Anonymous wrote:LOL, this isn't a NIMBY thing.

Lady, this is literally a NIMBY thing.

It doesn't matter how many schools, businesses or other institutions are around. You are fighting this because you don't want the school there, even though it is 3 blocks from a metro station. If anything, it makes much more sense for it to be there than on MacArthur Blvd.

You don't know what NIMBY means, lady (I'm PP and I'm not female). Opposition to development is not inherently NIMBYism. The fact that there are already many other schools in the neighborhood actually shows that it's not NIMBYism at play here. But you do you, if your simple brain is incapable of any nuanced reasoning.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL, this isn't a NIMBY thing.

Lady, this is literally a NIMBY thing.

It doesn't matter how many schools, businesses or other institutions are around. You are fighting this because you don't want the school there, even though it is 3 blocks from a metro station. If anything, it makes much more sense for it to be there than on MacArthur Blvd.

Because lots of folks paying $40k+ for elementary school get their kids to school by Metro.

Lots of people in AU Park send their kids to private schools in other areas snd think nothing of the traffic impact they are causing themselves. If you live there and haul your child to, say, STA or NCS every day, how are you not contributing to the same problem in Woolley or Cleveland Park?

Anonymous wrote:LOL, this isn't a NIMBY thing.

Lady, this is literally a NIMBY thing.

It doesn't matter how many schools, businesses or other institutions are around. You are fighting this because you don't want the school there, even though it is 3 blocks from a metro station. If anything, it makes much more sense for it to be there than on MacArthur Blvd.

Because lots of folks paying $40k+ for elementary school get their kids to school by Metro.

LOL, this isn't a NIMBY thing.

Lady, this is literally a NIMBY thing.

It doesn't matter how many schools, businesses or other institutions are around. You are fighting this because you don't want the school there, even though it is 3 blocks from a metro station. If anything, it makes much more sense for it to be there than on MacArthur Blvd.

Anonymous wrote:Hyperbole rules the roost.

NIMBYs look to be as NIMBY as NIMBYs can be.

That's just stupid and intellectually lazy on your part to attribute this to NIMBYism. NIMBY has nothing to do with it, there are already tons of schools in the neighborhood.

Hyperbole rules the roost.

NIMBYs look to be as NIMBY as NIMBYs can be.

Anybody have an update after the ANC meeting?

Anonymous wrote:Where is a link of the presentation from the River School? I cannot find it on their website? An audio clip will work too.

It is no where to be found. A neighbor close to the site said River School will have it on their website soon - when is that? No one knows. Supposedly changes were made? Kinda hard to see them if they don't post them. So much for being open and transparent with the community. They will probably post once they force their way through the ANC and BZA.

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Anonymous wrote:You do know that an analogy does not include every characteristic of the things being compared, right? In fact, usually not. Water takes the path of least resistance as does traffic.

So does fire and that can be deadly. Fine another analogy, Shakespeare.

As can bad drivers.

While I appreciate your comparing my poor analogy to Shakespeare, I don’t pretend to equal the Bard. As you know, he was well-known even in his own time for deft use of analogy, including analogies using water such as Portia’s quality of mercy speech or the drop of water analogy in Comedy of Errors. You can google more Shakespeare analogies or even the definition. Now, bid me farewell and let me hear you going.

What does any of this have to do with the issue? Can the two (?) of you take this somewhere else? If you have the River School's presentation from April 22nd I'd love to hear that!

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Anonymous wrote:You do know that an analogy does not include every characteristic of the things being compared, right? In fact, usually not. Water takes the path of least resistance as does traffic.

So does fire and that can be deadly. Fine another analogy, Shakespeare.

As can bad drivers.

While I appreciate your comparing my poor analogy to Shakespeare, I don’t pretend to equal the Bard. As you know, he was well-known even in his own time for deft use of analogy, including analogies using water such as Portia’s quality of mercy speech or the drop of water analogy in Comedy of Errors. You can google more Shakespeare analogies or even the definition. Now, bid me farewell and let me hear you going.

Anonymous wrote:You do know that an analogy does not include every characteristic of the things being compared, right? In fact, usually not. Water takes the path of least resistance as does traffic.

So does fire and that can be deadly. Fine another analogy, Shakespeare.

Where is a link of the presentation from the River School? I cannot find it on their website? An audio clip will work too.

Does anyone have feedback or report from the April 22 meeting/ presentation?

You do know that an analogy does not include every characteristic of the things being compared, right? In fact, usually not. Water takes the path of least resistance as does traffic.

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Anonymous wrote:^ With all the traffic slowness it will be safe to cross Nebraska!

(And there is a light/crosswalk at Van Ness.)

Okay, no. I work in the area, and I hate that intersection of Nebraska/Van Ness near that weird side street, 41st. I have witnessed many near misses due to the congestion already present (parked cars, many walkers/bikes, many carpoolers). I can't imagine that adding cars and people to the situation will help.

If the traffic is slow because of all the congestion, then it is safer for peds and bikers. It can't be both.

You cannot be serious. Because the people stuck in the congestion are totally calm and collected after being stuck there and totally inconvenienced, right? They don't speed away when it is time to go? Or try and make a quick cut when something frees up? Or maybe when they are cutting away they don't see that walking pedestrian or biker trying to cross the road in your sacred cross walk? Sure you don't care now until it is YOUR loved one that gets hurt or in an accident. Selfish.

Like water, traffic will find a way. Those drivers will seek a bail out route through the neighborhood. This will be due to River School congestion but River won’t be able to police random drivers. This will put more cars on neighborhood streets.

Water and traffic are most definitely not one and the same. Water provides life, nourishment and can be a protector of LIFE. Traffic increases the mobility in drivers, decreases air quality and has a severe impact on road rage.

River School might not be able to "police" random drivers, but the will be able to control what they do to the neighborhood by how they design their campus and traffic management plan. Their current campus agenda does not fit. From what I heard from a neighbor that attended the very private zoom, the UP AND COMING campus STILL DOES NOT FIT.