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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there an update on the competing petitions between Eddie Cano and Rosemary Bistro? Also will Rosemary Bistro close the streetery at end of 2024? So odd that there was so much vitriol and now, silence from all parties. Also curious how the traffic has been in mornings.[/quote]

Traffic flows pretty much unimpeded. The bottleneck north of Dupont is also not really much of an issue. The worst traffic at Calvert due to the left turn signal being a delayed one in a lane that can go south (straight) or east (left). A turning only lane, even if it is a short one, would help a lot.

One continuous issue on Connecticut and throughout the city is cars taking a right from the center lane. When there are pedestrians in the crosswalk, they block the rightmost traffic lane when they should pull into the right lane past parked cars to turn.  It is just laziness that causes drivers to have to slow down on their commute.[/quote]

What?  That's just wrong on so many levels.  For instance, Woodley Park ("the bottle neck north of Dupont") has the lowest level of traffic on all of Connecticut Ave.

Connecticut and Nebraska is [b]one of the most congested intersections in the entire DMV during rush hour[/b].  It sucks.[/quote]

One of the worst parts about the Internet is that you can just make stuff up and be wrong and anonymous. [/quote]

According to DDOT's own numbers it's the most congested intersection, on the most congested stretch of one of the most heavily trafficed roads in the City.  That intersection is so congested that even the neighboring side streets, like Albermarle, are now jam packed from people avoiding it.

Meanwhile you clearly don't live in the area and don't even know where the intersection is.

The congestion there is not solely related to the streetery but the streetery makes the intersection much worse and much less safe.  The pandemic is over.  Things are only going to get worse, especially if people start going back into the office on Mondays and Fridays.[/quote]

The streetery has almost no impact...there is a right turn arrow that virtually all of the drivers use. The through traffic is already in the center and left lane. The streetery is in the right lane. Do the math.[/quote]

Dear idiot: all the traffic is backed up all the way to hell in the center lane because anyone who's used this road on a prior morning understands that if they don't get over now, they never will.

Instead they'll be stuck in one place, contemplating the Kermit the Frog green Jersey barriers of Rosemary's in what should be the right lane of traffic.  [/quote]

The right turn lane is turning right, the center and left are going straight. This isn't hard.[/quote]

Why are you opining on and spreading aggressively ignorant disinformation on something that you clearly know nothing about?[/quote]

Not the prior poster, but DDOT has released several traffic studies of Conn Ave and every one of them showed that the outer lanes were ***FAR*** less utilized by drivers than the middle two lanes, because of the turning traffic or random parked cars that shouldn't be there but are constantly. [/quote]

The eatery is not in a turn only lane. It's blocking a regular straight lane. And anyone who does want to turn right after the eatery has to move left and then move right again quickly after the eatery. This is a location heavily trafficked by school children walking to school and residents of the elder care home. Lots of lane changing right there, with limited vision heading up to it, is unnecessarily dangerous. For what purpose? Is a handful of extra seats at one restaurant really worth this risk?[/quote]

Two lanes slow traffic more than three lanes, so the street with a streetery is actually better for little Timmy crossing it than one without it.[/quote]

Except people then take side streets to avoid the backup caused by a private business squatting on public property.  [/quote]

Silly poster, they take side streets anyway.[/quote]

Put up more rush hour no-turn and no-thru restrictions to keep the traffic off the side streets and on Connecticut Avenue where it belongs.[/quote]

The whole point of a grid street design is to allow pouricity of traffic flow. Adding restrictions simply turns the arterials into car sewers.[/quote]

Washington DC follow the federal functional classification of streets, not a true grid system.   Arterials are intended to carry the major traffic.  Better Connecticut than Albemarle or Northampton Streets.[/quote]

This is the unfortunate reality. There is no "better" place to route traffic. Short of digging an expressway underground or getting people back on metro (both essentially impossible these days) you're going to have CT carry the through volume.

Its unfortunate that businesses sprung up along CT, because now we know the suburban stroad design is terrible for everyone. Businesses and commuters alike. [/quote]

Not unfortunate for residents who patronize those businesses. Surely commuters realize that they are driving on city streets where businesses “sprang up” over 100 years ago?

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The average commuter doesn't care about anything but getting where they are going .1 seconds faster. That's why CT businesses punch well below their weight. The volume of commuters just makes the whole area less pleasant than it could be. CT Ave is almost devoid of "destinations" and relies almost entirely on local patronage. That would be fine if landlords priced rent to reflect that, but they still seem to think they can draw people from across town or the burbs.

CT avenue is just a slightly higher end NY Ave, and until people realize it and start fixing the design, its going to be stuck in this "should be good, but isn't" gray zone. [/quote]

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