Posts tagged Georgetown
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WashCycle weighs in on Georgetown
The WashCycle weighs in on the Georgetown Transportation Study. In addition to my objection to using Level of Service calculations, they comb through the bike implications and come up with several objections: there’s little about bike lanes except some vague mentions, and nothing about bike parking. In WashCycle’s opinion, “The plan seems geared to moving… Keep reading…
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One-way schizophrenia from DDOT
I’m confused by DDOT. With one hand, they propose changing one-way 15th Street in Logan Circle into two-way, which is a very good idea (some reasons and some more. From that it seems that DDOT understands how making cars move faster through our neighborhoods doesn’t actually improve the quality of life. Keep reading…
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Unnecessary parking of the day: Hyde-Addison Elementary
The currently-unused Addison Elementary School building, on P Street right off Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown, is returning to use as a Differentiated Learning Lab. The open space next to the building is now under construction. Keep reading…
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Legalize Georgetown
I love DC’s rowhouse neighborhoods. I love the many buildings on a block with interesting colors and shapes. I love the neighborhood feel of the corner store. I love seeing people out walking their dogs, biking to work, or doing shopping. I’d like to preserve the neighborhoods that have this, and build new neighborhoods that have it too. Keep reading…
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Washington’s good streets and bad streets
Washington, DC is a city with some of the most magnificent public spaces and some of the worst at the same time. The Mall is mixed; it’s a huge tourist attraction with great, free museums and monuments, but many of the buildings present blank stone walls to the streets and there are too many cars, rendering it more of an empty grassy space between attractions than a destination in… Keep reading…
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Georgetown never blocked a Metro stop
Conventional wisdom says that the Washington DC Metro was supposed to go to Georgetown (after all, it barely misses it between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom), but NIMBY residents in the 1970s blocked the station. But it’s not true. Keep reading…