New River Campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No seriously, there is a private community center in Cleveleand Park I believe, as well as the Rosedale Conservatory. Why is AU Park bickering about the River Sschool + traffic instead of galvanizing to buy and conserve that piece of property in its natural "green lung" state? Between AU construction and the Fannie Mae development, a LOT of concrete has been laid in that corridor in a few short years. Why not an awesome community park/playgroung/dog run concervatory? Obviously open to the public.

Great idea.Can you lead it? We would love it but that take a huge amount of time and effort and lots of money. While some people live in good sized houses near that area, many do not and many can't afford to donate money to things like this even if they want to.

[Anonymous]

I don't get the NIMBYism. It's a school they're proposing to put there, not a strip club or casino!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The want to expand the school to 350 kids (expanding to add through sixth grade), day care center and health clinic open to the public. The issue in the neighborhood is not the mission of the school it is that there are already 12+ schools, the department of homeland security and the new buildings at the old Fannie Mae site that are already causing huge amounts of traffic in an area that already has dangerous traffic. They are under contract to purchase TTR old Buchanan estate which is on the corner of Nebraska, 42nd and Van Ness. With 350 kids, 90 faculty, many more staff, patients to the clinic, families of the infants and staff at the health clinic that will add more than 500 cars to the residential part of tenleytown.

Thanks for the NIMBY fear-mongering.

It would be a great addition to the neighborhood, more families would have more walkable and bikable options for their kids.

Yeah, rich people. Why not send your kids to the walkable awesome public schools already in the area or help find new locations for public schools in the district to reduce overcrowding so people who can't afford private schools have the same opportunities and that we all pay massive amounts of taxes to support?

Exactly. Help use your resources to get these public school kids back in school? Help DC purchase another location to reduce the over crowding. What, you can't pony up the cash to buy the old GDS lower school properly so now you need to bully the public school kids where they live?

[Anonymous]

That’s a weird take.

[Anonymous]

What’s getting me is how they’ve kept all this so quiet. I live nearby and didn’t know anything about this until yesterday. My immediate neighbors were also in the dark. We’ve all been here a long time...double the traffic on our residential street is not trivial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ With all the traffic slowness it will be safe to cross Nebraska!

(And there is a light/crosswalk at Van Ness.)

Okay, no. I work in the area, and I hate that intersection of Nebraska/Van Ness near that weird side street, 41st. I have witnessed many near misses due to the congestion already present (parked cars, many walkers/bikes, many carpoolers). I can't imagine that adding cars and people to the situation will help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the NIMBYism. It's a school they're proposing to put there, not a strip club or casino!

How many new schools in a zoned residential area is reasonable? 1? 5? 20? 100? NIMBYism is an idiotic word to use here and just demonstrates that your mind is not sharp enough to actually make a good argument. They are seeking a zoning variance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^ With all the traffic slowness it will be safe to cross Nebraska!

(And there is a light/crosswalk at Van Ness.)

Okay, no. I work in the area, and I hate that intersection of Nebraska/Van Ness near that weird side street, 41st. I have witnessed many near misses due to the congestion already present (parked cars, many walkers/bikes, many carpoolers). I can't imagine that adding cars and people to the situation will help.

If the traffic is slow because of all the congestion, then it is safer for peds and bikers. It can't be both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the NIMBYism. It's a school they're proposing to put there, not a strip club or casino!

How many new schools in a zoned residential area is reasonable? 1? 5? 20? 100? NIMBYism is an idiotic word to use here and just demonstrates that your mind is not sharp enough to actually make a good argument. They are seeking a zoning variance.

It frees up the overcrowding at Janney. Problem solved!

[Anonymous]

It is not a good idea for the region to have so many schools concentrated in one neighborhood. For any folks who live far away from Tenley town, now there are more and more schools to cross off the list. Ideally you want schools scattered in different locations so more people have access

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ With all the traffic slowness it will be safe to cross Nebraska!

(And there is a light/crosswalk at Van Ness.)

Okay, no. I work in the area, and I hate that intersection of Nebraska/Van Ness near that weird side street, 41st. I have witnessed many near misses due to the congestion already present (parked cars, many walkers/bikes, many carpoolers). I can't imagine that adding cars and people to the situation will help.

If the traffic is slow because of all the congestion, then it is safer for peds and bikers. It can't be both.

That’s actually not true. Mid-day bottlenecks at a specific choke point lead to accidents from cars that 1) don’t slow down quickly enough as they come upon the bottleneck, and 2) drive aggressively to get around the bottleneck. Cars that aggressively change lanes to get out of stopped traffic are more dangerous for pedestrians, bikers, and the oncoming traffic in the lane the car is trying to merge into.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ With all the traffic slowness it will be safe to cross Nebraska!

(And there is a light/crosswalk at Van Ness.)

Okay, no. I work in the area, and I hate that intersection of Nebraska/Van Ness near that weird side street, 41st. I have witnessed many near misses due to the congestion already present (parked cars, many walkers/bikes, many carpoolers). I can't imagine that adding cars and people to the situation will help.

If the traffic is slow because of all the congestion, then it is safer for peds and bikers. It can't be both.

You cannot be serious. Because the people stuck in the congestion are totally calm and collected after being stuck there and totally inconvenienced, right? They don't speed away when it is time to go? Or try and make a quick cut when something frees up? Or maybe when they are cutting away they don't see that walking pedestrian or biker trying to cross the road in your sacred cross walk? Sure you don't care now until it is YOUR loved one that gets hurt or in an accident. Selfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get the NIMBYism. It's a school they're proposing to put there, not a strip club or casino!

How many new schools in a zoned residential area is reasonable? 1? 5? 20? 100? NIMBYism is an idiotic word to use here and just demonstrates that your mind is not sharp enough to actually make a good argument. They are seeking a zoning variance.

It frees up the overcrowding at Janney. Problem solved!

Let's start with your house and RESIDENTIAL lot - where ya at? You don't realllllly need your house, do ya? Nah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ With all the traffic slowness it will be safe to cross Nebraska!

(And there is a light/crosswalk at Van Ness.)

Okay, no. I work in the area, and I hate that intersection of Nebraska/Van Ness near that weird side street, 41st. I have witnessed many near misses due to the congestion already present (parked cars, many walkers/bikes, many carpoolers). I can't imagine that adding cars and people to the situation will help.

If the traffic is slow because of all the congestion, then it is safer for peds and bikers. It can't be both.

You cannot be serious. Because the people stuck in the congestion are totally calm and collected after being stuck there and totally inconvenienced, right? They don't speed away when it is time to go? Or try and make a quick cut when something frees up? Or maybe when they are cutting away they don't see that walking pedestrian or biker trying to cross the road in your sacred cross walk? Sure you don't care now until it is YOUR loved one that gets hurt or in an accident. Selfish.

Like water, traffic will find a way. Those drivers will seek a bail out route through the neighborhood. This will be due to River School congestion but River won’t be able to police random drivers. This will put more cars on neighborhood streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ With all the traffic slowness it will be safe to cross Nebraska!

(And there is a light/crosswalk at Van Ness.)

Okay, no. I work in the area, and I hate that intersection of Nebraska/Van Ness near that weird side street, 41st. I have witnessed many near misses due to the congestion already present (parked cars, many walkers/bikes, many carpoolers). I can't imagine that adding cars and people to the situation will help.

If the traffic is slow because of all the congestion, then it is safer for peds and bikers. It can't be both.

You cannot be serious. Because the people stuck in the congestion are totally calm and collected after being stuck there and totally inconvenienced, right? They don't speed away when it is time to go? Or try and make a quick cut when something frees up? Or maybe when they are cutting away they don't see that walking pedestrian or biker trying to cross the road in your sacred cross walk? Sure you don't care now until it is YOUR loved one that gets hurt or in an accident. Selfish.

Yes, selfish. Those people clearly don't have the temperment to safely operate a vehicle.