As a long-time Cleveland Park resident, I fully support the re-opening of Klingle Road.

It was built for a reason, and should be reopened. I don't care if it's been 17 years since it was closed for a sewer main break, or that traffic has 're-routed' itself.

The fact of the matter is that it is an environmental issue, and most of the residents of Ward 3 and surrounding communities want it reopened. A very vocal minority of nimby residents oppose the legitimate and proper use of this city street.

Ms. Cheh would do well to listen to the many voices (heard and unheard) calling for this fight to be over.

It is time to put the 'Road' back in Klingle Road.

To the contrary, I believe we should continue to close roads in DC. I would like North Capitol and Michigan Avenues closed starting immediately. It would do wonders for the neighborhood, not to mention my property value. Please close all the roads now!

Klingle Road should be closed to motor vehicles only. It should be reconstructed as a hiking-biking-bridal road.

We can fight obesity by encouraging adolescents to ride their bikes to school, instead of having their parents drive them.

Episcopalian equestrians can go to the Cathedral every Sunday on horseback.

So, rebuild Klingle Road, but close it to motors. This would be consistent with the original gift, which referred to a 'highway'.

Excuse me. I mispelled 'bridle'.

Episcopalian equestrians, there is a place waiting for you in hell. Allah wants a motorway. Get out of the way and opent the road for Allah has decreed it so!

I am a Cleveland Park resident and would like to express my views on the closing of Klingle Road. Years ago, we had secret meetings among our neighbors to plan for strategy to keep this road closed. We have been successful thus far in bamboozeling our fellow taxpaying citizens into believing we need a nature trail to keep unwanted traffic from traversing the neighborhood. Since then, our property values have skyrocketed and we are free of the noise and undesirable rabble, at your expense. Please leave us be, and we will not tread on any of your local plans.

Water Bug, you are a traitor to the local clan. We pay dearly to keep this road closed with our unofficial keep the road closed tax to certain individuals. Now shut up or we'll have to take dastardly measure to exterminate you!

We don't want you in OUR neighborhood. It's as simple as that! Now get that through your thick numpty skulls and leave us alone!

Sincerely,

Basil Whetterburn, III
CWWKRC President

Basil, people like you make me sick. When Obama becomes president, I hope he takes this issue under his belt to make sure all DC taxpayers are treated fairly, especially with regard to use of public land, and we come to an equitable solution. Power to the people. "Numpty" my ass!

Noreen O'Malley
President
PETT

The Whetterburn family has been a scourge here in DC for centuries. Most recently, they counseled Jack Kent Cook on how to close a public alley for his own purposes and get away with it.

Basil was in my class at St. Albin's back in the '30s. He cheated regularly, but the teachers let him get away with it because his dad was good buddies with J. Edgar Hoover.

Reggie! It is good to see you are still around, my old friend. Remember when we took care of old Hoover at GSA, after he requested all that marble for the outside of his new building on Penn Ave? Hee hee hee. He got none, even after he died there is still none. We toasted that one all night long.

I must say, this is one very strange set of comments on the board today! Opinions like "hoorah for Cheh," or "what does she know?" just seem so beside the point. What does one do to get in on the action here?!

Strange brew, please do sit down and enjoy a cocktail. We are having a block party her on our very own Klingle Road.

Waiter, Johnny Walker Black on the rocks!

I think at this juncture, we should move on to the more pressing issues in the city.

Ms. Cheh was up front in her campaign comments that she favored the road being closed. She was still elected with huge majority. Overall, even if many disagree with her on this issue, she still has plenty of support on it and on balance, she is the best Councilmember the ward has seen.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Laurie Collins been a resident of Cleveland/Woodley Park for the past few years? Kinda odd that the head of a Mount Pleasant neighborhood group doesn't live in Mount Pleasant.

It's over. Klingle Road is closed. It's not going to be a hiker/biker path either, no matter how much Cheh says. There's no money to pay for the massive amount of remediation and upkeep required for such a path. Klingle Road will look much the same way in 5 years as it does now.

"Klingle Road will look much the same way in 5 years as it does now."

Cheers!

Boola Boola!

http://research.yale.edu/gleeclub/yalesongs.html

Huuurah! Hee hee, the District employs a bunch of chumps!

Ooooo, did I say "chumps"? I meant "champs"!

"It was built for a reason, and should be reopened.."

Excellent argument, and a great *real* example of "Begging the Question". Of course, this kind of skates over the fact that Klingle Road was never re-opened for a reason, too. Those two reasons are what give us the argument we're currently having.

Now, if we could just re-open the internment camps for Japanese-Americans. After all, they were built for a reason...

"This hiker-biker trail is such a myth. It's way too steep!"

Good stuff. I was lucky enough to enjoy commuting up Klingle ex-Road most mornings when I lived in Adams Morgan and worked in Georgetown. So glad to see some of this overbuilt infrastructure from the "Age of the Automobile" starting to fade away. Hopefully we can use the money for more sane projects..

Thanks to Mary (we will agree to disagree) Cheh---Look out Porter Street

Without Klingle Road:

As a part of the transportation study, an analysis was conducted to determine various improvements required at the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street and under the no build scenario to achieve an acceptable level of traffic operation.

Results indicated that the eastbound approach of Porter Street needs to be WIDENED to accommodate an ADDITIONAL TWO THROUGH LANES, while an ADDITIONAL through lane is needed in the westbound direction as well.

Way to go Ms. Cheh. And she denies not caring about the people who live on Porter Street??

LC, my good man (or woman), I respectfully disagree because your projections are based in the distant past. As ibc correctly points out above, the "Age of the Automobile" is over. We will be riding horsies soon, and according to Solo Owl, it is a holy path to take!

Have another Scotch.

I loved that road. It saved time and gas, and had a distinctive "cooling" effect as you descended towards the park. The engineering aspects of design and repair are elementary. The District always opted for a quick fix.

Obviously, the "concerned citizens" in Cleveland Park want want is best in light of their own selfish interests. However, this is not the country. We live in a city, and this was a well used road, and its use remains deserved for all the city's citizens.

By the way, Basil and I were classmates in grade school. During the late '20s and early 30's, I regularly beat the crap out of him and sent him home to his mommy crying.

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