ANC Preview: Drag Story Hour

The ANC is meeting for its May session next Monday night at 6:30 at Georgetown Visitation (Zoom option here). The full agenda is below, but here are a couple interesting items:

One item is to discuss the problem of drag racing along Water and K St. by the waterfront. This is a perennial problem, whereby racers show up late at night and do their thing. Their thing being illegal car racing with incredibly loud cars. The commission will be considering a resolution aimed at getting DDOT and MPD to solve the problem.

Speaking of drag strips, another item on the agenda will discuss a proposal to remove the rush-hour lane reversals from Rock Creek Parkway. NPS is proposing to do so primarily for safety reasons and because they concluded that it would not have significant detrimental impacts on traffic. (The argument is basically that while there will be fewer lanes for cars going in the rush hour direction [i.e. 4->2], there will be infinitely more lanes [i.e. 0->2] going in the reverse directions and so the spillover traffic from the fewer lanes will be at least partially offset by drivers shifting to Rock Creek from the side roads because they’re going in the other direction and can now use Rock Creek when they couldn’t before).

If that interests you, join the meeting and have your say!

Here is the full agenda:

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  1. georgetowncitizen

    A simple (hopefully not simple-minded) solution to drag racing along K and Water Streets: speed bumps (and they’re good 24/7 with no police overtime cost :-).

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