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Geoffrey Hatchard wrote:
> rectalhorror@gmail.com wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Out of curiousity, where do you live?  I'm just wondering where you're
> driving from to get to work in southeast.  And do you mean southeast on
> the west side of the river, or actually east of the river?

I live in NoVA, take GW Parkway to 14th STreet bridge, to Southeast
Freeway and off at Pennsylvania. I'm on the west side of the river, but
sometimes I have to get to Md. Then, I jump off at Barney Circle, up
17th Street, right on Potomac Avenue, 19th Street to East Cap.

All they need to do is widen RFK Stadium Access drive and extend it to
Independence. But that's about as likely as getting a City Council that
knows what it's doing. They're too busy adding names to Metro stops.

Aren't they supposed to demolish that stadium anyway? How difficult
would it be to just add a damned connecting roadway? Hell, make it a
half-mile toll freeway. I'd pay to avoid having to go through all those
streets. But try getting ANY new roads built in DC.