Kids walk to two schools along Macomb St, with several more within a few blocks of Macomb. As for preventing a drastic increase in cars on the side streets, commuter traffic is supposed to go on the principal arterial Connecticut Ave - not to cut through narrow side streets. But Option C moves car traffic off of the arterial onto the lesser streets. From traffic planning and safety standpoints, that’s nuts. |
Somehow “extremist” is not a term that one usually associates with historic preservation. Absolutist property rights Libertarianism, more likely. |
No, but if the traffic is all moving at a safe, slow speed, then the increased traffic volume is not a problem for the pedestrians or bike riders. |
"cut through" ius like if someone drives through a farm or back yard,. A city street is a city street meant to be used by the public for mobility. If you don't want people on your street, move to a farm or a cul de sac. |
It is a major problem for emergency vehicles. Which is why our neighbors successfully fought against them. |
Speed humps are meant to control speed - that is the thing that causes most injury. Control the speed and all of the sudden, the street is much safer, thus addressing the concern you epxres about people riding bikes and walking to schools. Increased traffic is a result of higehr population and more people owning and operating cars. Unless population shrinks, there will be more cars and thus more traffic. There is no cutting that. What we can do is encourage people to use other modes of transportation, like biking, if we can make it safe and accessible, like protected bike lanes. But nothing will address the increase in population and follow on increase in number of cars using the roads. |
Almost every street in Cleveland Park has speed humps now. The emergency personnel are no longer opposing these in residential areas. |
The traffic projections do not support this argument. And nothing does, except your opinion. The willingness of certain NIMBYs to misrepresent basic facts in support of arguments against infrastructure that will make cycling safer in DC is nothing short of sickening. |
The traffic projections are bunk. They are pre pandemic. Transit ridership is now under 50% of pre COVID levels. We need updated data. This is ready, fire, aim. |
The fact that there are fewer people driving into DC than before hardly supports the argument that the spillover will be worse than it would have been pre-COVID. |
Making cycling safer is a good thing. Making it less safe on residential cross streets like Porter and Macomb is not good. |
Yes, you are right. The drivers are the problem. Drivers who speed down residential streets. Drivers who don’t pull over for emergency vehicles. Drivers who don’t obey the traffic laws. So we have speed bumps and bump outs to control the drivers who just can’t help themselves. We support the CT Ave proposal and will be requesting speed bumps on our street next year. |
What about no through traffic/local traffic only restrictions with enforcement teeth like ticketing? |
Well I hope you’ll volunteer to have the bump installed in front of your house and enjoy the nightly concert of squeaking breaks, accelerating engines, and loss of parking. |
I live on one of those roads so yes - I am familiar - but they will get considerably worse as the traffic forced off CT Ave diverts to these streets which are not meant for that level of traffic - narrower side walks than Conn Ave, cross walks and stop signs instead of lights, etc... |