3200 block of Water St.
September 2, 2010
Where the Circulator Goes Now
So, we can all basically agree that DDOT rolled out the Circulator in a pretty ham-handed fashion. Despite the fact that the takeover of the Blue Bus was well known to be coming, there was no official word coming from DDOT or the Circulator website (which, for what it’s worth, is registered to the Downtown Business District Corp., so perhaps they control it).
But more troubling is the sudden change of the old route. As you may be able to tell from above, the Union Station-Georgetown route now stays enters Georgetown on K St. before turning up Wisconsin towards M. This change has some benefits but a lot of drawbacks. (As previously discussed, the new route mirrors the old Blue Bus route but removes a couple stops including the stop in front of the Marriott).
The Benefits: It will get you to Georgetown a bit faster. M St. (particularly on weekends and during evening rush) gets pretty backed up going westbound. Staying on K will avoid that (although K St. itself, particularly just west of Washington Circle, can get bad itself). Second, some argue this will avoid the confusion an redundancy of running two Circulators along the same road. Keep reading →
September 2, 2010
The Morning Metropolitan
Waterfront by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Georgetown’s Snap expands to Adams Morgan.
- Georgetowner with controversial past will star as new real estate broker on HGTV reality show.
September 1, 2010
What Does Georgetown Taste Like?
Monday night at the ANC meeting, the BID presented its plans for the next upcoming Taste of Georgetown festival. Later on, the liquor license application of Lapis, a proposed Afghan restaurant, was discussed. Perhaps he was just hungry, but it got him wondering: what types of restaurants dominate Georgetown?
Being a nerdy wonk that he is, GM made a pie chart:
September 1, 2010
The Morning Metropolitan
Safeway by Mrmin123.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Interesting graph by GU grad student showing how much better government services we get nowadays compared with ten years ago, and how equitably those services are spread throughout the city. (Although given the economic and racial diversity of Ward 2 [it goes from Georgetown to Shaw] GM doesn’t think that Wards are necessarily always the best units of socioeconomic measurement).
- A much better explanation than GM’s rant the other day of why the Circulator change rollout was a communications failure.
August 31, 2010
ANC Round Up: Lots Of New Gin Joints Edition
Last night the ANC met for its September session. It was long and grueling. In fact, for the first time in over a year GM left before the end, and that was after three hours.
Notwithstanding his early exit, GM was witness to a lot of interesting news, and most of it had to do with new bars and restaurants.
But first off, let’s talk bikes:
Capital Bikeshare Stations
Chris Holbin of DDOT came before the ANC to present his agency’s plans on new Capital Bikeshare stations in Georgetown. As previously reported here, there will be four such stations in Georgetown. One of those stations was previously announced to be at the gates of the university. Unfortunately, as Holbin discussed last night, there isn’t enough space on the sidewalk for a station and DDOT hasn’t reached an agreement with the school to place it inside the gates.
So they went looking for a replacement site and settled on the north front of the Car Barn on Prospect St. The commissioners, who to their credit were in favor of the program, nonetheless were opposed to this new location. They argued that the immediate neighbors objected to the noise and activity it would create. Ironically, the one commissioner who actually lives across the street from the proposed location, Aaron Golds, didn’t object. But his lone vote against the resolution objecting to the location wasn’t enough. Said resolution called for DDOT to look for another space closer to the university or on the university’s grounds.
Frankly GM would love a station across the street, but never underestimate Georgetowners’ ability to look a gift horse in the mouth. Keep reading →
August 31, 2010
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- If you can’t wait for his ANC round up later, you can read GM’s live-tweeting of last night’s meeting. Sidenote: it’s a lot harder to live-tweet than GM thought it would be.
- Connections to the Georgetown Sexual Assaulter are being drawn to the recent Burleith sexual assault.
