flower & Garden Festival in downtown Leesburg, Virginia (not, by the way, named for Robert E. Lee). For those of you not familiar with the area, Leesburg is the county seat of Loudoun County, immediately west of Fair…

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