<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Sorry folks for the number of emails. This has a minor correction. In the future will try and avoid this.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Edward Wendel <wendel.epw@gmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> November 11, 2020 at 3:30:02 PM EST<br><b>To:</b> Will Handsfield <will.handsfield@dc.gov>, Charles Allen <CAllen@dccouncil.us>, Chandler Jayarman <6b08@anc.dc.gov>, Stephen Holtzman <6b05@anc.dc.gov>, lincolnparkdc@lincolndc.info<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Traffic across Anacostia River</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">One minor correction. The traffic that gets off on the right after coming across the bridge over the Anacostia is funneled onto Kentucky Avenue at that point, which then crosses Independence Avenue and then continues north on 13th Street.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Edward Wendel <wendel.epw@gmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> November 11, 2020 at 3:21:07 PM EST<br><b>To:</b> Will Handsfield <will.handsfield@dc.gov><br><b>Cc:</b> Charles Allen <CAllen@dccouncil.us>, Chander Jayaraman <6b08@anc.dc.gov>, Steve Holtzman <6b05@anc.dc.gov>, lincolnparkdc@lincolndc.info<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Mock-up of crosswalk placed on Kentucky Avenue</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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. </span><br><span></span><br><span>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. </span><br><span></span><br><span>Again, I hope this sensible alternative can be given serious consideration. </span><br><span></span><br><span>- Ed Wendel</span><br><span>(79 years old and resident of 148 13th Street, S.E. for almost 50’years)</span><br><span></span><br><span>Sent from my iPhone</span></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></body></html>