I'm so over Reno

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Anonymous wrote:I just want them to fix the gd potholes. Lost a hubcap the other day

The one by Murch is astounding.

Part of our traffic calming. We go out at night and make it bigger.

You're welcome.

Haha. Thanks for doing your part!

And I express my distaste for these folks by tossing all my litter out there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just want them to fix the gd potholes. Lost a hubcap the other day

The one by Murch is astounding.

Part of our traffic calming. We go out at night and make it bigger.

You're welcome.

Haha. Thanks for doing your part!

And I express my distaste for these folks by tossing all my litter out there.

So, you're throwing trash from your car along 34th and Reno to punish the people who live there and the school kids who walk there?

Classy.

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Yep. Don't care.

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I agree that Reno should be widened to 4 lanes at least. Some of the little houses along the street aren't really worth saving (some barely have font yards as it is). D.C. could use eminent domain to upgrade this arterial.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just want them to fix the gd potholes. Lost a hubcap the other day

The one by Murch is astounding.

Part of our traffic calming. We go out at night and make it bigger.

You're welcome.

Haha. Thanks for doing your part!

And I express my distaste for these folks by tossing all my litter out there.

Is that you? Thank you!! My kids get volunteer hours cleaning up the neighborhood. My neighbor makes her kids do it for their punishment. Either way thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that Reno should be widened to 4 lanes at least. Some of the little houses along the street aren't really worth saving (some barely have font yards as it is). D.C. could use eminent domain to upgrade this arterial.

Good luck with that. From Rodman down to Woodley (I think that's the lower boundary) it's an historic district. Not to mention the embassy land by Tilden-Upton, the Melvin Hazen Trail part from Tilden to Rodman, Eaton school from Macomb to Lowell....yep, let's just destroy the neighborhood school so commuters have a bigger road! Then, below Eaton you have Beauvior land, St. Albans land, and more embassies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that Reno should be widened to 4 lanes at least. Some of the little houses along the street aren't really worth saving (some barely have font yards as it is). D.C. could use eminent domain to upgrade this arterial.

Good luck with that. From Rodman down to Woodley (I think that's the lower boundary) it's an historic district. Not to mention the embassy land by Tilden-Upton, the Melvin Hazen Trail part from Tilden to Rodman, Eaton school from Macomb to Lowell....yep, let's just destroy the neighborhood school so commuters have a bigger road! Then, below Eaton you have Beauvior land, St. Albans land, and more embassies.

Didn't I read that Greater Greater Washington is proposing comprehensive plan amendments to weaken historic district regulations, esp. in Cleveland Park/Woodley Park? Historic preservation shouldn't halt urban change.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree that Reno should be widened to 4 lanes at least. Some of the little houses along the street aren't really worth saving (some barely have font yards as it is). D.C. could use eminent domain to upgrade this arterial.

Good luck with that. From Rodman down to Woodley (I think that's the lower boundary) it's an historic district. Not to mention the embassy land by Tilden-Upton, the Melvin Hazen Trail part from Tilden to Rodman, Eaton school from Macomb to Lowell....yep, let's just destroy the neighborhood school so commuters have a bigger road! Then, below Eaton you have Beauvior land, St. Albans land, and more embassies.

Didn't I read that Greater Greater Washington is proposing comprehensive plan amendments to weaken historic district regulations, esp. in Cleveland Park/Woodley Park? Historic preservation shouldn't halt urban change.

Ok, fine forget historic preservation. You want to eminent domain St. Alban's and Beauvior? I can only imagine how long and costly that legal fight would be. We won't even talk about the embassies and the public school that serves the neighborhood. St. Alban's just finished a multi-year massive renovation of all the sports fields and complex that border 34th.

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Anonymous wrote:DDOT doesn't plan for Ordway and Newark to carry much through traffic between Wisconsin and Connecticut. That's why Ordway has the "calmed" intersection at Idaho to discourage through traffic and why Newark has the series of speed humps. Macomb and Porter are the designated collector/connector streets and thus have lights at all of the major intersections. Lowell St. has a light at 34th because of Eaton, but none at Wisconsin because it doesn't continue across Wisconsin and of course doesn't extend to Conn. Ave., so it's not a potential cut through route.

Ordway has been like that since at least the late 1960's.

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Anonymous wrote:DDOT doesn't plan for Ordway and Newark to carry much through traffic between Wisconsin and Connecticut. That's why Ordway has the "calmed" intersection at Idaho to discourage through traffic and why Newark has the series of speed humps. Macomb and Porter are the designated collector/connector streets and thus have lights at all of the major intersections. Lowell St. has a light at 34th because of Eaton, but none at Wisconsin because it doesn't continue across Wisconsin and of course doesn't extend to Conn. Ave., so it's not a potential cut through route.

Ordway has been like that since at least the late 1960's.

DC narrowed the intersection some more to discourage Ordway thru traffic when Cathedral Commons was built.

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Anonymous wrote:They should at least widen Reno to 4 travel lanes between Military and Porter. That would be so convenient. And get rid of those stupid speed bumps on Quebec St.

I hate the speed bumps on Newark St. Very unwelcoming.

+1. An accident closed part of Reno this evening, and the police were diverting traffic around on Newark to Woodley Rd. Just.Hate.Those.Speedbumps. You get the feeling that the neighborhood doesn't want people driving through.

Because they don't? The whole point of the speed bumps is to slow or deter traffic. Newark isn't meant to be a main artery, there are only lights to make turning on a major street not a hazard on Wisconsin. Coming from Wisconsin on Newark and trying to turn left onto 34th is an accident waiting to happen. And does happen, frequently. Hardly a day goes by that I don't see an accident on the 4 blocks of 34th I walk to get my kids to and from school.

ARGH!!!! Here comes my rant - talk about Nimbyism. Most of us live on residential streets that are often used as cut throughs for various traffic. What makes Newark & Quebec & Morison so special? I'm all for traffic calming - slowing things down - but in a city a grid works best to disperse traffic so that not one street is hit too hard. Do a light like the one on Porter which turns red if you go to fast, or the speed bumps on Chevy Chase Parkway are perfect - you can go the speed limit over them. Or park your cars on the street - that's what we do. Bumps? Selfish. And while we are talking about it - I hate all the one way streets up on Military!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They should at least widen Reno to 4 travel lanes between Military and Porter. That would be so convenient. And get rid of those stupid speed bumps on Quebec St.

I hate the speed bumps on Newark St. Very unwelcoming.

+1. An accident closed part of Reno this evening, and the police were diverting traffic around on Newark to Woodley Rd. Just.Hate.Those.Speedbumps. You get the feeling that the neighborhood doesn't want people driving through.

Because they don't? The whole point of the speed bumps is to slow or deter traffic. Newark isn't meant to be a main artery, there are only lights to make turning on a major street not a hazard on Wisconsin. Coming from Wisconsin on Newark and trying to turn left onto 34th is an accident waiting to happen. And does happen, frequently. Hardly a day goes by that I don't see an accident on the 4 blocks of 34th I walk to get my kids to and from school.

ARGH!!!! Here comes my rant - talk about Nimbyism. Most of us live on residential streets that are often used as cut throughs for various traffic. What makes Newark & Quebec & Morison so special? I'm all for traffic calming - slowing things down - but in a city a grid works best to disperse traffic so that not one street is hit too hard. Do a light like the one on Porter which turns red if you go to fast, or the speed bumps on Chevy Chase Parkway are perfect - you can go the speed limit over them. Or park your cars on the street - that's what we do. Bumps? Selfish. And while we are talking about it - I hate all the one way streets up on Military!

D.C. Doesn't have a grid system. It follows the US highway functional classification system. Some streets are designated arterials (ex., Connecticut), others collectors, to move traffic between local streets and arterials (ex., Porter), and still others are local streets, to carry cars to and from destinations on that street, but not traveling through. Morrison and Newark are examples of local streets. Usually only local streets are eligible for traffic calming.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should at least widen Reno to 4 travel lanes between Military and Porter. That would be so convenient. And get rid of those stupid speed bumps on Quebec St.

I hate the speed bumps on Newark St. Very unwelcoming.

+1. An accident closed part of Reno this evening, and the police were diverting traffic around on Newark to Woodley Rd. Just.Hate.Those.Speedbumps. You get the feeling that the neighborhood doesn't want people driving through.

Because they don't? The whole point of the speed bumps is to slow or deter traffic. Newark isn't meant to be a main artery, there are only lights to make turning on a major street not a hazard on Wisconsin. Coming from Wisconsin on Newark and trying to turn left onto 34th is an accident waiting to happen. And does happen, frequently. Hardly a day goes by that I don't see an accident on the 4 blocks of 34th I walk to get my kids to and from school.

ARGH!!!! Here comes my rant - talk about Nimbyism. Most of us live on residential streets that are often used as cut throughs for various traffic. What makes Newark & Quebec & Morison so special? I'm all for traffic calming - slowing things down - but in a city a grid works best to disperse traffic so that not one street is hit too hard. Do a light like the one on Porter which turns red if you go to fast, or the speed bumps on Chevy Chase Parkway are perfect - you can go the speed limit over them. Or park your cars on the street - that's what we do. Bumps? Selfish. And while we are talking about it - I hate all the one way streets up on Military!

I lived in Chevy Chase at the time the Morrison ones were put in. They were part of the ANC resolution that went with installing the traffic light at Connecticut Avenue. Here is the resolution: http://www.anc3g.org/archives/archived-meeting-minutes/2005-2/ See the June 27, 20015 meeting.

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D.C. Doesn't have a grid system. It follows the US highway functional classification system. Some streets are designated arterials (ex., Connecticut), others collectors, to move traffic between local streets and arterials (ex., Porter), and still others are local streets, to carry cars to and from destinations on that street, but not traveling through. Morrison and Newark are examples of local streets. Usually only local streets are eligible for traffic calming.

Useful info. Thanks, PP.

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Reno/34th in any case is considered an arterial corridor ('minor 'as opposed to 'major' like Connecticut). But with major arterial traffic growing (and future growth with Fannie Mae/Wegmans site redevelopment, 4000 Wisconsin, Cathedral Commons, Tenleytown mulitfamily projects, school campus enlargements, etc.), Wisconsin needs a reliever arterial. That's why widening and upgrading the Reno corridor should be a priority.