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You clearly have no understanding of Cleveland Park history.  In the 1960s white and black residents of Cleveland Park were teaming up with less affluent neighborhoods to stop a plan to hollow out D.C. with freeways.  Their slogan was "no to white men's freeways through black men's bedrooms."  Killing the D.C. Freeway project provided the infusion of funding for Metro.  But, oh, those Cleveland Park NIMBYs![/quote]

Well, it was two, now deceased attorneys who led the effort to stop the freeways that would have gone through Glover Park (270) to connect to the Three Sisters Bridge (66) and the one that would have gone across Rock Creek near Tilden. It was convenient that they connected with African-Americans from NE who wanted to stop the freeway that would have gone through Takoma and Brookline (95). But to say they teamed up in a proactive manner overstates the condition, dramatically. And it was "No White Man's Road's Through Black Man's Homes" - there weren't too many black man's homes in Cleveland Park back then - I can think of two. [/quote]

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