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

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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.

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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.

Did you just arrive from Mars or something? That highways - like 295 - decimated black inner city communities is foundational American history. I’d recommend this for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/. 295 is certainly not the sole cause of the problems EOTR, but there is no doubt that those neighborhoods would be significantly improved were the highway to be covered or dismantled entirely. One of the few positives of the Big Dig was what it did for downtown Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html).

The reason that upper NW inside the beltway is so nice is they fought off the originally planned interstates in the area. Pretty much every nice neighborhood today does not have a highway running through it. I don't get why some people fail to see any link here.

There was a plan - which would have been built had it not been for a few GU students sabotaging the construction equipment - to build a massive highway across the Potomac and through the Foxhall and Georgetown neighborhoods over to U Street. Does anyone seriously think the multi-million dollar houses in the Palisades would be there today if that highway had been built?

It was Peter Craig and Roberts Owen who fought the legal battles that stopped the highways. The GU students provided visible cover to garner support.

They are heroes — Craig and Roberts and the network of activists from across DC who stopped the large highway network. Several DC neighborhoods were wrecked by freeways. Craig et al saved a number of others, as well as parkland, and got the funding reprogrammed to build out Metro.

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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.

Did you just arrive from Mars or something? That highways - like 295 - decimated black inner city communities is foundational American history. I’d recommend this for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/. 295 is certainly not the sole cause of the problems EOTR, but there is no doubt that those neighborhoods would be significantly improved were the highway to be covered or dismantled entirely. One of the few positives of the Big Dig was what it did for downtown Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html).

The reason that upper NW inside the beltway is so nice is they fought off the originally planned interstates in the area. Pretty much every nice neighborhood today does not have a highway running through it. I don't get why some people fail to see any link here.

There was a plan - which would have been built had it not been for a few GU students sabotaging the construction equipment - to build a massive highway across the Potomac and through the Foxhall and Georgetown neighborhoods over to U Street. Does anyone seriously think the multi-million dollar houses in the Palisades would be there today if that highway had been built?

I’d say yes. Palisades attracts a special kind of person happy to live in the worst possible conditions. Flight path? Sure. No grocery store? Sure. Poor internet, sewage, water supply? No problem. Horrible traffic jam? It’s ok.

What’s a highway in comparison

Did someone from Palisades steal your girlfriend?

You are so boring. You post the same tripe across all the boards.

I appreciate it's got to be hard for you, imagining them together in his bed, bodies intertwined, with low-flying jets awakening them three, four times a night and giving them the opportunity to consummate their passion.

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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.

Did you just arrive from Mars or something? That highways - like 295 - decimated black inner city communities is foundational American history. I’d recommend this for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/. 295 is certainly not the sole cause of the problems EOTR, but there is no doubt that those neighborhoods would be significantly improved were the highway to be covered or dismantled entirely. One of the few positives of the Big Dig was what it did for downtown Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html).

The reason that upper NW inside the beltway is so nice is they fought off the originally planned interstates in the area. Pretty much every nice neighborhood today does not have a highway running through it. I don't get why some people fail to see any link here.

There was a plan - which would have been built had it not been for a few GU students sabotaging the construction equipment - to build a massive highway across the Potomac and through the Foxhall and Georgetown neighborhoods over to U Street. Does anyone seriously think the multi-million dollar houses in the Palisades would be there today if that highway had been built?

I’d say yes. Palisades attracts a special kind of person happy to live in the worst possible conditions. Flight path? Sure. No grocery store? Sure. Poor internet, sewage, water supply? No problem. Horrible traffic jam? It’s ok.

What’s a highway in comparison

Did someone from Palisades steal your girlfriend?

You are so boring. You post the same tripe across all the boards.

I appreciate it's got to be hard for you, imagining them together in his bed, bodies intertwined, with low-flying jets awakening them three, four times a night and giving them the opportunity to consummate their passion.

Bingo. The op who is literally 2000 of the views noted - went through a bad divorce and she got the house. An expensive house on UT. Hence - the obsession with flight pattern and run off. Neither rod which has a thing to do with road closure- a valid issue. Guy lost a divorce. And that - explains this whole thread.

[Anonymous]

Wow, what an old-timey bodice ripper the PP’s feverish brain is imagining! It might be from the flight pollution.

Meanwhile, in the real world, your neighbors on these streets and around are very upset by this blatant attempt to privatize the roads. As we’ve learnt it’s both unlikely and certainly unenforceable.

And it’s created a backlash we won’t soon live down. Serves you right. Go sue another neighbor, why don’t you?

[Anonymous]

These venerable neighbors of ours in the Palisades are now warring over pickleball?!?!

I kid you not. Pickleball. They do say the flight path noise and pollution can lead to mental health issues and even brain damage. That’s the Palisades these days in a nutshell

Fight the fellow citizens driving on our roads, fight the children going to school here, fight the … I can’t even with the pickleball

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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.

Did you just arrive from Mars or something? That highways - like 295 - decimated black inner city communities is foundational American history. I’d recommend this for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/. 295 is certainly not the sole cause of the problems EOTR, but there is no doubt that those neighborhoods would be significantly improved were the highway to be covered or dismantled entirely. One of the few positives of the Big Dig was what it did for downtown Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html).

The reason that upper NW inside the beltway is so nice is they fought off the originally planned interstates in the area. Pretty much every nice neighborhood today does not have a highway running through it. I don't get why some people fail to see any link here.

There was a plan - which would have been built had it not been for a few GU students sabotaging the construction equipment - to build a massive highway across the Potomac and through the Foxhall and Georgetown neighborhoods over to U Street. Does anyone seriously think the multi-million dollar houses in the Palisades would be there today if that highway had been built?

I’d say yes. Palisades attracts a special kind of person happy to live in the worst possible conditions. Flight path? Sure. No grocery store? Sure. Poor internet, sewage, water supply? No problem. Horrible traffic jam? It’s ok.

What’s a highway in comparison

Did someone from Palisades steal your girlfriend?

You are so boring. You post the same tripe across all the boards.

I appreciate it's got to be hard for you, imagining them together in his bed, bodies intertwined, with low-flying jets awakening them three, four times a night and giving them the opportunity to consummate their passion.

Bingo. The op who is literally 2000 of the views noted - went through a bad divorce and she got the house. An expensive house on UT. Hence - the obsession with flight pattern and run off. Neither rod which has a thing to do with road closure- a valid issue. Guy lost a divorce. And that - explains this whole thread.

What a b! And a traffic loving one at that!

[Anonymous]

The Palisades neighbors are complaining that the plane noise is unbearable. It’s in writing and by many neighbors. No sex was mentioned (to the overexcitable numbwit PP thriving on imaginary romps above). The roads will never have less traffic than before, so buyer beware, no?

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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.

Did you just arrive from Mars or something? That highways - like 295 - decimated black inner city communities is foundational American history. I’d recommend this for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/. 295 is certainly not the sole cause of the problems EOTR, but there is no doubt that those neighborhoods would be significantly improved were the highway to be covered or dismantled entirely. One of the few positives of the Big Dig was what it did for downtown Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html).

The reason that upper NW inside the beltway is so nice is they fought off the originally planned interstates in the area. Pretty much every nice neighborhood today does not have a highway running through it. I don't get why some people fail to see any link here.

There was a plan - which would have been built had it not been for a few GU students sabotaging the construction equipment - to build a massive highway across the Potomac and through the Foxhall and Georgetown neighborhoods over to U Street. Does anyone seriously think the multi-million dollar houses in the Palisades would be there today if that highway had been built?

I’d say yes. Palisades attracts a special kind of person happy to live in the worst possible conditions. Flight path? Sure. No grocery store? Sure. Poor internet, sewage, water supply? No problem. Horrible traffic jam? It’s ok.

What’s a highway in comparison

Did someone from Palisades steal your girlfriend?

You are so boring. You post the same tripe across all the boards.

I appreciate it's got to be hard for you, imagining them together in his bed, bodies intertwined, with low-flying jets awakening them three, four times a night and giving them the opportunity to consummate their passion.

Bingo. The op who is literally 2000 of the views noted - went through a bad divorce and she got the house. An expensive house on UT. Hence - the obsession with flight pattern and run off. Neither rod which has a thing to do with road closure- a valid issue. Guy lost a divorce. And that - explains this whole thread.

What a b! And a traffic loving one at that!

I know it hurts now, but he's better off without her.

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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.

Did you just arrive from Mars or something? That highways - like 295 - decimated black inner city communities is foundational American history. I’d recommend this for starters: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/. 295 is certainly not the sole cause of the problems EOTR, but there is no doubt that those neighborhoods would be significantly improved were the highway to be covered or dismantled entirely. One of the few positives of the Big Dig was what it did for downtown Boston (https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html).

The reason that upper NW inside the beltway is so nice is they fought off the originally planned interstates in the area. Pretty much every nice neighborhood today does not have a highway running through it. I don't get why some people fail to see any link here.

There was a plan - which would have been built had it not been for a few GU students sabotaging the construction equipment - to build a massive highway across the Potomac and through the Foxhall and Georgetown neighborhoods over to U Street. Does anyone seriously think the multi-million dollar houses in the Palisades would be there today if that highway had been built?

I’d say yes. Palisades attracts a special kind of person happy to live in the worst possible conditions. Flight path? Sure. No grocery store? Sure. Poor internet, sewage, water supply? No problem. Horrible traffic jam? It’s ok.

What’s a highway in comparison

Did someone from Palisades steal your girlfriend?

You are so boring. You post the same tripe across all the boards.

I appreciate it's got to be hard for you, imagining them together in his bed, bodies intertwined, with low-flying jets awakening them three, four times a night and giving them the opportunity to consummate their passion.

Bingo. The op who is literally 2000 of the views noted - went through a bad divorce and she got the house. An expensive house on UT. Hence - the obsession with flight pattern and run off. Neither rod which has a thing to do with road closure- a valid issue. Guy lost a divorce. And that - explains this whole thread.

What a b! And a traffic loving one at that!

I know it hurts now, but he's better off without her.

Gosh, you come across so damaged.

[Anonymous]

Old biddy Nimbies have pulled out every trick in the tatty old racial and other discrimination book including holding a public hearing in the dead of August.

Comments on the DDOT notice on closures if these streets are accepted only through tomorrow. Email Mr. Azadeh Norouzi at [e-mail]

If they go ahead anyway, which they likely are, remember that this is unenforceable. Visit the African American cemetery there regularly and let everyone know, including your friends who own ATVs.

Yes. I consider myself a good neighbor but not that kind of good old boy. So keep driving folk, they are very nice streets for everyone to enjoy.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations neighbors, you made the press:
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/566081/a-classic-ward-3-dispute-is-playing-out-in-palisades-as-neighbors-battle-over-sidewalks-and-street-closures/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations neighbors, you made the press:
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/566081/a-classic-ward-3-dispute-is-playing-out-in-palisades-as-neighbors-battle-over-sidewalks-and-street-closures/

It’s a funny article because clearly this issue puts these young urbanists* in a bind. The war on cars is good after all but explicit benefits for rich people are bad. Is closure with no public access at all better than the status quo? Why does everyone hate the favored urbanist policy, “traffic calming”?

It’s pretty funny all around reading how the WCP and his activist ANC-rep buddy who seems to dislike his own neighbors are trying to square this circle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations neighbors, you made the press:
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/566081/a-classic-ward-3-dispute-is-playing-out-in-palisades-as-neighbors-battle-over-sidewalks-and-street-closures/

It’s a funny article because clearly this issue puts these young urbanists* in a bind. The war on cars is good after all but explicit benefits for rich people are bad. Is closure with no public access at all better than the status quo? Why does everyone hate the favored urbanist policy, “traffic calming”?

It’s pretty funny all around reading how the WCP and his activist ANC-rep buddy who seems to dislike his own neighbors are trying to square this circle.

This is just silly. No one - except the residents of UT/CB - opposes actual traffic calming measures such as speed bumps, narrowing of the road through putting in sidewalks, and a one way designation. What people are frustrated by is that a handful of extremely rich people are opposing these standard responses to traffic safety issues and instead asking the city to give them a private street so that they can be free of the crazy driving the rest of us have to deal with. It’s not the proposal of traffic calming measures that have upset people; it’s DDOT’s strange eschewing of them in this case. This whole episode stinks to high heaven.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations neighbors, you made the press:
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/566081/a-classic-ward-3-dispute-is-playing-out-in-palisades-as-neighbors-battle-over-sidewalks-and-street-closures/

It’s a funny article because clearly this issue puts these young urbanists* in a bind. The war on cars is good after all but explicit benefits for rich people are bad. Is closure with no public access at all better than the status quo? Why does everyone hate the favored urbanist policy, “traffic calming”?

It’s pretty funny all around reading how the WCP and his activist ANC-rep buddy who seems to dislike his own neighbors are trying to square this circle.

This is just silly. No one - except the residents of UT/CB - opposes actual traffic calming measures such as speed bumps, narrowing of the road through putting in sidewalks, and a one way designation. What people are frustrated by is that a handful of extremely rich people are opposing these standard responses to traffic safety issues and instead asking the city to give them a private street so that they can be free of the crazy driving the rest of us have to deal with. It’s not the proposal of traffic calming measures that have upset people; it’s DDOT’s strange eschewing of them in this case. This whole episode stinks to high heaven.

LOL. No one is basically everyone except you and your fellow progressive urbanists*, who turn out to occupy a lot of space on social media but very little out of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations neighbors, you made the press:
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/566081/a-classic-ward-3-dispute-is-playing-out-in-palisades-as-neighbors-battle-over-sidewalks-and-street-closures/

It’s a funny article because clearly this issue puts these young urbanists* in a bind. The war on cars is good after all but explicit benefits for rich people are bad. Is closure with no public access at all better than the status quo? Why does everyone hate the favored urbanist policy, “traffic calming”?

It’s pretty funny all around reading how the WCP and his activist ANC-rep buddy who seems to dislike his own neighbors are trying to square this circle.

This is just silly. No one - except the residents of UT/CB - opposes actual traffic calming measures such as speed bumps, narrowing of the road through putting in sidewalks, and a one way designation. What people are frustrated by is that a handful of extremely rich people are opposing these standard responses to traffic safety issues and instead asking the city to give them a private street so that they can be free of the crazy driving the rest of us have to deal with. It’s not the proposal of traffic calming measures that have upset people; it’s DDOT’s strange eschewing of them in this case. This whole episode stinks to high heaven.

LOL. No one is basically everyone except you and your fellow progressive urbanists*, who turn out to occupy a lot of space on social media but very little out of it.

Find a better way to spend your day troll. Your sh*t is worn and tiresome.