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Great article with lots of great points.

We're seeing this more and more in DC as well, particularly in places where the residents of these 'Ellsworth Drives' have the capital to push through such restrictions.

You also see echoes of it in the complaints about the Wisconsin Avenue streetscape project in Glover Park, where there are complaints that streamlining Wisconsin will result in non-residents using side streets. Also, of course, in the Georgetown neighbors' insistence on removing University buses from "residential" streets.

This really is one of those key philosophical differences. Either you believe in a complete street grid or you believe that traffic should stick to arterials and side streets should be for residents only. There's space between the two, but at its core, you're talking about two fundamentally opposed views of urban layout.

by Dizzy on Jul 31, 2012 1:16 pm • link • report

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