Posts tagged Upper Connecticut
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Pedestrians and drivers: Can’t we all just get along?
In the wake of last week’s traffic traffic fatality, columnists and bloggers are calling for peace—and some measure of balance—between drivers and pedestrians. Keep reading…
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How to improve pedestrian safety on Connecticut Avenue?
ANC Commissioner Mital Gandhi represents the area where Charles Schwartz was killed by an automobile on Wednesday. Gandhi just sent this to a variety of area neighborhood email lists: Keep reading…
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Pedestrian killed on Connecticut Avenue
I was at the Capitol Hill Town Square meeting last night and couldn’t post, but in case you didn’t see it elsewhere, a pedestrian was killed near Connecticut and Nebraska. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: streets for people edition
Outdoor seating causes rapes? Cleveland Park ANC Commissioner Frank Winstead was in top form Monday night to oppose late-night outdoor seating at Comet Ping Pong, arguing that it would “turn [the neigborhood] into Adams Morgan, with the murders [and] the rapes.” From Marc Fisher’s summary, it sounds like Winstead’s crusade and the resulting publicity… Keep reading…
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Is Chevy Chase’s anti-pedestrianism DDOT’s fault?
Richard Layman posts a letter from “Sue” claiming that “DDOT is eager to prove that ANCs are killing street life because DDOT constantly encounters ANC resistance” to projects like the drive-through Commerce Bank on Wisconsin, and “If a simple permit of the kind P&P needs to put its bench back out is a bureaucratic nightmare to get, is that Winstead’s… Keep reading…
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The war on pedestrians continues
The latest casualty in Frank Winstead’s war against pedestrians is Politics and Prose, which had to remove its outdoor bench. One step closer to making Chevy Chase a people-free zone. Keep reading…
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Weekend walking roundup
Walking: so crazy it’s almost illegal: A group of Alabama students is responding to high gas prices by walking to school. Their courage is even more notable because parade rules almost made their actions illegal and their town lacks sidewalks. Keep reading…