Privatizing DC roads?!: Chain Bridge Rd and University Terr

[Anonymous]

Further to the post about DC applying unreasonable standards to residential streets (bs the central business district). DDOT was proposing to widen existing sidewalks along Macomb St in an historic district to 5 or 6 feet. Fortunately that plan has been paused, but it shows that DC sometimes uses little common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Further to the post about DC applying unreasonable standards to residential streets (bs the central business district). DDOT was proposing to widen existing sidewalks along Macomb St in an historic district to 5 or 6 feet. Fortunately that plan has been paused, but it shows that DC sometimes uses little common sense.

We all know that the DC government frequently uses little common sense. That this effort to close these roads was even considered is the prime example.

[Anonymous]

No through traffic can't be enforced unless you have cops at both ends. don't worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No through traffic can't be enforced unless you have cops at both ends. don't worry about.

If you stop along the way you're not through traffic. So to really enforce no through traffic you'd have to have continuous observation along the entire length, roughly 3/4 mile.

But the unenforceability is a reason not to do it, not a reason why it's OK, as the proponents would have you believe.

[Anonymous]

4,000 people saw this plus many more on the list serve plus family and friends. There will be a noticeable out of spite uptick in the traffic and nothing we can do about it.

The neighborhood has been on a steady downward slide for a while now. The few cantankerous senior citizens are why we can’t have nice things. Fight the plane noise, the sewage run off, the Bk destruction and no grocery store - not the schools and legitimate (minimal traffic) we used to get

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4,000 people saw this plus many more on the list serve plus family and friends. There will be a noticeable out of spite uptick in the traffic and nothing we can do about it.

The neighborhood has been on a steady downward slide for a while now. The few cantankerous senior citizens are why we can’t have nice things. Fight the plane noise, the sewage run off, the Bk destruction and no grocery store - not the schools and legitimate (minimal traffic) we used to get

We can’t we have nice things like beautiful, vibrant Cathedral Commons?

[Anonymous]

I was thinking more along the Normanstone vibes which the neighborhood has fallen so far behind but once aspired to be, but you do you. Enjoy the traffic, plane noise, pollution, run off, endless construction, next door folk peering into your bedroom, school overcrowding, no grocery store and now the mocking of your peers in your dotage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was thinking more along the Normanstone vibes which the neighborhood has fallen so far behind but once aspired to be, but you do you. Enjoy the traffic, plane noise, pollution, run off, endless construction, next door folk peering into your bedroom, school overcrowding, no grocery store and now the mocking of your peers in your dotage.

I didn’t realize that the Supreme Court’s far-conservative majority resides in the neighborhood!

[Anonymous]

We should really look into privatizing DC 295 and tolling it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should really look into privatizing DC 295 and tolling it.

295 should be either demolished or tunnelized. Like many urban highways constructed across the US aim the 50s, it was an economic wrecking ball for black neighborhoods. There is no single thing that the city could to revitalize communities EOTR than to get rid of that road and restore access to the waterfront.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should really look into privatizing DC 295 and tolling it.

295 should be either demolished or tunnelized. Like many urban highways constructed across the US aim the 50s, it was an economic wrecking ball for black neighborhoods. There is no single thing that the city could to revitalize communities EOTR than to get rid of that road and restore access to the waterfront.

L-O-L

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should really look into privatizing DC 295 and tolling it.

295 should be either demolished or tunnelized. Like many urban highways constructed across the US aim the 50s, it was an economic wrecking ball for black neighborhoods. There is no single thing that the city could to revitalize communities EOTR than to get rid of that road and restore access to the waterfront.

L-O-L

Generations of poverty, violence, and illness created by big dumb infrastructure projects may be a joke to you, but I assure you that it’s not to those who have experienced it.

Good article on what this road has done to those who have the misfortune to live on the wrong side of it: https://ggwash.org/view/81903/both-route-295-and-railroads-divide-neighborhoods-in-northeast-dc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4,000 people saw this plus many more on the list serve plus family and friends. There will be a noticeable out of spite uptick in the traffic and nothing we can do about it.

The neighborhood has been on a steady downward slide for a while now. The few cantankerous senior citizens are why we can’t have nice things. Fight the plane noise, the sewage run off, the Bk destruction and no grocery store - not the schools and legitimate (minimal traffic) we used to get

What is the bk destruction?

[Anonymous]

It’s the least of the serious concerns listed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should really look into privatizing DC 295 and tolling it.

295 should be either demolished or tunnelized. Like many urban highways constructed across the US aim the 50s, it was an economic wrecking ball for black neighborhoods. There is no single thing that the city could to revitalize communities EOTR than to get rid of that road and restore access to the waterfront.

L-O-L

Generations of poverty, violence, and illness created by big dumb infrastructure projects may be a joke to you, but I assure you that it’s not to those who have experienced it.

Good article on what this road has done to those who have the misfortune to live on the wrong side of it: https://ggwash.org/view/81903/both-route-295-and-railroads-divide-neighborhoods-in-northeast-dc

The fact that you provide a link to a GGW article is perfect.

295 blocking access to Bolling AFB and Anacostia Park is not creating poverty. You’re an idiot.

Poverty is not a joke to me but you certainly are.