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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cheapest possible housing is about to come to Cleveland Park in the form of hundreds of Condos in the old fFannie Mae building. If that doesn’t elevate the housing problem, what will?[/quote]
What’s the pricing?[/quote]
Forget the pricing, I just looked at the sketch drawings and Wisconsin Ave is going to be forever unusable once this is done. It’s friggin enormous. I count 7 buildings behind the Fannie Mae building. How did this ever get approved based on traffic impacts alone? They also refuse to release pricing, but entry price will easily be $700k from the looks of things. I’m not sure how this development will support the more supply reduces price thesis. [/quote]

Plus Sidwells new lower school campus will be opening directly across the street. Bear that in mind. And that Wisconsin and Connecticut are supposedly evacuation lanes.
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DC will need to widen 34th/Reno corridor as a relief route for Wisconsin, etc.  Price of progress.[/quote]

There isn’t room to widen Reno/34th - bad idea [/quote]

Look at DDOT’s traffic analyses.  They consider Reno as a leading alternative corridor for through traffic as greater density and bike lanes are added along the major arterials, Connecticut and Wisconsin Ave.[/quote]

But how? Maybe it could be widened if the sidewalks are taken out and they cut down the hundreds of trees that line the road. They could take portions of the front lawns of the homes using eminent domain but does that work for the embassies? What about the schools along 34th? Do they become even smaller? I can’t imagine how that plan would work or what the costs would be.

I can imagine them making Reno/34th one way at certain times. That would be a bother for locals but would help with traffic patterns. [/quote]
They don’t have right of way to widen, at least 34th. You can see this when you get to Eaton. I am not sure about Reno but the only way to make 34th wider is to remove sidewalk. Or, expropriate people’s minuscule front yards opposite Eaton which probably would only net 1 lane max and would be more trouble than it’s worth. I would also note that the Speed Limit on 34th is now 15 MPH which is also incompatible with being an arterial thoroughfare. The reality is that DC really needs to start focusing on promoting development in the less dense parts of the city. 
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The obvious outcome is that they will not be adding bike lanes on Wisconsin and Connecticut. Traffic impacts, costs and all this hassle about widening Reno make it not feasible. [/quote]

The addition of bike lanes on Connectict Ave has ZERO impact on car traffic at Reno/34th.

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It’s nit just the bike lanes.  When when DDOT cuts rush hour carrying capacity on Connecticut Ave by 50%, from four to two lanes, it’s willfully naive to pretend that there won’t be an impact of commuter traffic diverted to other north-south routes.  DDOT’s own study shows about a 15 percent daily traffic increase on 34th St in Cleveland Park, which has narrow sidewalks next to the traffic lanes and several schools facing the street.  34th St in this area already carries more vehicles per lane-mile (a standard traffic metric), so a 15 percent increase is not trivial at all.[/quote]

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