Flood walls at the waterfront by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- A New Yorker reminisces fondly of her Georgetown sublet during Christmastime.
- Bus route changes went into effect yesterday.
Monthly Archives: December 2009
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Scheele’s Update
It’s been relatively quiet on the Save Scheele’s front for a little while. GM started even to hear neighbors wonder whether the sale was being held up due to the ongoing credit crisis. Much of this speculation was based on the observation that construction appears to have ground to a complete halt at Marc Teren’s other project, the Williams-Addison house. So today into that speculative void stepped a fresh update from Save Scheele’s leader Mike Peabody.
He wrote to the supporters:
The contract between Marc Teren and the Scheele trust is on hold pending an appraisal of the property. After many months of negotiation between the community and Marc, we reached agreement for the continuation of the store for up to 25 years as long as it continues to be financially viable. In return we will be helping Marc renovate the store by paying him $75,000 which together with another $25000 for expenses we hope to raise from the community. We look forward to implementing that agreement if the contract between Marc and the Scheele’s goes forward and to a happy conclusion in the new year. Happy Holidays!
Congratulations goes out to Mike and all those that pitched in. While many questions remain over the future of the market and the role the Lee family will play in that, for now it is enough to celebrate that we will likely have a Scheele’s Market at least through the 30’s.
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Faz the Persian.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- GGW takes a look back at the northwest corner of Wisc. and M.
- Need some tasty seafood for your holiday parties? CRJ runs through Cannons offerings.
- GM’s out of town, but he’s hearing lots of complaints about sidewalks not being cleared. What’s been your experience?
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Photo by faz the persian.
Good morning Georetown, here’s the latest:
- Neighbors start to make noise about sidewalk shoveling.
- Roof collapses due to snow on house on 3000 block of Dumbarton. Thankfully no one was hurt since the house was being renovated at the time.
- Posts are going to be light for the rest of the week, GM is already on his Christmas break. Happy holidays!
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That’s It For D Series Changes
Last week GM detailed some changes to the D Series bus schedule. One thing that confused him was that WMATA had been contemplating changes for the D Series for quite some time. Yet the changes announced last week appeared to be part of a systemic not targeted change. The website for the D Series study is now essentially wiped of all mention of the D Series Study.
GM reached out to WMATA and got confirmation that the changes announced last week are indeed the end result of this year’s study. Following his inquiry a press release was issued clarifying the matter.
This is a little odd since the changes announced last week only partially resemble the changes considered last winter. Here’s how the two plans break-down:
The Original Plan:
- Extend the D2 to Union Station (this was pulled from consideration last March)
- Cut the D6 up into two pieces, with every third westbound D6 ending at Dupont
- Extend the D4 all the way from Ivy City to Sibley
- Small rerouting fixes
The Plan Announced Last Week
- Keep D2 the same, but stop the D1 at Federal Triangle
- Introduce two short trip D6 routes that split the overall route at Farragut
- The D3 no longer will go to Georgetown (it’s a reverse commuter route that primarily is designed to serve DCPS students), it will stop at Dupont
- The D4 will not reach Georgetown; it will end at Franklin Square
- D5 will extend its nighttime hours. WMATA is a little tricky about describing this. In the release they describe it as “Two additional westbound buses will be scheduled to depart at 3:20 and 6:55 p.m. from Farragut Square.” That would sound like they’ve added two new buses to the schedule. In fact they only added one more bus; they extended the schedule a little further more by extending the headways (i.e. the wait between buses).
- No short cuts announced Continue reading
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Wisconsin Ave. in snow by Scratch n Sniff.
Good morning Georgetown, hope you enjoyed the snow!
- If you work for the federal government, go back to bed.
- GM’s out of town, so he’ll leave the blow-by-blow Georgetown-in-the-snow reporting to Carol Joynt.
- Seriously, even if you don’t work for the federal government, you probably ought to just go back to bed.
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