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

[Anonymous]

This will be fun! Streisand effect for sure

[Anonymous]

What does a no through traffic sign really mean? It’s not like anyone is going to enforce it.

[Anonymous]

Rich white people who want special privileges to preserve their house values, and to heck with the families of blacks interred in the cemetery there. So what else is new?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CBR is absolutely a rush hour cut through. Waze sometimes directs me there. It’s narrow with a bunch of blind corners. I feel unsafe driving there.

Then don't drive there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does a no through traffic sign really mean? It’s not like anyone is going to enforce it.

I once drove down a street in CCDC with a “local traffic only” sign and one of those barricades. A guy in front of his house yelled at me. I just smiled at him. It’s not legally enforceable, only a suggestion.

[Anonymous]

I mean, given it’s bold letters all the way, it’s fair game to repost from the local listserve, no? Apparently, the safety issue is of critical importance to this 20+ resident so the traffic should go to the neighborhood, and why not, he says?

“Safety has been and continues to be an urgent problem on Chain Bridge Road and University Terrace due to the vlume and speed of traffic on these two streets and their unique configurations - narrow streets, with blind curves and steep hills.

It its NOi, DDOT has determined, at a minimum, that traffic signage is needed to alleviate the volume of traffic on these two residential streets. The volume should be diverted to the major arteries of Arizona Ave, Lougboror Rd, Foxhall Rd. There is also a separate problem with traffic calming on these streets to reduce the spped at which cars round the various blind curves on both streets. Traffic calming around these curves alas, has not been properly addressed by DDOT in its NOi or otherwise.

I, and based on conversations with my neighbors, would accept rush hour No Thru or Do Not Enter signage "with Local Only exceptions" to alleviate the traffic volume on our streets. It is my understanding that per DC regs, that "Local Only" applies for at least two blocks from the signs, which is sufficent for our purposes. Access to the park and homes would not be blocked by No Thru / Local Only. Similar protections has been granted to other streets in the Palisades, e.g., in Kent Corner, as well as in Wesley Heights, AU Park, and Spring Valley.

We previously advocated reduction of the speed limit from 25 mph to 20 mph as in Kent Conrer. It took DDOT almost a year to reudce the speed limit on UT. However, despite these speed signs, traffic continues to speed around the blind curves.

Over many years, the ANC Transport Committee has had ample opportunity to weigh in with advice and questions, and should not attempt now to block the community-supported solution adopted by DDOT.”

Safety on Chain Bridge is the top DC concern. Pray do tell the folks in SE NE SW, thank you.

[Anonymous]

Given how urgent this problem is, can we please mount an urgent do please just shut up response?

[Anonymous]

DDOT has determined BUT cannot find the original request or requestor whom people believe to be a multimillionaire plus Cheh. Matt Frumin; don’t you dare!

[Anonymous]

Also please the visitors to the Black cemetery, because unless you live within 2 block, you walk. Money talks.

Palisades you are disgusting, unless it’s the plane noise that accounts for the brain damage on this one.

[Anonymous]

I will not only keep driving but up my frequenting a lot, call the police! I would LOVE more attention on your taxpayer funded street privatization. Call me Guido from the bridge, I’ve never been so disgusted by the people I call my neighbors

[Anonymous]

And more crap from the Palisades NIMBYs:

“It no thru traffic with local traffic only at issue. To answer your question see below.


Local access street – a street or portion of a street designated for access only to drivers of vehicles whose destination or origin is on or within two (2) blocks of such street or portion of the street.
http://dcrules.elaws.us/dcmr/18-9901”

Can we please send a clear and resounding heck no!

[Anonymous]

You go girl!

“am sympathetic to the idea of a quiet street becoming a thoroughfare. It is frustrating to purchase a house you believe will be quiet, and then it's not. (I type as a plane flies overhead.) But unless you live in a gated community, streets are not meant for their residents alone.
For five years, my children went to Key School, and University Terr was a critical part of my commute to work after dropping them off.
When they left Key, we started carpooling with another Palisades family to take our kids to school across town. Our route: up Chain Bridge Road from MacArthur to Nebraska. The travel was in reverse in the afternoons, in both cases.
I pay my DC taxes, and I am entitled to (safely) drive on any city street - not just those deemed commuter corridors, or that on which I live, or that whose residents deem me acceptable.
I am a huge proponent of traffic calming measures (speed bumps were installed on my street during COVID and I could not have been more thrilled.) I am also happy to see rigorous enforcement of speed limits and other safety measures. If the free flow of traffic is an issue, I am OK with signs like "no left turns from 7-9 AM."
But if I am understanding my Univ. Terr neighbor correctly, the free flow of traffic is the problem, not the solution. To block a street for most of us, even for the safety of a few of us, is incongruous with the idea of living in a city.
(I find it ironic that the same poster who is complaining about cars is also documenting woes with scooters and bicycles on the streets. Did I miss the memo on when jetpacks were being distributed?)”

[Anonymous]

Gross. Matt Frumin, if you let this happen, you are out, guaranteed

“I live on University and walk dogs routinely. Cars with Virginia and Md plates routinely speed in the street, ignoring parked on both sides, pedestrians and the blind curve. They race through attempting to avoid the stop sign and are often on their phones, not looking who is in front of them. Speed cameras haven’t stopped them. We all complain and whenever a solution is proposed, people fight it. Nothing ever changes. Rain water continues to rush down the street and erode the concrete. I had to install a speed bump at my drive to direct chain bridge runoff from flooding my neighbor. Try going over a big bump every time you come into or leave your house. If you don’t live on the street and see the impact daily, not sure you can comment about your inconvenience. This is about safety. Speeding cars, no sidewalks, no action,


It’s like a big tobacco lobbyist strategy.. just keep the stays quo so no one does anything.”

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile the residents on Chain Bridge are in fact parked illegally, and what do we even call Black descendants not being able to visit the cemetery?

Immoral! And should be illegal. No, you don’t get the private street, and if you do by hook and crook, no one will respect it, please call 9-1, we can’t wait! Get you on the news

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gross. Matt Frumin, if you let this happen, you are out, guaranteed

“I live on University and walk dogs routinely. Cars with Virginia and Md plates routinely speed in the street, ignoring parked on both sides, pedestrians and the blind curve. They race through attempting to avoid the stop sign and are often on their phones, not looking who is in front of them. Speed cameras haven’t stopped them. We all complain and whenever a solution is proposed, people fight it. Nothing ever changes. Rain water continues to rush down the street and erode the concrete. I had to install a speed bump at my drive to direct chain bridge runoff from flooding my neighbor. Try going over a big bump every time you come into or leave your house. If you don’t live on the street and see the impact daily, not sure you can comment about your inconvenience. This is about safety. Speeding cars, no sidewalks, no action,


It’s like a big tobacco lobbyist strategy.. just keep the stays quo so no one does anything.”

BTW, total bull. Have never in many years there seen anyone going over 20 mph