Yes, I have been commuting home to Brookland for 20 years down Rhode Island Ave going east in the afternoons/evenings. There is no need to turn left on Reed Street at this location. Drivers can turn left before or after this location.

There are a number of other traffic flow measures that can be made along Rhode Island Avenue that could be implemented -- including creating places for busses to pull off of the road when stopping (when space allows).
If it is possible, there also needs to be a left turn lane from east bound Rhode Island to 12th Street N. This is the entrance to a commercial zone and should be more accessible than other streets from Rhode Island Ave.
I suggested all of these things when there was a paid traffic study years ago, but I couldn't get the highly paid professionals to even suggest these measures in their study...

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How was this traffic issue resolved???
After we have reported and then commented on this issue as citizens, we need more than just "resolved" or "closed" in response. What was actually done???

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How long is this traffic study going to last? You can easily help now by putting a no left turn sign at Reed St.

Dear Protector,
It would also take changing the left turn arrow on the light.
And as I stated before, there was a $278,000 traffic study done of this cooridor years ago as a pre-curser to the improvements along 12th Street. Even after hours and hours of meetings, those making the study absolutely refused to make accommodations in any new design proposals to improve the flow of traffic along Rhode Island Ave.
Those making the traffic study are paid or employed by the district government and they put into their studies what they are told to put into their studies by those paying them.
Jeff Wilson on Newton Street, NE

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