VOTE: Pennsylvania Ave is getting a makeover

[AmBlue]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/pennsylvania-avenue-dc-changes-feedback/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_ideas

Pennsylvania Avenue NW — a corridor synonymous with the power and prestige of Washington — is overdue for a makeover. While its image evokes the grandeur of presidential inaugural parades, the mile-long stretch between the White House and the Capitol has also hosted everything from Black Lives Matter demonstrations and women’s suffrage protests to BBQ festivals and a Wonder Woman movie set. As the nation emerges from the pandemic, transforming this symbolic boulevard codifies the new role America’s “main streets” can play in bringing people together.

The National Capital Planning Commission, the federal agency in charge of coming up with the biggest overhaul of the route in half a century, has been busy brainstorming ideas and soliciting public input. Their goal is to create a greener and livelier route — one they are calling an “Avenue as a Venue."

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Further down the article are the different plans under consideration and a spot to vote for your preference. Go vote!!

[Ocelot II]

1. TFG says it's filthy, covered with graffiti and strewn with trash and dead bodies.

[bottomofthehill]

2. I may catch some heat here but

They should mostly leave it alone and clean it up. They have already created enough problems with bike lanes, no turns and general confusion. DC is a city with many guests. Many of them have no understanding of how to navigate the mess that is now PA Ave. I use Independence Ave on the opposite side of rhe National Mall every chance I get. The chit has not managed to fuck that up yet!
Years ago, after the Oklahoma City bombing, there was a proposal to re-rout traffic around the capitol on Independence and Constitution. It was fought by the City as it would destroy the dead doc patterns.