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Allen Seth Dunn wrote:
> <rectalhorror@gmail.com> wrote in message
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 work in southeast and whenever I've had to go from the Freeway to
northbound 295, I've always been able to go under Pennsylvania and
around to East Capitol. It's only during RFK events that a cop is
stationed under the tunnel

> >
> > 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.

I think the biggest supporters would be PG Residents trying to get to
Southbound 95 without having to deal with New York Avenue or the Wilson
Bridge. The Southeast Freeway southbound is choked every morning headed
into VA.

Again, northbound 95 through downtown just ends at New York Avenue. If
anybody had the guts to try and continue it through Northeast to hookup
with 95 outside the Beltway, you'd hear a stink louder than the one
that was raised about the Intercounty Connector.