Comments on: CP’s ‘Labyrinth’ and Route One Traffic http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/ Helping imagine a great college town for a great university Fri, 25 Jan 2013 04:03:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: David Daddio http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/comment-page-1/#comment-11048 David Daddio Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:22:26 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/#comment-11048 Yes, exactly what I'm talking about. Yes, exactly what I’m talking about.

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]]> By: Dan Margulies http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/comment-page-1/#comment-11041 Dan Margulies Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:30:31 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/#comment-11041 David, are you talking about the Riverdale town center, next to the MARC station? I would love to see that connection too. I live near there and bike to UMD daily; currently I ride on Route 1 for lack of an alterantive that doesn't double my distance. Route 1 is not, shall we say, "bike-friendly." David, are you talking about the Riverdale town center, next to the MARC station? I would love to see that connection too. I live near there and bike to UMD daily; currently I ride on Route 1 for lack of an alterantive that doesn’t double my distance. Route 1 is not, shall we say, “bike-friendly.”

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]]> By: David Daddio http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/comment-page-1/#comment-10938 David Daddio Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:13:37 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/#comment-10938 It will be quite an accomplishment if the trail makes it down to that small retail strip in Hyattsville. It will be quite an accomplishment if the trail makes it down to that small retail strip in Hyattsville.

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]]> By: Robert Catlin http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/comment-page-1/#comment-10922 Robert Catlin Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:11:39 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/#comment-10922 David is correct. Rhode Island Avenue has never existed directly north of where Paint Branch Parkway is now. The streetcar line was largely constructed from Hyattsville north, on a privately owned right-of-way, cut through what was largely wilderness/farms in 1898/1899. Even though our streetcar service ended in 1958, the owner of the right-of-way, O. Roy Chalk, refused to sell the land. In 1997, shortly before Mr. Chalk's death, the City purchased his property in College Park through a quit claim deed, because another party had acquired it in settlement of a long standing (35 year old)lawsuit. We then spent the next year having the property surveyed and doing title searches to try to figure out exactly what we had purchased. We still are in litigation over a small piece of the right-of-way in Berwyn. Mr. Chalk's former property in Hyattsville and Riverdale Park (with the exception of the old right-of-way on the now Caffritz property, just south of College Park)is now owned by WMATA, which is a another story for another time. To quote our Mayor: "Nothing is every easy in College Park, but we never quit trying." David is correct. Rhode Island Avenue has never existed directly north of where Paint Branch Parkway is now. The streetcar line was largely constructed from Hyattsville north, on a privately owned right-of-way, cut through what was largely wilderness/farms in 1898/1899. Even though our streetcar service ended in 1958, the owner of the right-of-way, O. Roy Chalk, refused to sell the land. In 1997, shortly before Mr. Chalk’s death, the City purchased his property in College Park through a quit claim deed, because another party had acquired it in settlement of a long standing (35 year old)lawsuit. We then spent the next year having the property surveyed and doing title searches to try to figure out exactly what we had purchased. We still are in litigation over a small piece of the right-of-way in Berwyn. Mr. Chalk’s former property in Hyattsville and Riverdale Park (with the exception of the old right-of-way on the now Caffritz property, just south of College Park)is now owned by WMATA, which is a another story for another time.

To quote our Mayor: “Nothing is every easy in College Park, but we never quit trying.”

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]]> By: Joseph Smith http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/comment-page-1/#comment-10914 Joseph Smith Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:01:30 +0000 http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/313/#comment-10914 Is it really "the parochial interest in reducing traffic on residential streets may be causing larger traffic headaches on Route 1" or the fact that Route 1 wasn't built to handle the amount of traffic it currently experiences? Further, I have to say that between the astonishing number of parked cars on the streets of my neighborhood and the amount of through traffic that we already get, I'm pleased as punch that we don't have more traffic using our streets as a bypass. Is it really “the parochial interest in reducing traffic on residential streets may be causing larger traffic headaches on Route 1″ or the fact that Route 1 wasn’t built to handle the amount of traffic it currently experiences?

Further, I have to say that between the astonishing number of parked cars on the streets of my neighborhood and the amount of through traffic that we already get, I’m pleased as punch that we don’t have more traffic using our streets as a bypass.

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