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Eliminating parking spaces on U Street will force more cars into the residential area, where parking is already becoming near impossible. Families with young children coming home from the grocery store or disabled residents now have to drive around and park farther away to shlep their children and groceries. This will aggravate the problem.

You can't put street level retail on the northeast corner of 17th and U street if there is a fire station. Rescue vehicles need a wide open path to a major street. So forget that plan.

When Metro built an office building at the 13th street rail entrance of U Street Cardozo station, they removed a set of bike lockers. Those should be put back in somewhere, maybe at the 10th st. exit.

I wish there were a way to discourage people from driving into the U Street nightlife area instead of using taxis and mass transit. One solution might be 24 hour parking restrictions with late night enforcement.

The commercial loading problem is on 14th Street, south of U Street all the way to the circle. Bike traffic is heavy on those lanes and yet we all have to swerve around delivery vehicles who plop themselves right in the bike lanes.

by Esteban Guzman on Aug 12, 2008 11:02 pm • link • report