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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fabulous, so our traffic calming tactics are finally working on OP.

Honestly, Wisconsin is better than Reno. I live on Reno and I use Wisconsin Ave. because at every hour traffic moves better there.

The thing is, OP and especially clueless 10:01, Reno is a residential road, and there are students crossing it to get to approximately 25 different schools from nursery to college, and to access more than a dozen parks, playgrounds, and trails. Many have been hit by commuters. There are have been far too many car accidents and car versus bike accidents.  You call it unnecessary, but people who live here know that the danger has been unacceptable for some time now and is increasing.[/quote]

+1. Take the metro OP. Reno is a residential road. Wisconsin and Connecticut are also residential roads that have students, locals, etc crossing them daily so please SLOW DOWN and stop treating DC streets like race tracks. [/quote]

This NIMBY attitude reminds me of those naysayers who don't want a pool built at Hearst because it might disturb the tranquility of "their" neighborhood park.  Reno isn't some private road in a gated community.  It's a major arterial that already carries a lot of traffic and needs to be upgraded.   Yesterday, in fact.  Reno belongs to all of us, not to a few.  There's more traffic and we need more road capacity, and if serving the greater public interest means that D.C. needs to widen your "residential road," then I'm sorry.  You don't get a greater say because you live there.  D.C. Is One City.  And you can always move. [/quote]

I am the PP and I actually live nowhere near Reno Road; I live elsewhere in DC.  So this is not a NIMBY thing.  Additionally, I clearly  included students in my original post as users that I think should be protected, many of whom do not live in the neighborhood.  I do not think that the solution to more traffic is to widen roads.  If you widen roads then you have to take away land from another stakeholder- pedestrians, residents, etc.  As a person who does sometimes drive on Reno, I would prefer that residents retain thier lawns as I get more value out of seeing green space and well maintained houses then I do out of being able to get to my destination five minutes faster.

And yes, I agree that DC in One City- which is why I am defending a neighborhood that I have very little stake in as I believe that transit besides cars has been prioritized for far too long and contributes to a car-centric culture in this city.  If the culture is changed so that people do not think that the have a right to speed through the city, and alternative modes of transportation are encouraged and invested in, then I believe this will trickle down and benefit the city as a whole.  I do not think that there should be any roads in DC (besides 395/695 etc) that drivers feel the right to speed on, including Connecticut Ave, Wisconsin Ave, NY Ave.  I think that these roads belong to all users, including pedestrians, drivers, bikers, buses, and scooters and that the culture of cars taking them over is something that will be looked back on in 100 years as antiquated.

Thankfully, there are others that agree with me- see, e.g. the recent widening of the sidewalks in Georgetown shows a step in the right direction towards acknowledging that pedestrians are roadusers, too. [/quote]

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