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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should at least widen Reno to 4 travel lanes between Military and Porter.  That would be so convenient.  And get rid of those stupid speed bumps on Quebec St.[/quote]

No to both. I live on Quebec. Put in more speed humps to deter cutting through. We have two schools on our road. There are tons of kids. Slow down. It's a residential street. [/quote]

Quebec is a necessary east-west connector from Reno to Wisconsin.  The parents at Hearst school use it twice a day and don't appreciate coffee spilling and car damage as we go over the humps.  The planned outdoor pool at Hearst will mean that more people will want to drive and park on Quebec.  The pool will be for the use of all D.C. residents, not just the select few.  This is a public right of way not a private road.[/quote]

I'm going to go ahead and laugh at this in the context of all the people in the pool thread proclaiming they want to walk to a pool at Hearst. [/quote]

Must be a different thread - can you link to it?  The Hearst thread lists the option of walking to the pool as just one of many good reasons for putting a pool there.   Just because you wouldn't walk there doesn't mean others won't.[/quote]

I'm not going to pull links to all the posts in the 200+ page thread where people dismiss concerns about additional traffic and parking that would come with at pool at Hearst. Suffice it to say that my reading of the dismissal of those concerns is that it is a "neighborhood" pool that will be for walking so no need to worry about cars and parking, etc. This person upthread here is specifically stating people will want to drive and park by the pool. What happened to all the "I need a pool at Hearst because I need to be able to walk to a pool, it's too much trouble to drive 10-15 minutes to one of the other close-by pools."[/quote]

You have trouble seeing the forest for the trees.

No one ever said people were not going to drive to a pool at Hearst or that everyone would walk.

There will certainly be people who can walk or bike or take transit to the pool who currently can't or don't do those things because the pool will be much closer to where they live.

And for the people who still drive for many it will be a much shorter trip because they will live closer to the pool and that too is a good thing.

There will clearly be more traffic around a pool and more parking demand - I'd be very surprised if you can find a single post in that 200 page thread that states otherwise.  How bad that additional demand will be is up for debate but there are other neighborhoods with similar sized pools and it has not led to a diminution of anyone's quality of life.

In any case there is another thread where this is being discussed.[/quote]

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