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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Closing 42nd Street shouldn't happen. There is simply no public benefit to giving public right of way over to an independent school. Further, it would put major traffic burdens on the residents of the greater River Road and Wisconsin Avenue areas. Any proposal to do this would be fought by local residents.[/quote]

What exactly is the "greater...Wisconsin Avenue area"?

I happen to favor closing the intersection of 42nd at Wisconsin, but if it enhances safety for the school kids and yields some green space,  Unless the pubic ROW were closed and deeded over to GDS, which is most unlikely, the ROW could not be used for building.  I also think this would benefit the neighborhood, right down through the entire west side of AU Park.  Right now commuters use 42nd as  a bypass around Wisconsin traffic but through the neighborhood, to reach Nebraska and vice versa.  The amount of traffic on 42nd has been a perpetual problem, with various attempts to fix it with rumble strips, mini circles, etc. but to no avail.  And it may get worse with the opening of the AU law school on the west side of Tenley Circle.

I'm all in favor of encouraging commuter traffic to go where it is supposed to be, which is on the major arterial roads, not cutting through a residential neighborhood which is what happens today with 42nd  St.  The proposal to modify the intersection with Wisconsin, and thereby divert the steady street of commuter traffic back  to Wisconsin, is indeed a sensible one.[/quote]

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