Exclusive "Klingle Valley" trail opens, victory for NIMBYs. Sad.

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Anonymous wrote:WTF OP?? This road has been closed to traffic for nearly 30 years.

The NIMBYs play a long game, and finally have achieved their objective of foreclosing this part of Cleveland/Woodley Park to density, urbanism and more diversity.

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DC is full of roads. There are far fewer trails. I cycle to work, and it is nice to have another place that isn't about cars.

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Anonymous wrote:WTF OP?? This road has been closed to traffic for nearly 30 years.

The NIMBYs play a long game, and finally have achieved their objective of foreclosing this part of Cleveland/Woodley Park to density, urbanism and more diversity.

It would have been a few TH's at most. Compared to the value of a quality MUT for urbanism, and the expense for redoing it as a road seems a fair tradeoff. If you are really concerned about urbanism, there are plenty of more egregious examples of NIMBYISM in DC.

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It would have been 5-6 houses at most, down from 172 townhouses that were proposed in the late 1970's.

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I wonder if it will become a homeless encampment? Seems a pleasant spot...

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Anonymous wrote:DC is full of roads. There are far fewer trails. I cycle to work, and it is nice to have another place that isn't about cars.

Nice try. But who the heck commutes east/west across the park to go to work? Very few. If you do, that probably represents 1% of your commute.

Most commuters go downtown; you need north/south cycling path.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if it will become a homeless encampment? Seems a pleasant spot...

The frequent walker, bike and especially dog traffic will discourage that.

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All they wanted was a better life for their kids! Now, without this road the most the kids east of the park can aspire to is becoming wank-booth cleaners in some Russian oligarch's mansion when they grow up. Sad!

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Anonymous wrote:All they wanted was a better life for their kids! Now, without this road the most the kids east of the park can aspire to is becoming wank-booth cleaners in some Russian oligarch's mansion when they grow up. Sad!

More likely, their parents will have to spend 5 more minutes driving them each morning from Mt. Pleasant to Maret.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree OP - and those protesting the Purple Line in Chevy Chase are doing the same thing. This was truly a case of the rich and connected making sure the undesirables lose access - and to insure that their leaf green neighborhood was sure to be priced even further out of reach. The repair would have been costly to do (but not unprecedented) but as OP mentioned - the wealthy enclave blocked the growth of the tax base, the opportunity lost (for those who relied on the access - not to mention keeping traffic) - and it was all disguised as some kind of do good environmentalism. I know its is long ago but I so remember that when this happened. Classic NIMBY that so many who live there would call out in other neighborhoods as racist, punishing poor, etc. DC truly has so much green space and the traffic this denial of access causes is classic haves/have not. The self satisfaction of those touting this new park is nauseating

There's a big difference between turning a road into open space open to the public, and protesting public transportation.

A road is public transportation.

[b]DC truly has so much green space [b] whereas CHEVY CHASE and DOWNTOWN BETHESDA DO NOT have nearly enough green space. If you haven't been to downtown Bethesda lately, or the areas surrounding it, you'll be shocked by all the construction.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if it will become a homeless encampment? Seems a pleasant spot...

The frequent walker, bike and especially dog traffic will discourage that.

Does not stop people from camping out on Wisconsin

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[b]DC truly has so much green space [b] whereas CHEVY CHASE and DOWNTOWN BETHESDA DO NOT have nearly enough green space. If you haven't been to downtown Bethesda lately, or the areas surrounding it, you'll be shocked by all the construction.

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You are camparing downtown Bethesda to an edge of Rock Creek Park? Apples, meet oranges.

And Chevy Chase, what DC? Hasn't changed in decades and still abuts Rock Creek. Chevy Chase Maryland has what exactly, to do with Kilingle Road???

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Anonymous wrote:I put this nonsense directly at the feet of trump.

Total covfefe.

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I don't understand why it doesn't dump you out in an area where you can get coffee with a friend or something? It would be lovely to walk with a friend and then get a coffee. Instead you end up back on the same sleepy street? Almost seems as if the neighbors want it that way. Why not put a locked gate on it, give them the key and call it a British mews in that case?

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Anonymous wrote:All they wanted was a better life for their kids! Now, without this road the most the kids east of the park can aspire to is becoming wank-booth cleaners in some Russian oligarch's mansion when they grow up. Sad!

Meh, under this administration, the presence of lack of a trail wouldn't prevent that.