[RP TownTalk] Purple Line

[Nina Faye]

The large physical dividers on East West Hwy. had to be installed because of the poor planning and design of the entire area.  People got off the Metro and walked across East West through traffic mid block at all hours with small children in tow; then returned to the Metro the same way.  The fence was installed for safety.  People tore it down.  A strong fence was installed for safety.  The bridge was finally installed; something like the bridge should have been installed as part of the original Metro area design.Town Center was poorly conceived, poorly planned, with no reasonable parking.  The fence and/or bridge and Town Center are totally unrelated.  No one wanted to walk across East West to get to Town Center or to drive to Town Center with no place to park.  I live within walking distance of all of this.  I have very rarely walked over to that area in the 27 years we have lived here.  I have walked to downtown Hyattsville when the spirit moves or even to downtown Riverdale Park.  Whatever the plan and arguments for the Purple Line, the East West argument is totally specious.

      From: Jonathan Ebbeler <jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com>
 To: TownTalk <TownTalk at riverdale-park.org> 
 Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 2:57 PM
 Subject: [RP TownTalk] Purple Line
   
 <!--#yiv5113555606 _filtered #yiv5113555606 {font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv5113555606 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}#yiv5113555606 #yiv5113555606 p.yiv5113555606MsoNormal, #yiv5113555606 li.yiv5113555606MsoNormal, #yiv5113555606 div.yiv5113555606MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;}#yiv5113555606 a:link, #yiv5113555606 span.yiv5113555606MsoHyperlink {color:#0563C1;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv5113555606 a:visited, #yiv5113555606 span.yiv5113555606MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:#954F72;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv5113555606 span.yiv5113555606EmailStyle17 {font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;color:windowtext;}#yiv5113555606 .yiv5113555606MsoChpDefault {font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;} _filtered #yiv5113555606 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}#yiv5113555606 div.yiv5113555606WordSection1 {}-->All – It is my opinion that the ‘wall’ proposed will be horrendously bad for the Kenilworth Corridor.  This opinion is shared by the town’s Urban Planning consultant Paul Mortensen who guided us through the Cafrtiz development.  When thinking about consequences think about E-W Highway decades ago.  It will be akin to that.  Large physical dividers like the EW-Highway bridge that rendered Town Center largely vacant for decades and the wall proposed by the Purple Line will unlikely be a positive outcome for the town.      A full list of scope changes can be found here (as of 6/29/2015): http://media.nbcwashington.com/documents/Purple+Line+Scope+Changes.pdf    JWE    
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