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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could get most of the throughput back if you switched Connecticut over to using smart lights and give people a green wave at 25mph. Then we don't need to use a park as a commuter route. [/quote]

You mean like synchronized traffic lights on the major routes, like other cities do?  Don't hold your breath.  DC has never figured that out.  It sometimes seems like traffic on a major route has to stop at every.  single.  traffic.  light.  Vehicles stop for a red light, the signal finally goes to green and then the visible green light a block ahead then turns to red.  Think of the wasted time, gas consumed and idling exhaust involved.  Of course, keeping Beach Drive closed while narrowing Connecticut Ave seems foolish.  Then the twice-diverted traffic just adds to Wisconsin and Reno Rd's mess.[/quote]

Actually DC had figured it out. Then the transplants moved in and decided to treat the streets like highways.  Sotheby’s lights are no longer synchronized on most streets to cut down on speeding.  It’s funny how people who drive carefully in their own neighborhoods drive quite differently outside of them. [/quote]

Not sure it works like that.  In NW DC, one sees plenty of stopped traffic on the major roads peel off and look for a short cut through narrower neighborhood streets, driving fast and recklessly.  This is a case where better flowing traffic on Connecticut, etc.,  with a safe speed enforced, would make the side streets actually safer too.[/quote]

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