Posts tagged Sesw Freeway
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Freeways of the south and east
I’m working on a series about the controversial 11th Street bridge project and its impact on the DC region. To illustrate various proposals, I’ve created this diagram of the major highway routes between Greenbelt/New Carrollton and Springfield via DC and Arlington. Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Fashionable transportation and land use
Très cycle chic: Cycling and fashion go together, and at least in Europe, there are whole blogs devoted to photos of people looking good while riding a bicycle. One could easily get plenty of similar photos on one of DC’s main streets to or from downtown around rush hour. Tip: Froggie. Keep reading…
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A busy day for NCPC
This morning, the National Capital Planning Commission (the federal government’s planning body for the DC area) released a great proposal for the future of the Federal area of the city. It calls for decking over not only the E Street Expressway but almost all of the “ramp spaghetti”, creating space for new buildings east and northeast or the Kennedy Center and… Keep reading…
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DDOT suggests cutting 395 to Mass Ave
DDOT has asked the TPB to study traffic on I-395 (the “Center Leg”) and evaluate the closing the section between Mass Ave and New York Avenue, according to WTOP. From their letter: Keep reading…
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Meet the new route through DC
If you ask Google Maps how to get from Baltimore to Richmond (or New York to Raleigh, or Boston to Miami), it suggests taking the Beltway around through Bethesda and Tysons to circumvent DC. But that may change. Keep reading…
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Induced non-demand
Should we really convert freeways to boulevards? In my quick link Saturday about boulevardizing the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, TJ wrote, “the volume day and night is pretty heavy, so a street conversion would just make it a nightmare.” What’s the reality? We can’t know for sure about this case, but in other cases where cities have removed freeways… Keep reading…
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Boulevardize the SE/SW Freeway
Ballpark and Beyond brings up the on-again, off-again idea of replacing the Southeast-Southwest Freeway with a boulevard. Its hulking form makes people feel unsafe walking from the Capitol South Metro to the ballpark. A wide Virginia Avenue with timed lights wouldn’t be so much worse for drivers and much better for everyone else. Keep reading…
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South Capitol: L’Enfant strikes back
From the South Capitol EIS:As a primary corridor in L’Enfant’s 1791 Plan for the City of Washington, South Capitol Street was envisioned as one of the symbolic gateways to the city and its Monumental Core. … Today, South Capitol Street lacks any characteristics of its historic and intended function as a gateway. … South Capitol Street is an urban freeway that has… Keep reading…
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Replacing people with cars
Via DC Metrocentric, this is the intersection of Virginia Avenue and 8th Street SE, in 1928 and in 2007. When mid-century planners tore apart cities to enable large volumes of cars from the suburbs, neighborhoods like this one disappeared forever. DC’s original plan for freeways would have destroyed more of what are now considered beautiful and historic; this one, though,… Keep reading…