The Stig
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Post by The Stig on Feb 12, 2012 11:17:49 GMT -5
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Post by rpn6 on Feb 13, 2012 16:48:52 GMT -5
Re: Town/Gown battle joined « Reply #195 on Feb 10, 2012, 11:55am »
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Feb 13, 2012 18:01:38 GMT -5
rpn6 -- the metro thing is a lot of an urban myth (one that has grown legs because it fits with the general disposition of many "anti" neighbors).
The reason that the orange/blue lines don't have a stop in Georgetown was primarily an engineering one, based on where the station would have been, on K Street, and issues having to do with the depth of the station, the placement near the river (and probably as a result, the potential for station flooding, or having to build the longest escalator in the entire system to get up to M street).
That doesn't change the fact that for certain folks in the neighborhood, anything that challenges their perception of Georgetown as a quaint village is considered bad.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Feb 16, 2012 12:30:29 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 16, 2012 14:28:54 GMT -5
The reason that the orange/blue lines don't have a stop in Georgetown was primarily an engineering one, based on where the station would have been, on K Street, and issues having to do with the depth of the station, the placement near the river (and probably as a result, the potential for station flooding, or having to build the longest escalator in the entire system to get up to M street). The Metro system was initially envisioned around getting intown workers to the suburbs. Georgetown (esp. in its more industrial, pre-restaurant days) was seen as having an insufficent population of commuters to justify a stop of its own.
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Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 16, 2012 16:54:32 GMT -5
Good read, thanks for posting. I particularly liked this bit: In the end, the campus plan conflict was a particularly Washingtonian kind of urban planning politics, more focused on saying no than anything else. Like so many other land use debates, it focuses less on what the District is—a big city that, among other things, has a lot of students in it—than on its most upscale residents’ various suburban fantasies about what sort of place they’d like it to be. No wonder campus politics are so acrimonious.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Feb 17, 2012 18:56:22 GMT -5
Let me guess: the neighbors are Editeded about the trash collection trucks crowding their streets and making noise.
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Post by hoyatables on Feb 18, 2012 11:12:09 GMT -5
Let me guess: the neighbors are Editeded about the trash collection trucks crowding their streets and making noise. Even better. They claim that the trash situation has somehow gotten worse because now students just carelessly throw trash on the street.
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Post by strummer8526 on Feb 18, 2012 11:19:04 GMT -5
Let me guess: the neighbors are Editeded about the trash collection trucks crowding their streets and making noise. Even better. They claim that the trash situation has somehow gotten worse because now students just carelessly throw trash on the street. Hahahahahaha. (I'm actually sitting alone in my office laughing at this.) Maybe this is what they want:
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Post by kchoya on Mar 27, 2012 8:32:39 GMT -5
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Post by RusskyHoya on Apr 1, 2012 21:01:48 GMT -5
From the Department of April Fool's Day Jokes that Sound a Little Too Believable: Evans eyes Georgetown for Redskins: A new plan from Councilmembers Jack Evans and Michael Brown would demolish Georgetown's campus and move it to Hill East. The current campus would become a practice facility for the Redskins. Some Georgetown neighbors immediately endorsed the plan, because the new facility will create almost no noise and attract very few people to the area.
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Post by hoyatables on Apr 2, 2012 23:03:41 GMT -5
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Post by derhoya on Jun 6, 2012 15:57:45 GMT -5
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Post by jgalt on Jun 7, 2012 0:32:16 GMT -5
Man do bureaucracies love adding more bureaucracy. Unless this committee supersedes the others and has actual power of approval then there is no point to it.
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Post by ksf42001 on Jun 7, 2012 13:31:42 GMT -5
I'll hold my excitement until they unveil a blue ribbon commission to tackle the issue
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Post by strummer8526 on Jun 7, 2012 15:23:22 GMT -5
I'll hold my excitement until they unveil a blue ribbon commission to tackle the issue Yeah, but to do that, you need a working group to discuss how the commission will be formed.
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Post by SSHoya on Jun 7, 2012 23:05:53 GMT -5
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Post by hoyatables on Jun 7, 2012 23:42:21 GMT -5
There are some errors in the WaPo article. No etiquette classes, for one -- just good ol' fashioned off-campus orientation.
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Post by jgalt on Jun 7, 2012 23:48:55 GMT -5
I know Altemus doesnt mean it in the way that it sounds, but if Geogetown was Howard, the ACLU, NAACP, and many more groups would be all over her for that line.
Anyway, sounds like the University capitulated on all the issues about the feel of the neighborhood in exchange for the ability to build what it needs. Personally I dont agree with that strategy, but I guess it works in the short term.
I dont like the stuff about cars. The only people I knew who parked a car on the streets for a long period actually needed it, for an internship or job. I knew one person who had a car for pleasure but they were plenty rich enough and just paid for a garage. Is the university the ones enforcing this ban or the city? How do you tell which cars are student cars?
I think in the long run the campus life will change greatly; and not all for the good. Only time will tell, but there will be somethings in this agreement that the university comes to regret.
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