H St Needs a Road Diet

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@PatrioticAutist @SafeSidewalksDC @KonartistNupe But it is a city with basic city services. Does congress want to run our trash services and building permit office.

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@LeRoyJenkinsEsq @kevsaucebro If they built this, my house and my neighborhood wouldn't exist

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@JPL606 @wmataGM The ironic thing about this is that we actually did the opposite and ripped out all the trains to build 4000 roads, removed housing, pedestrian space, and access for bikes.

Right now we're just fighting for some of that back.

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@NotAPajamaBoy @beyonddc @DCStreetcar @PATrolleyMuseum @CTTrolley @trolleymuseumny @SLTrolley @streetcarmuseum @MNStreetcar It wasn't actually a failure. Nearly 3k people rode it every day. The failure was not expanding it.

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@drnmcfox @beyonddc @DCStreetcar @PATrolleyMuseum @CTTrolley @trolleymuseumny @SLTrolley @streetcarmuseum @MNStreetcar They could even leave the tracks where they are and just put up concrete barriers to make the lanes protected. All it would cost is 100-150 street parking spots on H St.

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@musserryan Master Dong!!!! He's my neighbor

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@wmataGM Revive the DC streetcar, remove 100 parking spots from H St, and protect the current streetcar lanes.

Could be done in six months.

Then Spend five years getting it under hopscotch bridge to the redline and building the Benning Rd extension that is already planned out.

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@wmata @wmataGM It just makes way more sense to revive the already constructed streetcar and remove 100 parking spaces from H St to make the current tracks protected transit only lanes

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@1995hoo @DMVNewLiberals Likely they would explore using the already dug tunnel under the hopscotch bridge, which would actually be easier for rail to use them busses since there isn't enough space to turnaround.

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@DMVNewLiberals But the streetcar infrastructure is already built and we could give it traffic separation just by removing about 100 street parking spaces from H St with no construction needed

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@maustermuhle The tunnel. Is already dug underneath. I say just use it and force other plans to conform to that. We can't wait forever.

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@Wmorrissey4 @dcadamb It wouldn't just be for the stadium. It would be for the insanely high density housing that Benning Road is turning out to be.

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@theHillisHome Then we could open the tunnel under hopscotch to bring the streetcar right to the red line and do the already fully designed and planned Benning Rd extension. All of that would be doable by 2030.

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@theHillisHome The simplest, easiest, fastest solution would be to revive the streetcar and remove the ~100 parking spots from H St to make the current lanes protected transit only lanes. No new construction needed. No environmental studies. It could be done in 6 months.

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@TODNewsHub Wouldn't it be easier just to make the current streetcar lanes protected dedicated lanes. It would cost like 100 parking spots, but require nearly zero new construction.

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@thepugdc @kristoncapps I find it odd that we would build an entirely new BRT system instead of just working with the streetcar system we have. We could make the current streetcar lanes protected transit only lanes all at the cost of like 100 parking spots on H Street.

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@10chas @SafeSidewalksDC @ByERussell The cars had trackers that tracked ridership and reported it to the FTA. That is how we count all transit systems' ridership in this country.

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@charlesallen @EdwardRyder Wouldn't it be easier to just use the streetcar line, run it in the tunnel under the hopscotch bridge, remove parking on H St and make the current streetcar lanes protected with designated transit lanes. Then extend to Benning Rd metro which we already have fully planned.

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@SockDem_ @SafeSidewalksDC @ByERussell They could just implement the plan that was literally just cancelled to make the current lanes transit only lanes. Remove parking in H St. Problem solved.

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@SafeSidewalksDC @10chas @ByERussell Also I don't get how people are allowed to push a narrative that the street at was a failure. It had nearly 3k riders per day. How is that a failure for a 2.2 mile line with no metro connection? The planning documents for the Benning Rd metro extension estimated 11k daily riders