I'm so over Reno

[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.

No, you are misrepresenting GGWs position on the comprehensive plan.

Obviously HP limits urban change - but it should not prevent all new housing supply, with consequences for housing affordability.

Meanwhle you seem to want to reduce housing, for the benefit of commuters who do not even live in District.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

A better priority would be a Wisconsin Avenue street car. There isn't one example of road expansion that successfully reduces single occupancy car congestion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Building more or wider roads to accommodate more cars does nothing but degrade the quality of life for all involved. There has been a lot write about this, from air quality, noise, and aesthetic to pedestrian safety, there really isn't one metric that supports what you propose is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

There is already gridlock on Wisconsin Ave. Maybe the solution is to figure out how to ration the precious road space to more efficiently move people, other than single occupancy vehicles?

[Anonymous]

We just made the decision to become a singe vehicle household. Four person household: one (10) will walk exclusively; one (13) will mostly walk and take the 30 bus to an after school activity, one adult will telecommute and uber/pub.trans. when needed, and the other adult will metro most of the time, uber when needed. The car will be used to get places that public transportation and uber are not cost/time efficient, like doctors, suburban clients, travel, big grocery runs, far out sports events, weekend treks to the burbs.

One more car off the road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We just made the decision to become a singe vehicle household. Four person household: one (10) will walk exclusively; one (13) will mostly walk and take the 30 bus to an after school activity, one adult will telecommute and uber/pub.trans. when needed, and the other adult will metro most of the time, uber when needed. The car will be used to get places that public transportation and uber are not cost/time efficient, like doctors, suburban clients, travel, big grocery runs, far out sports events, weekend treks to the burbs.

One more car off the road.

When our kids were old enough, this is what we did and where we are, though it is mostly walking/biking and metro to work. Car is mostly just used on weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

If it took 20 years to get Cathedral Commons built, it will take 100 to get Reno Road widened. By then we'll have flying cars like the Jetsons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

If it took 20 years to get Cathedral Commons built, it will take 100 to get Reno Road widened. By then we'll have flying cars like the Jetsons.

A widened Reno might turn out even uglier than Cathedral Commons, which is a troubling thought. CC is only a couple of years old, but is not aging well. It looks like they used cheaper materials compared to other recent developments in the area, like the Park Van Ness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

There is already gridlock on Wisconsin Ave. Maybe the solution is to figure out how to ration the precious road space to more efficiently move people, other than single occupancy vehicles?

Yup - Wisconsin mostly works just fine even during rush hour but some creativity with trading parking for turn lanes to keep traffic flowing and also maybe adding bus lanes. In the short term DC needs to just aggressively enforce the rush hour parking restrictions which would help a great deal. The hypocritical but not funny thing is it is always MD drivers parking illegally who block other MD drivers and then they of course start laying on the horn because MD drivers are collectively a bunch of stupid and entitled idiots as evidenced by this thread where they want DC residents to change their city to accommodate their poor lifestyle choices.

But really I don't car - MD drivers can choke on their own traffic as far as I'm concerned - I'll be comfortably home before you even get to 270 and doing the dishes before you get to Germantown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

There is already gridlock on Wisconsin Ave. Maybe the solution is to figure out how to ration the precious road space to more efficiently move people, other than single occupancy vehicles?

Yup - Wisconsin mostly works just fine even during rush hour but some creativity with trading parking for turn lanes to keep traffic flowing and also maybe adding bus lanes. In the short term DC needs to just aggressively enforce the rush hour parking restrictions which would help a great deal. The hypocritical but not funny thing is it is always MD drivers parking illegally who block other MD drivers and then they of course start laying on the horn because MD drivers are collectively a bunch of stupid and entitled idiots as evidenced by this thread where they want DC residents to change their city to accommodate their poor lifestyle choices.

But really I don't car - MD drivers can choke on their own traffic as far as I'm concerned - I'll be comfortably home before you even get to 270 and doing the dishes before you get to Germantown.

I agree with some of your observations on Maryland drivers, but not your assumption that Marylanders are the only self-entitled ones driving on DC streets. I've seen plenty of aggressive driving on Reno Rd by cars with DC plates, including by those who use the endless turn lane as a passing lane to bypass slow or stopped traffic! It's a particularly charming habit in the vicinity of schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

There is already gridlock on Wisconsin Ave. Maybe the solution is to figure out how to ration the precious road space to more efficiently move people, other than single occupancy vehicles?

Yup - Wisconsin mostly works just fine even during rush hour but some creativity with trading parking for turn lanes to keep traffic flowing and also maybe adding bus lanes. In the short term DC needs to just aggressively enforce the rush hour parking restrictions which would help a great deal. The hypocritical but not funny thing is it is always MD drivers parking illegally who block other MD drivers and then they of course start laying on the horn because MD drivers are collectively a bunch of stupid and entitled idiots as evidenced by this thread where they want DC residents to change their city to accommodate their poor lifestyle choices.

But really I don't car - MD drivers can choke on their own traffic as far as I'm concerned - I'll be comfortably home before you even get to 270 and doing the dishes before you get to Germantown.

I agree with some of your observations on Maryland drivers, but not your assumption that Marylanders are the only self-entitled ones driving on DC streets. I've seen plenty of aggressive driving on Reno Rd by cars with DC plates, including by those who use the endless turn lane as a passing lane to bypass slow or stopped traffic! It's a particularly charming habit in the vicinity of schools.

The "Maryland driver" joke last was funny like 10 years ago, before the dimwit Popville commenters discovered it and ran it into the ground. They still use it to this day and think it's the height of hip DC humor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

There is already gridlock on Wisconsin Ave. Maybe the solution is to figure out how to ration the precious road space to more efficiently move people, other than single occupancy vehicles?

Yup - Wisconsin mostly works just fine even during rush hour but some creativity with trading parking for turn lanes to keep traffic flowing and also maybe adding bus lanes. In the short term DC needs to just aggressively enforce the rush hour parking restrictions which would help a great deal. The hypocritical but not funny thing is it is always MD drivers parking illegally who block other MD drivers and then they of course start laying on the horn because MD drivers are collectively a bunch of stupid and entitled idiots as evidenced by this thread where they want DC residents to change their city to accommodate their poor lifestyle choices.

But really I don't car - MD drivers can choke on their own traffic as far as I'm concerned - I'll be comfortably home before you even get to 270 and doing the dishes before you get to Germantown.

I agree with some of your observations on Maryland drivers, but not your assumption that Marylanders are the only self-entitled ones driving on DC streets. I've seen plenty of aggressive driving on Reno Rd by cars with DC plates, including by those who use the endless turn lane as a passing lane to bypass slow or stopped traffic! It's a particularly charming habit in the vicinity of schools.

The "Maryland driver" joke last was funny like 10 years ago, before the dimwit Popville commenters discovered it and ran it into the ground. They still use it to this day and think it's the height of hip DC humor.

Popville can be kind of douchey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It's not.

Then prepare for more and more gridlock on Wisconsin Avenue.

There is already gridlock on Wisconsin Ave. Maybe the solution is to figure out how to ration the precious road space to more efficiently move people, other than single occupancy vehicles?

Yup - Wisconsin mostly works just fine even during rush hour but some creativity with trading parking for turn lanes to keep traffic flowing and also maybe adding bus lanes. In the short term DC needs to just aggressively enforce the rush hour parking restrictions which would help a great deal. The hypocritical but not funny thing is it is always MD drivers parking illegally who block other MD drivers and then they of course start laying on the horn because MD drivers are collectively a bunch of stupid and entitled idiots as evidenced by this thread where they want DC residents to change their city to accommodate their poor lifestyle choices.

But really I don't car - MD drivers can choke on their own traffic as far as I'm concerned - I'll be comfortably home before you even get to 270 and doing the dishes before you get to Germantown.

I agree with some of your observations on Maryland drivers, but not your assumption that Marylanders are the only self-entitled ones driving on DC streets. I've seen plenty of aggressive driving on Reno Rd by cars with DC plates, including by those who use the endless turn lane as a passing lane to bypass slow or stopped traffic! It's a particularly charming habit in the vicinity of schools.

The "Maryland driver" joke last was funny like 10 years ago, before the dimwit Popville commenters discovered it and ran it into the ground. They still use it to this day and think it's the height of hip DC humor.

No one in DC thinks it is a joke or funny - mostly we are concerned about our kids getting killed by a stressed out commuter with their nose in their phone as they roll through stop signs on residential side streets. Unfortunately most MD drivers lack class or self awareness so we have to come on here and explain to you that your driving is neither funny nor legal nor ok.