Posts tagged Eckington
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Ride the 82 streetcar from 5th & G to Branchville
Thanks to video posted on YouTube, we can take a historic ride on the DC Transit 82 streetcar line from 5th & G (near what is now WMATA headquarters) all the way to the Branchville neighborhood of College Park. Keep reading…
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Better access to RI Ave Metro would help communities
Despite being one of the original stations in the Metro system, the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood station hasn’t reached the potential of so many others because of a lack of connections into the nearby communities. Simply improving pedestrian access to the station will invigorate otherwise disconnected neighborhoods. In 1976, designers created a park and ride station,… Keep reading…
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Pop-up stores could be key to Rhode Island Ave rebirth
Once a bustling district, Rhode Island Avenue NE is currently home to little more than series of boarded-up shops, storefront churches and vacant lots. Pop-up stores, which have been appearing elsewhere in DC, could prove to be a great remedy for the area’s economy and an excellent starting point for turning the neighborhood around. In the first half of the twentieth… Keep reading…
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DDOT seeks community input on R Street bike improvements
The R Street NW bike lane is an important east-west thoroughfare for cyclists in DC, stretching from Massachusetts Avenue NW to Florida Avenue NW. The only gap remaining is 6 blocks between Florida Avenue and the Metropolitan Branch Trail. DDOT hopes to fill this gap soon. On Saturday morning, local ANC Commissioners hosted representatives from DDOT to meet with residents… Keep reading…
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Ward 5 needs more, smaller ANC’s
The Ward 5 Redistricting Task Force recently began the process of deciding if and how to redraw the ward’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs). The task force should create more ANC’s with fewer Single Member Districts (SMDs) in each. SMDs are the individual districts that make up each ANC. Each SMD serves around 2,000 constituents. Commissioners are unpaid,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Deck party
OP wants to restore a L’Enfant avenue; Sidewalk cafes bloom downtown; Walter Reed charging forward; Metro counts bikes; SUVgate, Congressional edition; DC strikes oil in burgers; Discuss R Street bike lane, east of river Circulator; And…. Keep reading…
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Join GGW at Anacostia Community Museum & Art Gallery
Greater Greater Washington invites you to a Sunday afternoon tour of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum and the Anacostia Art Gallery on July 10. Other events coming up include the Kidical Mass bike ride, a gathering on Met Branch Trail safety, a streetcar happy hour, and Arlington’s Capital Bikeshare expansion meeting. For the Anacostia day,… Keep reading…
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DDOT proposes Eckington bike lane, commissioner opposes
DDOT wants to help people on bikes traverse R Street in Eckington with sharrows and a one-block contraflow lane. ANC commissioner Sylvia Pinkney is organizing a petition to oppose the project, but some of her fellow commissioners and neighbors don’t share her distaste. R Street has an existing bike lane west of Florida Avenue, but there is a gap in Eckington, where people… Keep reading…
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I Wish This Were… in Bloomingdale/Eckington/Truxton Circle
Forward-thinking New Orleanians started putting stickers on abandoned buildings and other places they wish were more than they are. Borrowing the idea, minus the physical tagging of properties, we bring you the first installment of “I Wish This Were…”, where GGW contributors imagine a better use for vacant properties and poorly-conceived public spaces… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not entirely effective
‘Effective’ DC teachers not effectively distributed; Metro escalator model problematic; Embassy wants parking to buy more cars; LA TV has windshield perspective too; Street crossers like lemmings?; ICC part 1 opening soon; NYC gets camera-enforced bus lanes; Suburban poor struggle in recession; And…. Keep reading…