Two Alleys to Get $300k and 18-month Long Re-design
Evans, DDOT promise the R Street alleys will get their long overdue re-design this year.
Two alleys that run behind homes located on R Street, 31st Street and 32nd Street will get a complete redesign, likely using up all the the Ward 2 monies for street alleys in the process. The alleys are prone to flooding, recurring potholes, poor drainage and have been the bane of some residents' existence for upwards of 45 years. Martha Johns, whose home backs onto the R Street alley, joked that she's been "going fishing" in that alley since she first moved there 45 years ago. Though the project has in the past received promises that it would be included in the District Department of Transportation list of Ward 2 projects and that it would be budgeted for, nothing has come of it in the past, several neighbors and Advisory Neighborhood …
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