Posts tagged Glover Park
-
Breakfast links: Greenery
Plants come back to Dupont; Green roofs on the rise; Stadium could disrupt CaBi; Glover Park intersection redesigned; What to change in DC tax code; White Flint Mall legal battle continues; Less funding for DCHA; BRT construction moves ahead in Alexandria. Keep reading…
-
ANC 3D votes to support bike lanes on New Mexico Avenue
Last night, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D voted 5-4 to support adding bike lanes to New Mexico Avenue and Tunlaw Road in northwest DC. They also voted in favor of wider sidewalks on Nebraska Avenue, and asked DDOT to do a traffic study of New Mexico Avenue to help improve traffic flow and safety around Ward Circle. Ultimately, both sides on this issue wanted the same thing:… Keep reading…
-
Bike lanes on New Mexico Avenue will benefit everyone
Tonight, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D will vote on a proposal to add bike lanes to Tunlaw Road and New Mexico Avenue between Calvert Street and Nebraska Avenue in Northwest DC. The lanes will benefit cyclists, motorists, and pedestrians alike. New Mexico and Tunlaw form the only connection between two dense but transit-poor neighborhoods, Glover Park and Wesley Heights,… Keep reading…
-
Residents, officials push utilities to fix damaged sidewalks
When utilty companies tear up sidewalks in the District, they often don’t put them back. The resulting bumps and holes make annoying or often hazardous obstacles for pedestrians. Residents and leaders in Glover Park have been pushing for fixes, and getting results. Local groups are trying to make their neighborhood better for pedestrians. Glover Park Village, a nonprofit… Keep reading…
-
DDOT bows to pressure, removes Wisconsin Ave. median
Last week, DC officials quietly reversed their recent traffic calming project in Glover Park and began removing a new median on Wisconsin Avenue. With the Glover Park ANC’s support, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) replaced one lane on Wisconsin between 35th and Garfield streets with a painted median in January to calm traffic and improve pedestrian… Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Caught on tape
Police ticket U turns on Penn; School buildings to charters; Outer Beltway opposition grows; Suburban versus urban poverty; Fragile Northeast corridor; Uber still hates regulations; And…. Keep reading…
-
Parent hopes Glover Park schools can meet his kids’ needs
A Glover Park father and likely future Stoddert parent wrote in with his thoughts on how education affects his family’s thinking about where to live — especially with his child’s special circumstances. Thank you for launching the new education site. This topic has been especially an important topic for us. When we were looking for houses last year, we wanted… Keep reading…
-
Georgetowners seek to overturn Glover Park traffic calming
Upset Georgetown residents are challenging a 2012 traffic calming project in Glover Park. They say it has lengthened their car commutes through that adjacent neighborhood. Monday, these residents will air their frustrations at an extraordinary Georgetown ANC meeting with Councilmembers Jack Evans and Mary Cheh and DDOT Director Terry Bellamy. The idea for traffic… Keep reading…
-
Glover Park ANC supports zoning update; support them!
This Thursday night, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) in affluent upper Northwest’s Ward 3 will vote on a resolution about the DC zoning update. We need you to go try to dissuade the reactionary, backward commissioners from trying to keep new residents out of their fancy neighborhods and… wait a minute… they’re totally for it! ANC 3B, which… Keep reading…
-
Breakfast links: Not working?
Little movement in test scores; Hampton doesn’t need roads; Developer sues over empty IZ units; Recriminations over red tops; Free parking fight, 1955 on the Ellipse; From Russia with civic ambivalence; Not so sudden developments; Work done on Wisconsin; And…. Keep reading…