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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. The term actually is “ streatery “ per DC government ( do a little research )  but either way spelling it correctly or not hardly rises to the level of “ sick”.

While one certainly need not wait for a crash to be “fatal” for a risk to be considered significant,  or even discussed, in the case of Chevy Chase DC yes there was a fatal crash on a sidewalk cafe at the Parthenon. While not technically a streatery the wake up call at the sidewalk cafe was felt by all.

If streateries were universally safe to be in rush hour traffic lanes then the city would be authorizing them but in fact they aren’t. That’s the point. And that’s one reason the neighborhood has been alarmed. [/quote]

The problem is that businesses sprouted up on CT back when car traffic was lower volume and much slower. Now CT is trying to be a through-road to downtown while also being a local main-street, and its doing neither well. It needs to pick one or the other, and move the other function somewhere else. [/quote]

This is delusionally bad history.[/quote]

Ok, I'll bite. When were the majority of commercial buildings built on CT ave? What was traffic like in those days? When did people start moving to Montgomery and commuting down to DC?[/quote]

Upper NW was a commuting suburb from the very beginning.  The early MoCo suburbs predated upper NW and the rest were developed around the same time.  Traffic has always been heavy on Connecticut and it has always been a major through road to downtown.

Nebraska is where the traffic growth has been and that has been caused by more people heading west from EOTP.[/quote]

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