Please let folks know that Vision McMillan Partners released its Traffic Impact Study today.
I have posted it on the MAG website in its entirety.
Folks can find the study here.
VMP doesn't appear to have studied anything south of Channing Street.... till you get down to Rhode Island..... they don't seem to have really taken into account the impacts on Bloomingdale hardly at all.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, I live on W Street and 1st.... the traffic study shows the greatest impacts being at the north end of 1st street next to the site. If that area is blocked up every morning and there is a 20min traffic jam from employees and patrons coming into the site plus all the folks commuting outwards, everybody who lives on W street or Adams who wants to travel northbound will be compelled to exit northwards directly onto N. Capitol. Particularly on W, but also on Adams, this is an extremely dangerous proposition because of the cars travelling at high speed coming out of the N. Capitol tunnel (Rhode Island overpass) who have a limited view until they exit the tunnel. I think you'll have some very nasty car accidents there unless there are measures taken to slow the traffic coming up N. Capitol. I can't see anything that does this in this plan. Otherwise, we'll be sitting in traffic jams on 1st street NW or turning onto Bryant or Channing to use the red lights on N. Capitol....so that too will be an area totally blocked up in the mornings/evenings.
What happened to the city plan to reconfigure traffic on N. Capitol....and to reconstruct the city scape? Will it remain a high speed urban freeway?
When you add the density being proposed (AND all the developments going on at Howard, Catholic, Trinity, hospital zone) there is obviously going to be THOUSANDS more cars in the 'hood every day. First st nw is going to be a nightmare traffic jam all the way down to RI Ave NW. The side streets (Adams, W, U, V) are going to be Off or On ramps to North Capitol. This was no study of traffic southward down First to RI Ave NW which is where the increased traffic flow is going to put massive pressure on Bloomingdale. VOTE THEM OUT NEXT MONTH! Save McArthur Park..
ReplyDeleteFirst Street - south of Rhode Island, the southern half of Bloomingdale- also suffers from heavy traffic, and cars and trucks using the side streets to cut back and forth to North Capitol. First Street is the on ramp to the Third Street Tunnel off New York Avenue, so it is really a much larger zone than the previous posts by youse guys in northern Bloomingdale have noted.
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