🚀 go-pugleaf

<rectalhorror@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1147269768.930972.37670@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> But,
>> because of the possibility of the freeway being removed from that
>> stretch, I have to say I'm not in favor of bringing the Barney Circle
>> Freeway back from the dead.
>
> I've never understood that whole Barney Circle situation. Having the
> freeway dead end at the Pennsylvania Avenue Tunnel makes no sense.
> People take that illegal ramp up from under the tunnel every day (never
> seen anyone ever get ticketed for that), and just drive around to get
> on East Capitol Street and onto 295. The  residents aren't "saving the
> environment", they're just forcing the cars across Pennsylvania Avenue
> to idle at the light before they go on northbound 295. But I guess
> pollution's ok so long as it isn't in their neighborhood.

When have you seen this? I ask this because I've tried taking the road 
myself, just to be confronted with a gate blocking off the roadway. When I 
did this though, I was trying to get to the Nationals stadium store, which 
at the time was set up in one of the lots at RFK (it was like early March 
2005). It could have changed though when the team started playing games 
there, but I'm suspecting you had people thinking in the same mindset I had, 
especially since the local ADC Map seems to make it look like it is 
possible. Me, and likely those people, had to make a U-turn where the 
barrier separation ends shortly before the gate. The times I went to see a 
game at RFK last season before moving, I always took Metro, and never got a 
chance to try at it again.

>
> I recall reading in Hill Voice or Hill Rag about some covert plan to
> resurrect the bypass under some other name. Considering how gentrified
> the area has become, and the nature of the suburban traffic, If it ever
> comes to pass, the anti-bypass slogan would probably be "No Black Mens
> Roads through White Men's Homes."
>
Two problems with that approach: 1) There really aren't any homes that would 
be affected except maybe for ramps to/from DC 295, and 2) the biggest 
supporters of the plan would likely be people from Northern VA, which is not 
exactly a predominately black area, trying to avoid traffic on the Beltway.