| # | Name | Comments |
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| 351 | Mary Conley | I grew up a block away from where Klingle Road intersects with Woodley and know what a great connector it is to the other side of town. We don't need more bike paths, especially paid for by the entire city's dollars. We need more streets connecting the community that is Washington, D.C.
Klingle Road needs to be reopened and the city needs to stop giving in to the whims of the few, the wealthy and the well-connected. |
| 352 | Thomas Chused | I used Klingle Road all the time until .... Closing it for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many is not what governing fairly is all about. |
| 353 | William Harrop | We badly need more East/West links across the District, particularly important for transit to the
Washington Hospital Center. |
| 354 | Robert Wozniak | A reopened Klingle would alleviate current traffic on other nearby connector roads such as Macomb, where I live, and there is no reason why expert attention to enironmental concerns during reconstruction and proper maintenance of a reopened road cannot meet "green" concerns. |
| 355 | Robert Wozniak | A reopened Klingle would alleviate current traffic on other nearby connector roads such as Macomb, where I live, and there is no reason why expert attention to enironmental concerns during reconstruction and proper maintenance of a reopened road cannot meet "green" concerns. |
| 356 | Susan G. Carr | This city is starved for east-west roadways. |
| 357 | Leila | |
| 358 | Pat Armbruster | I urge the council members to re think the costs of a bike path as compared to a road. The value to all the residents of apartments and homes surrounding this section of roadway. A bike path would landlock us in the event of major fire or disaster it is curcial for this section to be opened for emergency services and utilities companies to
provide services prperly. |
| 359 | Anne T Henderson | Please re-open this road, it's one of the few E-W routes in that part of the city and will relieve congestion on other roads. |
| 360 | Elizabeth Hickey | Every time it looks as if Klingle will be repaired and re-opened, something comes out of the blue and stops it. I am stunned by Mary Cheh's action.
What I want to know is who lives in the Klingle Road neighborhood that has such power. I would sure like to have the traffic stopped on my street, but nobody will even enforce keeping huge trucks and tour buses off of it.
If everyone is so concerned about the environment, why do they keep approving development that is clearly not environmentally friendly, e. g., the huge houses at Davenport between Linnean and Broad Branch Road, and the monstrous apartment houses at Tilden and Connecticut.
Lasly, I will be more convinced of the DC Council's commitment to making Washington a "walking city" when they give up their parking privileges. What hyprocrisy! |
| 361 | laurie ballenger | |
| 362 | Bill Bentley | OPEN KLINGLE ROAD AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE! |
| 363 | Gonzalo Corzo | This is a road that was built for residents of this city, not a neighborhood. |
| 364 | Jeff Dygert | This is an important cross-town artery that serves hospitals and public safety facilities on either end. It would be a gross failure of the council's responsibility to protect residents' safety to keep this closed and continue to shunt traffic onto Porter Street, which was not designed to carry the volume of traffic that it presently must accommodate. Our elected representatives should not choose to abandon this vital piece of the District's fragile and interconnected infrastructure -- particularly in this time of rising energy costs, when free-flowing and efficient transportation is so important to help reduce the carbon output caused by the traffic that currently on Porter Street. |
| 365 | Anonymous | |
| 366 | Jackie Bynoe | this road should have been opened years ago! Please reopen this public road.
Thank You |
| 367 | Jackie Bynoe | this road should have been opened years ago! Please reopen this public road.
Thank You |
| 368 | KATHLEEN FRANK | As a taxpayer and resident of DC, I object to the removal of any exisiting public roads and streets from the current inventory. I pay my taxes so that the city can maintain the roads in good operating condition. Closing roads and/or converting them to bike paths is not what DC taxpayers expect from their government, especially considering the traffic congestion. We need every road--repaired and in good operating condition. |
| 369 | Steven Washington | Keeping Klingle Road closed inconveniences everyone in NW DC, particularly those of us who travel across town in upper DC on a regular basis. Is this really for the added pleasure of a handful of moneyed residents? It's an absurd waste of a perfectly useful, even important, public access route that should be enjoyed and utilized by all DC taxpayers. |
| 370 | Robert L. Church | Klingle Rd is a long establish connection between Rock Creek Park and the neighborhoods to the west. It should be re-opened. |
| 371 | Marlene Church | |
| 372 | alex maxa | |
| 373 | Margaret W. Dawson | |
| 374 | Ellen Wormser | |
| 375 | Arthur Frank | We want to create linkages in the city, not obstacles. Rebuild Klingle Road. |
| 376 | Bill Taylor | This is a real shame. Either open the road again or make it a bike path or something, but don't leave it closed off for no appartent reason. |
| 377 | Alan Jacobsen | Please open Klingle Road. It's not a private park for Section 3 people to walk their dog!!! |
| 378 | Jutta Lewis | Please consider the legal and financial implications to the city as well as the practical consequences for a large number of your constituents in wards 1, 3, and 4. This is not a minor issue. |
| 379 | Carla Flug | Klingle Road was originally designed and served, until it's closing by private interests, as an essential connection into and out of Rock Creek Park. It had greatly alleviated traffic congestion on Connecticut Avenue south of Nebraska Avenue.
Mary Cheh's amendment to convert it into a bike/hike path includes plans that will cost DC many times more than to restore it for cross Park traffic, will hamper emergency vehicle access to and through the area, and does great injury to her own Ward 3 constituency [as well as Wards 2, 4, and 5] since Brandywine Street, which passes within three houses from her own, suffers a huge influx of commuter traffic out of the Park which would otherwise be shared with Klingle Road.
Specious private-interest arguments to close Klingle have countered reason for 20 years. It's time to restore Klingle Road to its original and essential function of facilitating traffic through and across Rock Creek Park. |
| 380 | Anonymous | Open the road. the majority of people want it opened! |
| 381 | Anonymous | Open the road. the majority of people want it opened! |
| 382 | Patricia Hahn | I strongly support the re-opening of Klingle Road. I live right next to Porter Street and even if only small percentage of the traffic on Porter uses Klingle, it will make a big difference in the noise and traffic on Porter. I can't understand what convinced the DC Council to take a U-turn on this issue! |
| 383 | Jane S. Jones | The land was donated with the caveat that it be used for a road. That bequest should be honored. And the environment will be helped by less polution from idling cars on the other road back-ups currently happenng now. |
| 384 | Joy Midman | Absolutely. Saving money, lives and preserving the parkland. Cutting down on pollution and traffic.
OPEN KLINGLE ROAD |
| 385 | Joy MIdman | |
| 386 | Daniel Maughan | |
| 387 | Laurie and Adam Sieminski | Please reopen Klingle Road--there are so few ways to cross the Park that every open road will help ease the traffic on the others. Klingle Road should have reopened many years ago. |
| 388 | Anonymous | |
| 389 | James Osteen | Keep Klingle Road open for the benefit of all DC residents not just the local neighborhood. |
| 390 | Florence Hart | I would like to add my name to this petition as restoring Klingle Rd. will have a positive effect on traffic patterns in the District. |
| 391 | James Nozar | |
| 392 | Louise Wides | To close Klingle Road is to give the local citizens a preserved space for walking and biking--at an enormous expense to the city. In effect, it is transferring wealth from average taxoaters to the rich. This is the kind of thing Republicans (at national level) do all the time. I live in Ward 3. I urge my council member and the members at large to heed my concern--and not to do the "George Bush" thing. We all will remember their votes.
Louise Wides |
| 393 | Jerry Bauer | |
| 394 | Robert L. Church | Klingle Road is a historically and economically important road. It should be reopened as soon as practicable. |
| 395 | gerry fitzgerald | |
| 396 | gerry fitzgerald | |
| 397 | Allen Goldberg | |
| 398 | Anonymous | |
| 399 | Anonymous | Klingle Road should be open to benefit the broader community instead of the interests of the few.
Thank you for your consideration. |
| 400 | Eric Hompe | We need Klingle Road to be opened. It's our road! |