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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The handful of houses on the block in question are worth $2-3 million.

Demanding respect and sympathy while trying to screw over Davenport St is hypocritical at best.  There are pros and cons to having direct access to the Park.  The route has been there since before any of you bought your house.

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Have you ever walked up Grant Rd NW into RCP from Broad Branch to get to the Nature Center Area?  I don't think you have from your post above.  Because it's freaking terrifying. There's no shoulder, the cars driving on it are often speeding, and the turns in the road block a long line of sight for the most part.

Calling it "direct access to the park" isn't really accurate.

Anyway, I like the idea of making Davenport St 1-way and putting in sidewalks, cause that would allow folks to use that road to walk down (you can right now, but you're walking on the street and it's curvy and not safe to do).  But it'd be way better if Grant actually had side walks on one side (no need to do both).  That'd be great access for *everyone* west of the park.  Right now to get into the park you really need to go all the way up to military and glover rd.  You used to be able to take Soapstone Valley Trail to Broad Branch and then hoof it across to Ridge Rd, which wasn't great because Broad Branch also has no sidewalks.

Anyway, point is, side walks good.  People complaining about living on Davenport and not wanting it one-way bad.  [/quote]

I have and I drive up and down Broad Branch multiple times a day.  That intersection has a four way stop sign and outside of rush hour there is hardly any traffic on Broad Branch.  It's not unsafe and the two houses in question are both infill properties.

It's also ridiculous that this was even entertained.[/quote]

What does a 4-way stop sign have anything to do with it?  The discussion was about dropping a lane so there'd be some space for sidewalks.  Broad Branch has the same issue, the 2-lanes are the whole road - no shoulder, no sidewalk, not even dirt to walk on most of the way.  You're telling me that you walk up and down Broad Branch and Grant and Davenport and are like "ah this is perfectly fine"?  If so, you got some steel-y ones.[/quote]

why would i walk up and down Broad Branch when the Park and its trails are right there?[/quote]

Don't get me wrong.  I love your houses and long dreamt of having one of those houses facing Rock Creek with direct access to Broad Branch/Beach.  I am very envious.  I also love sidewalks.

But that doesn't mean that I think it's ok for you to try and privatize a locally important road, harm surrounding roads and neighborhoods or complain about a sidewalk when the houses you are in are infill built into a hill on a curve and utilized intersection.  That garage was placed there knowing full well what the situation was and the builder also chose not to grade the surrounding hill.

That was the tradeoff you got for one of the most exclusive and coolest properties in DC.[/quote]

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