H St Needs a Road Diet

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H St Needs a Road Diet

H St Needs a Road Diet

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Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2014
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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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Randy Clarke
Randy Clarke@wmataGM·
A good listen for those interested in the Metro-RFK site topic.
Cuneyt Dil@cuneytdil

Ⓜ️ Randy Clarke @wmataGM wants to expand the Stadium-Armory Metro station to make room for the thousands of Commanders fans at the RFK site. Here's a clip from our forthcoming Dream City Podcast interview with Randy. Full episode dropping Monday. @tomsherwood

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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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Metro Forward
Metro Forward@wmata·
Metro proposes essential upgrades to accommodate RFK Stadium, including enhancements to the Stadium-Armory station and the Gold Line Bus Rapid Transit. These improvements will ensure reliability, accessibility and capacity for fans and residents.
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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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Rich
Rich@1995hoo·
@DMVNewLiberals I’d suggest there’s a third key difference. A bus route can go either directly to the subway stop or at least into the Union Station parking garage near the escalators to the Amtrak concourse. Far better than the absurd walk from the streetcar stop in the middle of H Street.
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DMV New Liberals 🌐
DMV New Liberals 🌐@DMVNewLiberals·
Lots of people talking about the streetcar here but two key differences: 1. This BRT would be separated from traffic, something the H-St Streetcar never got 2. Busses are less sexy but WAY cheaper to build, operate, and scale
Edward Russell@ByERussell

WMATA is recommending against a new station to serve the northern side of the RFK redevelopment. Instead a new "Gold Line" BRT could connect RFK to Union Station along the former DC Streetcar corridor. #washingtondc

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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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Martin Austermuhle
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle·
The big question mark is the fate of the Hopscotch Bridge that carries H Street over the train tracks. Plans to rebuild it have been in the works for a decade or so, but have been held off because of changing plans for the Union Station expansion.
◥◤Kriston Capps@kristoncapps

Running BRT from the stadium through Georgetown could help to address game-day congestion at RFK, bring a new option to transit-starved H Street and restore the best elements of the K Street Transitway project — for much much less than building a new stadium Metro station.

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Will Morrissey
Will Morrissey@Wmorrissey4·
@dcadamb This graphic really puts into perspective just how close the existing stop is. Think WMATA got this decision right. Hard to justify $1 billion on Oklahoma Ave as nice as it would be
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Adam Bressler
Adam Bressler@dcadamb·
Not seeing anyone online discuss this — according to today’s meeting slides, WMATA considered a spur line w/ platforms directly next to RFK Stadium. Interesting concept, but I agree with WMATA’s conclusion to consider other improvements
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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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The Pug
The Pug@thepugdc·
@kristoncapps I wish there were business owners on H who pushed really hard to get the street car in the middle. Oh wait.
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◥◤Kriston Capps
◥◤Kriston Capps@kristoncapps·
! Tell me more about the Gold Line: "Center-running, dedicated bus lanes, potentially branded as the Gold Line, along H Street NE and Benning Road NE. . . Future BRT phases could extend east to connect RFK to Benning Road station and west to connect through downtown to Rosslyn"
Adam Tuss@AdamTuss

BREAKING-Metro is NOT recommending building a new station at the RFK site for a new Commanders Stadium. But the transit agency warns, if major improvements aren’t made to the existing station, fans could be waiting 2+ hours for trains and buses after events. @nbcwashington #wmata

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Charles Small
Charles Small@10chas·
In the next few years students in planning will get Bs from professors when they write papers about how CAHSR was a failure. But they will get As when they write about how the DC Streetcar was a failure. 3k? How is that verifiable? It was a free system. That was a laughable guesstimate. There was no ridership. And I know that because…it is no longer in use.
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Edward Russell
Edward Russell@ByERussell·
WMATA is recommending against a new station to serve the northern side of the RFK redevelopment. Instead a new "Gold Line" BRT could connect RFK to Union Station along the former DC Streetcar corridor. #washingtondc
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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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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Charles Allen
Charles Allen@charlesallen·
This shouldn’t be viewed as either / or. I think no new station is a big missed opportunity, but the Gold Line is the right decision no matter what. It will deliver faster, better, & more reliable east-west transit for DC residents every day of the year, not just on 8 Sundays.
Tom Roussey@tomroussey7news

NEW: After doing a study, Metro will not recommend building a new station north of the RFK site near Kingman Park. Instead Metro wants major upgrades to Stadium Armory & a new bus rapid transit line between Union Station & the new Commanders stadium expected to open 2030. #wmata

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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@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
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Safe Sidewalks DC
Safe Sidewalks DC@SafeSidewalksDC·
@10chas @ByERussell I have no idea what you are talking about as someone who travels to a lot of meetings. Streetcars are not tourist attractions or designed for them. And stadiums are not commonly or rarely used for conventions & never will be in DC since we have one of the largest centers in US.
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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@wmataGM I live in DC without a car, even being on the east side of H St with no easy metro accessibility. We just lost the streetcar. I'm hoping metro and the city can get their acts together to build meaningfully good transit for this massive gap.
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Randy Clarke
Randy Clarke@wmataGM·
Shouldn’t touch what has to be click bait…btw Metro 🚇🚌 & bikes DC is very livable w/o a car and an incredible city to live. I love NYC but DC has so much to offer too and proud that Metro is the backbone of making our city and region easy to get around.
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Blackout
Blackout@BlackOutSpartan·
@conorjrogers Genuine question: What is a streetcar accomplishing that a Bus couldn't? Like I get if you're gonna build light rail like the Purple Line that spends significant time on separate track, but the Streetcar was 100% on streets. Seemingly it has all the downsides of a bus.
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Conor Rogers
Conor Rogers@conorjrogers·
The thing about the Streetcar is that, if the original plan had been done in full and done correctly, we would live in a transformed and inter-connected city. The failure of it is emblematic of the mediocrity we've grown to accept from District leaders. What could have been:
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The Hill is Home@theHillisHome

The @DCStreetcar is done, ten years and one month after it started operating on H Street NE. It could have been wonderful; it could have been extended. Instead, it was a victim of apathy and lack of caring. Long live the streetcar.

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WAKEY-WAKEY
WAKEY-WAKEY@WAKEYWAKEYgb·
@TramFanAccount @ggwash Or maybe add a bus or two or don’t- won’t cost $250 million we already paid for this white elephant
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H St Needs a Road Diet
H St Needs a Road Diet@TramFanAccount·
@Ivanof4DC @beyonddc @DCStreetcar They're different. One isn't better than the other. Successful cities have many modes of transportation. Streetcars are more accessible and have a higher capacity than busses.
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