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"Mr. Richard England said, "My reason for favoring the opening of Klingle Road is that it is so difficult to get from the area where I live, near American University, across Rock Creek Park to Columbia Heights.  I am a founding member of a team of volunteers who have created a public-private partnership to build new public schools at the corner of 16th and Irving Streets, NW.  We want to provide decent educational facilities for the children of thousands of recent immigrants who live in Columbia Heights. Being involved in this partnership requires frequent trips from my home to Columbia Heights.  At the present time, the only access is by way of Porter Street. Thus, I have to cross the dangerous and extremely slow intersection at Porter Street and Connecticut Avenue.  

Porter Street is a narrow, winding road running between Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenues. When Porter Street reaches Connecticut Avenue there are several obstacles that slow traffic: (1) people make either left or right turns on Connecticut Avenue; (2) there is a Metro bus stop on Porter Street at the intersection; (3) once one crosses Connecticut Avenue going eastward, there is further confusion by an immediate left turn for motorists going to the Broadmoor Apartments or going to the very busy Adas Israel Congregation. I should state that when either left or right-hand turns are made, or when a bus stops to drop off or pick up passengers, traffic is limited to only one congested lane going eastward on Porter Street.  

I hate to see the affluent sections of Northwest Washington so severely divided by both the presence of Rock Creek Park and the limitation of just one way of crossing the Park. Therefore, I think it will benefit the general public to reopen Klingle Road, and to improve the roadbed so that access is safe and rapid."