Comments on: No Big Dig for New York Ave

By: The Right Side of the Tracks | TheCityFix DC

The Right Side of the Tracks | TheCityFix DC — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:41:45 +0000

[...] of this is greatly augmented by the proposal to build over the tracks behind the station. I’ve already written about how difficult these same train tracks make it to have vibrancy along the New York Avenue [...]

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By: Noah Kazis

Noah Kazis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:27:02 +0000

Noah M. – the DDOT proposal calls for burying NY Ave West of North Capitol. This is a good idea. Richard Layman calls for expanding the burying all the way to the MD line. This is what I critique.

By: Daniel M. Laenker

Daniel M. Laenker — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:12:22 +0000

I think we can generally credit the strange insistence with which these proposals keep arising with the persistence of one or two people in the face of pretty much any and all evidence.

By: Noah Mamis

Noah Mamis — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:45:12 +0000

Sorry, Noah, but I’m slightly confused. Isn’t the stretch of NY Ave between Mt Vernon Square and North Capitol Street to the West of the area you go on to describe? I didn’t read very much of the DDOT’s proposal because I’m busy saving the West, but I didn’t see them calling for burying NY Ave anywhere in Northeast.

By: Noah Kazis

Noah Kazis — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:22:53 +0000

BeyondDC, couldn’t agree more. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to clarify that I don’t think NY Ave NE isn’t a potential site for development, but rather that I think the specific development benefits of burying a highway are unlikely to work there.

By: BeyondDC

BeyondDC — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:07:47 +0000

PS: The I-395 trench from E St to Mass Ave should be the city’s highest-priority highway to cap. Luckily those plans are already in the works.

By: BeyondDC

BeyondDC — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:06:54 +0000

There’s plenty of good urban redevelopment potential along its stretch in Northeast. The road is really no different there from any suburban arterial. It may as well be Rt 355 in Gaithersburg, Rt 1 in College Park, or 50 in Fairfax. On NY Ave, just like on those other places, the answer isn’t to bury anything, but is to give the road the boulevard treatment. That’s all you need from the square up to Bladensburg Road. After Bladensburg Road we may as well just accept that it’s a highway.

If we’re going to bury any roads, I’d rather bury 14th Street under the Mall (like 12th), or 395 in Southwest, or that tangle in front of the Kennedy Center.

Actually, if we’re going to go to the expense of burying anything, I’d rather it be a train.