Comments for “Palisades Trolley Trail & Foundry Trestle Feasibility Study”
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People who live in Georgetown are concerned about bike traffic on prospect. You should make sure to take their concerns into account during your planning, too.
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There is a homeless camp here. Lots of trash. A pedestrian walkway would make this unattractive for homeless.
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There is a homeless camp here. Lots of trash. Pan handling at the intersection of Foxhall and Canal Roads.
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Trail can end at the "hoya saxa" sign and then direct folks either to walk down to Canal Road or onto GU campus at this cross walk.
This would be a fantastic improvement to the currently totally unsafe sidewalk on Canal Road.
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Need to get rid of the fence preventing people from walking under the trestle bridge. I can't use the Glover Archbold Park trail because it has been closed off for almost two years. I used to use that trail at least once a week.
This is going to be a multi-year project and you need to put in place scaffolding to protect people walking under the bridge, not close off the trail under the bridge. Not fair to people who use the NPS trail.
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No lighting at all, please!
The lights would shine directly into family rooms on Sherier Place side and into bedrooms on second floors of houses on Dorsett
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Drainage problems downhill toward Dorsett are severe. Please fix the drainage
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Access to the trolley path is badly eroded to the downhill side at this point. People pull pickets off neighboring fence trying to make their way uphill. Eroded slope needs to be corrected.
Lots of drainage issues to all downhill properties along this stretch. Please redesign drainage to protect downhill properties!
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are the people commenting here even aware of this area? They can bike on the trail now, if they bother to have an all terrain bike. Why are people so stuck up and spoiled? Lots of people walk dogs here. all the time. The dogs are not going to move out of the way of the bicyclers nor should they. This should be land for the local community and not for commuters from Maryland.
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Makes no sense. I can walk from one area to another already. there is no need for a connector, except for people who are too stupid to try. I live in the Palisades because of the peasant park views and walks along the cliffs. If these walks are eliminated in the name of over-concreting the world and crazed bicyclists, there probably will be conflicts between those crazies and the rest of us.
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I walk quietly morning and evening on these walkways several days a week, precisely because they are not paved. If I had to compete with bicyclers, I would become very angry at them and would refuse to move out of the way for them. It's not fair in that there are already many paved concrete streets, and too few pleasant grass and dirt walkways.
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Most of the residents in this neighborhood do not have driveways and have to park on the street. With trail heads here, street parking would be taken up by recreational bikers and commuters and residents would not be able to park close to their homes. Weekends could be a mess.
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This is a very narrow street that is already full of the parked cars of residents, commuters, and people who work at the businesses nearby. A trailhead here would add to the tricky congestion of this street during morning and afternoon school drop off hours and there would be no parking for bikers, which would spill over into the neighboring streets.
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This is the ideal place for an access point. It’s a large public space with easy access to the trail.
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The comment about “a fool thinking someone would park here to access the trail” is flat-out wrong and misinformed. Non-residents park here all the time to access the trail. They park illegally and they litter. There are access points directly across the street in the public area/park. Yet, people use Potomac & Q as a trail head.
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Water drainage study needed.
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Environment and water drainage surveys are critical in the process. Must-do to move forward.
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Primarily, this is a water drainage issue. I also abut the trail and see wholehearted folks walking it everyday, at all times of day. Mud and uncontrollable weather are the real issues for "pavers".
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There is a dirt trail that provides access to area residents, and animals, and is used daily. They cross the creek using their feet.
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There is no "gap" in existing trail. "Appeasing" neighbors is better titled community support.
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Water drainage issues are cause and we need environment/water studies - and fixes - by DC Gov. for healthier long-term investment/sustainability.
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Disagree strongly with this being a beneficial Capitol BikeShare docking station location. This neighborhood is a small contained space that cannot safely support increased traffic. Capitol Bike Share stations are intended for placment in high volume public areas not residential neighborhoods.
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The paved path from Foxhall to Key Bridge is too narrow for bikes or pedestrians to go in both directions. The traffic on Canal Road is right next to this path so there is no room for error. This path should be widened by cutting further into the embankment. Also the traffic light on Canal Road at the entrance to Georgetown University is positioned so that a bicyclist cannot see the traffic that may be advancing toward him from the east. The proposed path over the trolley trestle would provide a better alternative to this path.
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Unsafe crossing for bikes at this point. Must walk bike across Canal Road here to proceed on the north side toward Key Bridge.
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Fix the bridge! Existing foot options to Georgetown are inadequate and include:
- Descend hill and go down canal road sidewalk (narrow with high traffic going by at speed)
- Go to Cap. Crescent Trail/canal towpath (requires descending to river level and then climbing back up...not impossible but not convenient)
- Go north to Reservoir Road (significant increase in distance).Utilizing the bridge as part of this trail will make provide for a flat, low-stress access route direct to Georgetown and the M Street Corridor for residents from the palisades down to Foxhall Village. This should have been done long ago.
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