> (Fyi, I really don’t want to uber or metro, it’s just not my personal preference)

lol “I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas!”

> got us fighting over land that ain’t ours like cowboys and Indians

> so football, yup, cowboys and Indians

> and politics, yup, cowboys and idiots

We did it after getting age of majority so at 18 we could sign ourselves in/out. You still needed your parent’s consent and plenty of people’s parents didn’t sign it.

We did it in the Maryland suburbs ~15 years ago. The college version was to get a slice of pizza in Manhattan but I can’t remember what made it a timed challenge, maybe leave at a certain time and back for morning classes.

> No more bus option now that there’s metro

I don’t live near the silver line so the quickest way for me to travel with luggage to the silver line is by bus. If I use metro to get to Dulles, it still takes to get to the silver line (McPherson Square or Farragut West for me) then the ~60 minutes actually on the train.

I liked that between metro bus, weekend fare, the transfer discount and metro rail that it cost me $2 to get to Dulles when Uber/Lyft wanted $90 + tip. It still took me 90+ minutes though lol. In most cases if I were solo, I could see myself opting to use the bus instead of a ride share because it’s not worth $88+ to me to halve the time from 90 minutes to 45 minutes out there. But if I were with my partner or someone else, I could see wanting to split the ride share cost. I still prefer DCA in general, though.

Edit: There were lots of folks in nova getting on, though. Even if it’s not the most convenient for me in DC, it still looked very convenient for plenty of other people. Part of why I like DCA so much because metro makes it super easy to get there so if other people get that same convenience in Virginia then that’s great.

> Porch pirates got a surprise

pre-covid a friend of mine got his compost worms stolen and promptly strewn about the sidewalk several times lol

Don’t forget the Cosmos Club.

Park Place above the Petworth metro station has concrete floors and walls. I used to have a squat rack in my living room for the first year of the pandemic. I was careful and no complaints. I also never heard my neighbors, ever, and they had a dog. Takes about five minutes to walk to the platform and the train got me to work in 12 minutes station to station. The roof deck was pretty cool. I genuinely miss the views out of my window. Live on the west side of the building, not the Georgia Avenue side.

> I don’t know what the solution is. But IMO the duplexes and triplexes creates a slightly less expensive home but way smaller and the price per sq foot is gonna be much higher.

There are probably households who would choose a duplex or triplex in Tenleytown (or similar neighborhood) over a rowhome flip Brightwood (or similar neighborhood) relieving pressure on the latter. In some ways, it’s probably about 30 years too late, but better now than never.

Is it a loop? I’m not sure where you’re talking about. The people going that fast do it for like an hour at a time on a leve-ish surface. I’m not sure where that it is near Maryland.

Generally too crowded for that type of bike riding, at least during peak hours/weather. Those guys are going like a sustained 20-25 MPH. Beach Drive has more walkers, rollerblading, dogs, people of various ages, etc. A few people still try it and it’s not good. I love riding through Rock Creek but it’s just a different space than Haines Point.

It’s an idea worth exploring but probably doesn’t pencil out

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/green-new-deal-housing-testimony/

> Under these affordability requirements, the remaining third of households must pay a monthly rent of $4,386—$2,316 for the prevailing rent, and $2,070 for the necessary cross-subsidies. Households that could afford this rent correspond to those who earning 137 percent of Median Family Income. According to ACS data, renters with this level of household income are about 6 percent of all households and 13 percent of renter households.3 And at this rent, there are many competing units, as well as opportunities to own, making it likely that the units set aside for this group will have a hard time attracting tenants at such high rents, or won’t be able to command the type of rent that would generate sufficient operating subsidies to cover for the operating costs and debts from development costs.

> Therefore, it is unlikely that these projects can be financially sustainable without government subsidies, and therefore most likely they won’t be able to raise funds from debt markets without the full faith and credit of the District of Columbia, as proposed in the bill.

and it keeps going

That is an interesting choice. They will probably need a flashing neon light at the entrance to remind people that both the road and the cycle lane (which has walkers) are marked for cyclists.

If you go on the tour, they tell you he lived there for about three years and commuted to work everyday, mostly alone, on Old Bob. There is a statue of the pair.

> Some of the most crazy stuff has happened to me up there.

What has happened to you at the Howard Divinity School?

I only do rides for folks if we are both going to somewhere that isn’t bike/metro accessible.

These don’t really exist in DC, the rent is too high. I used to go to SSPT in Maryland which exactly what you’re looking for. Places like DMV Iron, The Shop, Tyson’s Playground, Exile, Ben A. Fits, Colosseum, etc. are all outside of the city.

> Those places probably shouldn't be car thoroughfares to begin with, they're an absolute nightmare to navigate even before extra restaurant tables were ever brought into the picture.

Extremely few people can park street side in any given area. I have never understood people who go to M Street, U Street, 14th Street or any of these major areas and plan on street parking. It seems so unreliable. It seems like a no-brainer to prioritize people enjoying the space, whether that be for increased sidewalk widths, streateries, or mini-parklets.

> you would think the city would love to enforce traffic laws to improve overall quality of life and create an inclusive space that reflects well on the nation’s capital. i just don’t get why they love the status quo.

DC can’t enforce tickets on cars with Maryland and Virginia plates and the governments there don’t care about the quality of life in DC, it’s a place to earn an income and bring back to their states. Neither political party wants to be the party responsible for allowing DC to collect millions in ticket revenue, they’d frame it as an equity issue for their residents.

source: from Maryland

We named a pet after a street. We were stumped about a name and decided to go through streets as an exercise just to think about some different names and when one name clicked, it clicked. And that’s how we named our cat Quackenbos (not really but you get the idea).

20001 is pretty big, too. Google Maps draws the polygon for 20001 to include 6th Street NW to stretch from Fairmont to Pennsylvania with a few carve outs for big buildings (I assume that have their own ZIP codes). 20001 covers homes as far north as the southeast corner of Irving/11th NW to Upper Senate Park.

Here?

550 Units or Residential/Hotel Combo: The Two Visions For a Mt. Vernon Triangle Parking Lot

Edit: Download Google Earth and look at downtown DC 20-25 years ago, there were far more surface lots

Noma is pretty big and it depends on which part you’d be at, some areas are great, and some are not. I’d like the wharf if I could afford it lol and I mean more than just rent, there’s no cheap eats nearby. Gallery Place is next to the stadium, has street performers, etc. it’s loud. Unless you’re a Caps season ticket holder, idk if there’s much of a reason to be there rather than another neighborhood nearby. None of these areas are gonna qualify for RPP (well, parts of Noma might but not in a new building) so if you bring a car, it will cost you hundreds of dollars to park and is honestly more of a hassle than really being useful unless you exit the city every weekend or something.

I saw someone this afternoon southbound on 14th slow down for a red light, it had just changed, and then gun it through the red just as cars and people had begun inching out. There was a bus and red light a few hundred feet away at the next intersection.