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Our neighbor and councilmember, Jack Evans, was just elected as chair to the Metro board. In an interview with WTOP about his new position, Evans stated that he didn’t take Metro regularly (or at all, it seems) because he lives in Georgetown. When the reporter pointed out the 30-series buses, Evans said he’d try it out. Progress! But there are even more options, GM’s here to spell them out.

Jack lives on the 3100 block of P St. This is actually a fairly well placed location to start a trip to either his council chambers at the Wilson Building or the Metro office building at Judiciary Square. Here are the best options for Jack:

Thirty Series

As the reporter pointed out, the 30-series bus picks up a block from Jack’s house and goes literally to the front door of the Wilson Building. This is obviously a very good option. But the 30-series can sometimes be really crowded. Plus you have to make sure the bus goes all the way to the Wilson Building. The 31 bus, for instance, only goes to Foggy Bottom. And from downtown, the 37 skips around Georgetown entirely on its trip up to Friendship Heights.

All in all, though, it’s a solid option. But there are always possibilities of tie ups somewhere along the line, so it’s good to have other options available. Continue reading →

Photo by Nyja Morris.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice Q&A Cafe interview with Jack Evans.
• Some nice blizzard pics.

3200 block of O St.

This week on Now and a Long Time Ago, GM stops by M St. circa 1900. Nowadays, M St. is almost entirely commercial, but from the time it was first laid-out, significants parts of the street were taken up by homes. What you see above was one of those original residential homes.

The building, located at 3250 M St., was built in 1802. The most striking feature about it, as described in Capital Losses, was it’s gambrel shaped roof (think how barn roofs are shaped) with dormers popping out the side its steep shape. According to James Goode, author of Capital Losses, even when the building was built it was of an anachronistic style. This sort of design was more popular in the 17th century, not the turn of the 19th. Apparently Georgetown was likely dotted with homes like this, but most were torn down long before photography came around. Continue reading →

Photo by Nyja Morris.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Arlington approved to provide financial support to the gondola study, giving it enough for the study to begin.
• GM heard that a serial burglar who had targeted Georgetown was arrested. Not much more details than that right now. (You should still prolly lock your doors).

3500 block of Water St.

Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article on an alarming story involving a dentist allegedly committing sexual assault on his patient. It’s a pretty intense story, and what it definitely didn’t need was even more “spice”, yet that’s what the author added when he tried to say it happened in Georgetown.

The dentist in question lives in Rockville, was trained at the University of Maryland and has his office at 2311 M St. That address is definitely not in Georgetown. Nothing about this guy is associated with Georgetown. Yet the headline of the Post article boldly states “Georgetown Dentist Charged with Sexually Assaulting Patient During Procedure”. Continue reading →

Photo by LaunchOurRocket.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Someone drove into the canal.
• Inside the very-soon-to-open-after-a-really-unusually-long-wait Bearded Papas.

3200 block of Volta Pl.