Posts tagged Rosedale
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Huge improvements for safety, cycling, and walking on C Street NE are back on (cycle) track
C Street NE near RFK Stadium is a mega-street with fast-moving traffic. A project to calm traffic and make it better for walking and bicycling is moving forward, after transportation officials almost cut back the project but reversed course in the wake of community uproar. Keep reading…
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DC DPR wants feedback on parks. Give them yours
Do you use your local park, rec center or pool? Have you encountered any problems? If you don’t use them, why not? The Department of Parks and Recreation needs to hear from you to make its facilities better. Most complaints I hear about DPR facilities concern upkeep or the attitude of park employees. But there are a lot of parks and a lot of staff, many short-term, running… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cuts all around
Cuts could kill?; DCPS cuts 660 jobs; Metro shuts markets; A gentrifier comes to Rosedale; CaBi keeps growing; WABA keeps low profile in Wards 7 & 8; Peds struck, one killed in Loudoun; Federal government to sell property; And…. Keep reading…
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For ANC in northern Ward 6
Northern Ward 6 contains the rapidly-growing Mount Vernon Triangle, NoMA and H Street areas. These are some of the most dynamic in DC and very likely will see the greatest amount of change in the near term. Development is coming to the rail yards north of Union Station, a number of vacant lots in NoMa and the Mount Vernon Triangle are getting filled in, a streetcar is coming to H Street,… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Parks and schools
Lighting up Sherman Circle; New parks in NE Capitol Hill?; Benefits of school integration; Too cool for school; New 11th Street bridges on track; PG County gets first “high-end” grocery; Church housing; Fairfax wants chunk of VA surplus; No more back doors. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: on and on and on
Columbia Pike streetcar gets design money: Arlington has approved funding to design and plan a Columbia Pike streetcar. This $3 million will let the county work on figuring out how to come up with the rest of the money they need to actually build the thing. (How about having VDOT use more transportation dollars for streetcars instead of all highways all the time?) P.S. I call on all DC… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Things are going very Wells
Give me a C: Councilmember Tommy Wells (Ward 6) has endorsed the C Street, Northeast neighbors’ suggestion to narrow C west of RFK Stadium. Previously: we looked at C Street proposals. Keep reading…
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Positive resident activism: C Street, NE
Like Dupont’s 15th Street and many others around DC, C Street, NE in the Rosedale section of Capitol Hill is a neighborhood street that traffic engineers turned into a high-speed traffic raceway. After crossing the Anacostia on East Capitol Street, the freeway-like road passing RFK Stadium dumps traffic onto C Street. According to the 2005 Capitol Hill transportation study… Keep reading…