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[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]

Where would you move the “other function”?  Connecticut has been designated one of the “major arterial” roads for decades.  The only thing that might have changed that would have been if DC had built the freeway network through NW that was planned in the Fifties and Sixties.  Until that plan was shelved for good on the early 70s, the expectation was that the freeways would carry much commuter traffic between downtown, upper NW and the Montgomery County suburbs.  [/quote]

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