Davenport St NW

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Anonymous wrote:They’re right; you’re wrong.

Public street, public access. The residents own exactly 0% of the street, they have no more right to tell people how to use it than I do, because they own exactly as much of the street as I do.

If they were offering to buy the property from the District and pay all the associated costs of maintenance I'd consider taking them seriously, but I'd also hope even then DC would tell them to kick rocks, because it's a stupid entitled complaint put up by stupid entitled NIMBYs.

Yet residents are required to clear sidewalks. Not talking about Davenport but any street that does have them in front of a resident's single family property or if it's not the responsibility of an HOA . If residents "own 0%" why doesn't the city clear sidewalks within 24-48hrs after snow ends?

It's not surprising someone so selfish as to support closing off a public street for the exclusive use of the rich would also be so selfish as to take offense at being asked to spend 15 minutes making it safe for their neighbors to walk, but it still makes me sad I have to share oxygen with people like you.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to live on Davenport Street and I fully support them doing this. That street is for local use by residents. It's not designed for heavy commuter traffic. DC should stop congestion major roads like Conn Ave with stupid bike lanes and let the commuters get in and out of the city in peace.

Let’s repeat this. You do NOT own a public street. The banning of commuter traffic on certain streets happens mainly in upper northwest.
The only way to lesson traffic (bike lanes have nothing to do with it), is to reduce car dependent. Work from home goes a long way in doing this. So expect traffic to get much worse if feds start back five days a week. Much much worse.
—an urban planner

It's already much much worse on lower volume because that is what DDOT has intentionally done. When traffic lanes are narrowed and removed, traffic lights and cameras are increased, and random streets and turns are blocked off then congestion becomes worse. This is a man made problem not a function of increased population or traffic.

The “neighbors” are not complaining about congestion. They are complaining about unsafe driving. Yet the rejected the traffic calming solutions put forth by DDOT. What the really want is to close the street to traffic, which yes, is privileged and deluded.

Play whatever word games make you happy but they're complaining about too many people using the road. That's why they want to ban other people from using the street. Normal people call that congestion.

People driving unsafely down the street is not “congestion.”

But you're forgetting that according to DDOT, and the backers of this proposal, congestion increases safety. The more people that use it the safer it becomes. They should be pleased at how much safer it has become since Albemarle was blocked off and how much safer it will be when they remove two more lanes from Connecticut.

Albemarle will be reopened when the construction is done. The complaints are meaningless.

The Albemarle reopening is like Waiting for Godot. No sign of workers for months now. Just an idle excavator. The Forest Hills Connection even did a story on how residents of Albermarle have been jubilating with kids being able to roam freely, neighbors throwing block parties and getting to know each other better. This closure ain't ending any time soon.

What are they supposed to be doing? And why doesn't anybody ever seem to be working there?

This is just another example of why elections matter. Our councilman is completely checked-out on quality of life issues like crime, road conditions, etc. I spent months trying to get his office to engage about a homeless guy camping on our block and they couldn’t be bothered they were on the homeless guys side! His sole focus is on race related issues and formerly bike lanes.

Couldn't disagree with you more. His office has been incredibly responsive to a variety of issues that have come up.

Were you trying to get a park renamed from a mean dead guy? Because that’s really all he does. And bike lanes.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to live on Davenport Street and I fully support them doing this. That street is for local use by residents. It's not designed for heavy commuter traffic. DC should stop congestion major roads like Conn Ave with stupid bike lanes and let the commuters get in and out of the city in peace.

Let’s repeat this. You do NOT own a public street. The banning of commuter traffic on certain streets happens mainly in upper northwest.
The only way to lesson traffic (bike lanes have nothing to do with it), is to reduce car dependent. Work from home goes a long way in doing this. So expect traffic to get much worse if feds start back five days a week. Much much worse.
—an urban planner

It's already much much worse on lower volume because that is what DDOT has intentionally done. When traffic lanes are narrowed and removed, traffic lights and cameras are increased, and random streets and turns are blocked off then congestion becomes worse. This is a man made problem not a function of increased population or traffic.

The “neighbors” are not complaining about congestion. They are complaining about unsafe driving. Yet the rejected the traffic calming solutions put forth by DDOT. What the really want is to close the street to traffic, which yes, is privileged and deluded.

Play whatever word games make you happy but they're complaining about too many people using the road. That's why they want to ban other people from using the street. Normal people call that congestion.

People driving unsafely down the street is not “congestion.”

But you're forgetting that according to DDOT, and the backers of this proposal, congestion increases safety. The more people that use it the safer it becomes. They should be pleased at how much safer it has become since Albemarle was blocked off and how much safer it will be when they remove two more lanes from Connecticut.

Albemarle will be reopened when the construction is done. The complaints are meaningless.

The Albemarle reopening is like Waiting for Godot. No sign of workers for months now. Just an idle excavator. The Forest Hills Connection even did a story on how residents of Albermarle have been jubilating with kids being able to roam freely, neighbors throwing block parties and getting to know each other better. This closure ain't ending any time soon.

What are they supposed to be doing? And why doesn't anybody ever seem to be working there?

This is just another example of why elections matter. Our councilman is completely checked-out on quality of life issues like crime, road conditions, etc. I spent months trying to get his office to engage about a homeless guy camping on our block and they couldn’t be bothered they were on the homeless guys side! His sole focus is on race related issues and formerly bike lanes.

You called the wrong phone number. We called the cops and the homeless guy who had set up camp in the alley was gone by the end of the week.

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Anonymous wrote:What the neighbor calls a "shortcut" is just my normal route. Should I drive way out of my way and add 15 minutes to my commute to convenience her? I guess everything is a "shortcut" if it takes someone past your house.

Please don't make this the same mess that the people on Fessenden did, where now you have to by pass your own street and unnecessarily, stupidly drive into Tenleytown and back out again to get home just so you drive past your neighbors's hour on one block of Fessenden. Ridiculous.

Fessenden is a two way street from Western Avenue all the way to Broad Branch Ter./32nd street. What are you talking about?

The no turn off River signs.

Aren't the no left turn signs during rush hour so that the one-lane river road doesn't back up from someone trying to take a left for 5 minutes?