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Glover Park Wisconsin Avenue Project

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Meeting on 37th and Tunlaw Intersection Changes

The Glover Park ANC is hosting a public meeting to allow feedback and to answer questions.

Community members are welcome to attend a meeting Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. at Stoddert Elementary about proposed changes to the intersection of Tunlaw Road and 37th Street, as part of the Glover Park Wisconsin Avenue Project. The project, which continues to create traffic back-ups in the area, advances largely on-schedule as contractors widen sidewalks, create a center median and reduce the number of traffic lanes on Wisconsin Avenue. The project area runs from 34th Street and Wisconsin Avenue and ends at Massachusetts Avenue in Glover Park. It will reduce the number of traffic lanes from three to two during peak hours and from two to one during off-peak hours. Certain intersections will have left turn lanes.  Before construction began and since …

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

New Wisconsin Avenue Streetlights, An Improvement?

The new Washington Globe streetlights replace 'cobra' lights on Wisconsin Avenue

Gone are the highway-esque "cobra" style lights of Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park and in their stead are new Washington Globe lights. The lights are just one element of the Glover Park Wisconsin Avenue Project to upgrade the streetscape and change the lane configuration. Local blog 73rd & Walnut posted photos of the new streetlights. "First off, let me tell you that they are beautiful. Shiny and black," wrote Adriana Cordero. But Cordero admitted she was "puzzled" by the placement of one such new light (in the middle of the sidewalk, blocking pedestrians) and the size (they are as tall as the lights they replaced). The Glover Park Streetscape Project will widen sidewalks, create a center median and reduce the number of traffic lanes on …

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