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the petiton to the Department of Public Works
and the District of Columbia
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“Any five-year-old would know that the best streetscape
scheme for Georgetown would be the one with wider sidewalks, which is
also the one that provides the soil conditions for trees to really grow.
Why the community is not pressing the District Department of Transit (DDOT)
to focus on this scheme is a mystery. Work sequences certainly could be
adjusted to revise plans and the extra $2-3 million it would cost would
hardly be noticed in the overall streetscape utility package, which is
well over $40 million.”
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Lee and Liu Architects representative
Consultant to WMATA and DDOT for
The Georgetown Project |
“Ideally, more space should be allocated to the pedestrians, particularly
on these crowded thoroughfares in the historic district. We hope this
would continue to be studied and to be implemented at the next available
opportunity.”
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J. Carter Brown
Former Chairman, Commission of Fine Arts
in a letter to DDOT |
“I really think, at this point in time, it is a waste
of $10 or $15 million dollars to do this project. I really think (that)
five years from now, with the way Georgetown is being improved commercially
and the re-birth of the commercial area, we are going to go back and
say this was not a sufficient and incremental improvement in the pedestrian
experience to have spent that much money on.
“I respectfully and regrettably say, for all this
excellent work we are doing – if we don’t widen the sidewalks, it’s
a waste of money.
“I’m saying why would you come back later and
do the study rather than put this $10 million dollar expenditure on hold?”
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Mary Oehrlein, FAIA
Chairperson, Old Georgetown Board |
“One key focus of this work [August 29, 2001 Gorove/Slade Associates traffic
study] was on traffic operations on M Street. The conclusion of that work
was that the vehicle traffic and parking lanes can be reduced from six
to five, and the sidewalks can be widened from eleven feet to sixteen
feet through most of Georgetown… Another benefit of this proposal is that
it would maintain the capacity of M Street to move vehicular traffic while
increasing the capacity of the street to move pedestrians.”
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Louis Slade
Gorove/Slade Associates
District DOT Traffic and Parking Consultants |
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