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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Between GDS and Sidwell expanded campuses, there is more traffic in the area.   Are these schools enforcing their commuting agreements?   DC can make a boat load by putting police to give out tickets as people cut through the AU Park neighborhood in the mornings - and enforce the no turn onto 42nd! [/quote]

Pssst...Sidwell hasn't expanded its campus [b]yet[/b] and today was the first day even a [b]decent percentage[/b] of the new GDS campus has been remotely utilized. IOW, any [b]uptick in traffic[/b] you might be seeing has nothing to do with either of those schools.[/quote]

There has been an "uptick" in traffic and you are right, it clearly is not Sidwell, [u]yet[/u]. GDS has caused the traffic to increase. I know the parents there do not want to believe it, but it is true.  If that beautiful new light would actually get turned ON that could possibly help? Please do not fool yourself and they neighborhood by pretending not to see the parents PARK their cars in the neighborhood and then "walk to school". [/quote]

Yes, like the way they block both lanes of traffic on 42nd street in front of the school like it’s a private driveway and not a public road. [/quote]

Which is especially ridiculous since the school petitioned DC to close the road and let them turn it into a private driveway, and the request was rejected.

The takeaway here should be that the DC schools and their parents rarely adhere to the traffic management plans they submit and agree to. And there's very little enforcement after the fact when it's violated.[/quote]

GDS parents are on 42nd St since they are not allowed to use Chesapeake.  Remember COVID, friends?  Children are not vaccinated. GDS buses are running at less than half capacity, carpools with other families are not an option (no way to distance) and most people are not comfortable with their unvaccinated children taking public transport.  So, yes, there are more cars than there would otherwise be since so families must now drive their kids.

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42nd St southbound is 2 lanes to allow traffic to flow while cars wait in whatever pick up /car pool line there is. So it’s just entitled families who can’t figure out how to keep their car in one lane that is the problem. [/quote]

42nd between Van Ness and Chesapeake is NOT two lanes going in each direction. One lane going in each direction with parked cars on either side which makes the road into one and a half lanes. No one is entitled here. We already have 12 schools and day care centers and a lot of people in giant SUVs who zoom around acting entitled when they drive their rich kids into a neighborhood they don't live in and don't care if it is unsafe for our kids but g-dforbid we drive like that  in their posh neighborhoods[/quote]

No! I am talking about 42nd st right from Wisconsin Ave in front of GDS. [/quote]

42d is now northbound only from Wisconsin to Davenport where it switches to one lane north and one lane south which continues to Nebraska. Right by the potential new location of the River School as a matter of fact. That should be fun. [/quote]

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