Here's an article from the Post that quotes people from a few of H Street's businesses on the legacy of Anthony Williams and what the District looks like today.
[Sorry if you saw this post earlier and it looked funky and had lots of mispellings. I was experiencing a problem with Blogger and I couldn't fix it.]
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I don't see any link in the post. More Blogger problems?
Chris
Yeah, sorry. It's a bit buggy today.
My suspicion from reading the article was that one of the reporters bylined is a local....
DC lost more people of every income bracket during the last Barry administration, than during both William terms.
Barry put the schools, public housing and everything else but the libraries into court receivership. DC could not pay it's bills.I soon we forget when we couldn't get our trash picked up.
Williams retirement is too bad for H Street. I fear the Great Streets Initative with so much promise and cash for the area might get siphoned off to pay for the wild campaign promises we are already hearing.
Does anyone know which of the candidate are H Street friendly?
I heard Fenty target some areas and H Street was not on his list.
On an unrelated note, does anyone know anything about a possible metro stop at benning and H?
A metro stop sounds like a pipe dream. They do, however, want to run light rail along there.
In the proposed new blue line in 2002 there were stops along H Street. However, that concept plan was dropped due to cost of underground construction. Instead DC DDOT has pushed light rail-streetcar.
Two, where are the chic restaurants on H Street that are mentioned in the article?
I like R&B but a BBQ sandwich does not make a chic restaurant. Same with bad service and execution at Phish Tea--high prices, but chic?
At the unveiling of the plans for the starburst plaza last week, some residents that lived down Benning Rd. were asking whether DDOT could build the possible H Street line as a subway line instead of streetcars. Someone from DDOT suggested that a subway line was financially out of reach, but an above-ground stop somewhere down Benning Road, like the new New York Ave. stop, might be possible if residents coalesced in asking for it. However, it didn't sound like there were plans for a Benning Rd. metro stop in the foreseeable future.
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