Posts tagged Connecticut Avenue
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DD’ohT! Signs of the times
We have a short but sweet DD’ohT! this week from a tipster along Connecticut Avenue, where DDOT has two conflicting signs at the intersection with Hawthorne Street, just south of the National Zoo. Keep reading…
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Montgomery making Conn. Ave. more like a freeway
Montgomery County’s DOT wants to increase vehicle speeds on Connecticut Avenue, build a road through parkland, and cut off a neighborhood’s local street connections to Connecticut, further showing that they are out of touch with what we’ve learned about traffic and the design of communities since the 1960s. The upcoming move of Walter Reed to Bethesda… Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Happy hour tonight on H Street, plus Alexandria tour, open data, BRAC, Connecticut Ave
Tonight is the latest in our series of Greater Greater Washington happy hours. Join us at Biergarten Haus, 1355 H Street NE, starting at 6:30. There are happy hour drink specials until 7:00, but we’ll of course stay longer than that. You can get there by X1, X2, X3, X8, or B2 buses, bicycle, car, or if you have a time machine, go into the future, ride the streetcar, then come back… Keep reading…
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Median proposed for Conn. Ave. streetscape
The Golden Triangle BID hired the consultants HNTB to conduct a streetscape study for Connecticut Avenue between Farragut and Dupont. That stretch has some of DC’s fanciest stores and extremely heavy foot traffic, and should therefore be a prime shopping and restaurant district. But the street itself leaves much to be desired, with relatively few trees and some very wide,… Keep reading…