End of the "Streatery" eyesores
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Anonymous
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https://dc.citycast.fm/food-drink/more-changes-to-dc-streatery-program-2025
I was so happy to see this news that the streatery program is effectively over. Particularly in Georgetown where the street barricades are just so, so ugly. Let flush all the pandemic-era nonsense and get back to normal! |
Anonymous
| Yes because diminishing the vibrancy of street dining is sure to start solving the city’s problems. |
Anonymous
Be real. There is no vibrancy to empty, ugly, tables in the middle of the street. |
Anonymous
| I never did like it. Georgetown has the biggest rat population in the city. You sit down and rats walk by you. Rats the size of a cat. |
Anonymous
| Thank goodness. They were so ugly. |
Anonymous
No they aren't / weren't. You just want the extra street lane back. But induced demand is a reality. So despite what you think, your commute ain't getting any quicker. |
Anonymous
| No quicker traffic but you can get covid an extra time or two a year. Just sniffles, until you're 20 years older and on onygen. |
Anonymous
| And yet Rosemary's Bistro still maintains its trashy concrete block tented streetery on Connecticut Avenue. Unbelievable! |
Anonymous
I am a DC resident who does NOT want the extra lane (or parking spaces) back, but I do think they were ugly. What I'd like to see is for sidewalks to be widened to make it possible to fit more outdoor dining on the sidewalks next to pedestrian walkways. I'd also support closing streets to most car traffic and then paving them in a way that make a more permanent patio in the street make sense. The streeteries, however, were ugly temporary structures that often created cavities where dirt, water (and thus mosquitos and rats) would gather, as a lot of restaurants built platforms off the curb out of plywood. Also even the streeteries that looked nice from the sidewalk side were often hideous from the other side. Well, I have to look at that too. In fact, if I'm not dining at the restaurant, I'm way more likely to be treated to the sight of the unfinished plywood, often covered in graffiti or posters, than to whatever nicer covering is on the restaurant side. It's also a give away of public property to private business. I know for some reason everyone decided bars and restaurants were nonprofit charities at some point, but they aren't. I want to see that property used for public goods, like pedestrian access, trees and planters that increase our urban canopy, bike lanes, and facilitating the safe passage of disabled people, children, and families with strollers. There's no longer an emergency reason for the streeteries, which were created to facilitate outdoor and socially distanced dining during the pandemic. |
Anonymous
Last time it was five years later and you will be on oxygen. Things are improving. |
Anonymous
Hell yes. I support their streetery! |
Anonymous
Omgeee. Disgusting. |
Anonymous
| Well the ones outside my office are certainly ugly so, good riddance. |
Anonymous
| Streeteries… top issue of our times |
Anonymous
| The real question is whether DC will enforce their own rules. With Rosemarys Bistro on Conn Ave they approved it against all the streatery rules ( emergency route, rush hour lane , the list goes on ) and despite constant complaints just ignored anyone who objected. |