Yet Another Streetscape

Seventeenth Street between Massachusetts and New Hampshire Avenues will be one of the upcoming streetscape projects with construction scheduled to begin in fall 2008. Those interested in the project should consider attending the public meeting 7 p.m. on October 22 at Foundry Methodist Church.

Shortly after the P Street streetscape is complete, we will soon see the start of the 11th Street reconstruction project (spring 2008), the 17th Street streetscape (fall 2008), and the 14th Street streetscape. The ANC and DDOT assure us that these projects will amount to a little pain now for large gain later. I can't help but notice, however, that we'll have a lot of torn up streets and sidewalks next year.