[Lincolnparkdc] Fwd: Mock-up of crosswalk placed on Kentucky Avenue

[Edward Wendel]

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> From: Edward Wendel <wendel.epw at gmail.com>
> Date: November 11, 2020 at 3:21:07 PM EST
> To: Will Handsfield <will.handsfield at dc.gov>
> Cc: Charles Allen <CAllen at dccouncil.us>, Chander Jayaraman <6b08 at anc.dc.gov>, Steve Holtzman <6b05 at anc.dc.gov>, lincolnparkdc at lincolndc.info
> Subject: Mock-up of crosswalk placed on Kentucky Avenue
> 
> Hello Will - I sent the mock-up referred in this note to a little while ago and this is the explanatory email that goes with it. Having computer problems which accounts for sending these separately. Had sent both earlier in one document, but someone indicated they could not open it or print was too small. So this is just to be sure.
> 
> The mock-up is for an alternative cross-walk going WEST from the corner of Kentucky Avenue, connecting with the island and then the existing sidewalk running along the Independence Avenue side of the Island.  This was one of three options you had mentioned for the proposed crosswalk.  The mock-up was done by another participant on the zoom call the other night, Jonathan Berlin. I thank him for helping to visualize this proposal.
> 
> This proposal avoids a new crosswalk on 13th Street, S.E. That would be crossed by probably 90 percent of the vehicular traffic (my visual estimate but one I believe is close to an accurate estimate) going north on Kentucky Avenue from the south until it crosses Independence Avenue and then proceeds onto the 100 block of 13th Street, S.E.
> 
> I would note again that this Kentucky Avenue/100 block of 13th Street route has always been a major carrier of traffic heading north from the southern part of the Hill.  Perhaps even more important it also carries significant Maryland commuter traffic as well as far SE residents, who cross the bridge over the Anacostia River on Pennsylvania Avenue and then proceed into the 100 block of 13th Street, S.E.  They use this route as they head to NE and NW DC.  It has always been this way.  All of this traffic will bear down on the proposed 13th Street crosswalk and anyone who tries to cross it.  As said before - a tragedy waiting to happen.  
> 
> Instead the proposed crosswalk shown in the mock-up, is placed on the much less traveled 100 block of Kentucky Avenue, in a location that is not in front of any houses.  
> 
> Again, I hope this sensible alternative can be given serious consideration. 
> 
> - Ed Wendel
> (79 years old and resident of 148 13th Street, S.E. for almost 50’years)
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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