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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting.

DDOT said the configuration:

-will not impede emergency vehicles
-will not be an issue as an evacuation route
-will not impact "cut through" traffic

So basically everything the project opponents claimed was a lie. They just didn't want bike lanes, even if the proposed solution is worse, which it is.

I guess that is a win?[/quote]

Did anyone ever think this was about anything other than parking?

Hell hath no fury quite like an Upper NW boomer threatened with the loss of his parking space.

Or, as Mary Cheh was fond of saying, all politics are local and all local politics is parking.

They kept their parking spaces so, yes, for them it’s a win.[/quote]

[b]Connecticut Ave will go on a road diet, just not with bike lanes.[/b]  Curb extensions will reduce the distance that pedestrians, particularly elderly residents and kids, need to cross at certain intersections.  So Connecticut will be safer, which was what Safer Connecticut Avenue wanted.  DDOT seems to be leaning to another north-south bike lane route, like Reno Road.  [/quote]

What will occupy the new, leftover space? Car parking instead of bike lanes?[/quote]

Yup[/quote]

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