From: "Rob" <indianrob@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2012 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: opposition to Car barn at Spingarn Re: [ward5] ugent please circulate to the fullest
To: <ward5@yahoogroups.com>
Hell Gwendolyn,
A library or moreso an olympic size indoor pool with high diving boards to accompany a revitalized school cluster that will encompass golf, swimming, track and field, indoor hockey and soccer is not reason enough? No other school cluster has a golf course adjacent to it.
Furthermore, Lets not be fooled by this "job/training" smoke and mirrors pipe. That training can be implemented at any location. By the way, they don't need a "barn" to do this, we have many existing bus "barns" that training can be implemented at right now. Why haven't they started training yet - because they are shovelling horse crap. Let them start there before they guve out anymore free horse diarretics!
Electric Buses are more green, use less energy, less carbon footprint, already has housing and can be towed easier and don't need wiring as well as $50 to more million to accomplished. For a few dollars more, the bus can have a shape like a teolley to make folks feel more "elite"!
Hope those are good enough reasons.
If not, we should equally put a trolley barn at Sidwell friends and on River Road acrooss from Avenel golf course. As for the waste of trolleys we already have, we can make some mobile flower trolleys and put then in front of certain folks homes as a reminder of wasting our kids and city'$ $$$$.
Rob Ramson.
I too have not heard a reason that it should not be located there. I feel the more important question should be what does to bring to the community? I'll be the first to stand up to make sure that residents / students are trained and given an opportunity to gain a skill that will make them eligible for employment now and for the future. Spingarn has had a declining enrollment for years. Perhaps, if there is a partnership developed with both high schools, that would ensure internships and education in sustainable and green transportation, this would help the enrollment problem.
Sent from my iPadI'm not bickering with anyone. I'm just trying to get some sound responses/reasons that have weighed all sides. All responses seem to be based off emotions, instead of a thorough assessment. There's always some reason for opposition and support. I'm not sold on neither the yays nor nays on the Carbarn.
Jamie
On Sep 24, 2012 10:22 AM, "Wendy Lewis" <wendy_lewis2@yahoo.com> wrote:Because I don't see why not!?It needs a place to be people will complain about anything! I haven't heard a reason that is so substantial that I would be like gasp...... Don't put that there!And if I'm not mistaken aren't the tracks ending/ beginning right there on Benning road!?We are talking about the trolley that will be coming soon.....right!?After so much bickering I lose trackKnowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.=But, why Wendy?
What is your reasoning for it?
What are the advantages of having the Carbarn there?
Jamie
On Sep 24, 2012 9:55 AM, "Wendy Lewis" <wendy_lewis2@yahoo.com> wrote:I am a parent of a Spingarn student!Bring on the carbarn!Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I believe in hearing from all stakeholders before I formulate a full opinion on the matter. Those are important people to speak to. And, yes, every immediate action DOES lead to the bigger picture.
Jamie
On Sep 24, 2012 9:37 AM, "Debbie Smith-Steiner" <DLSmith112@msn.com> wrote:Great questions! However, with the decline in DCPS high school enrollment, the current number of students and personnel currently housed in that building, the current Ward 5 production line of Charter schools, how long do you think it will be before that school will be closed? Thinking the immediate will not help us long term.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.Booker T. WashingtonWhat do the principals and parents of these schools have to say? Had anyone weighed their input?
Jamie
On Sep 23, 2012 10:38 PM, "KPW" <WKPW3@aol.com> wrote:Some on the listserv don't buy that ploy to make the car barn a place for education enrichment too. Some of us think that there are better suited places for the car barn and the city waited until the last minute to look for more suitable places. Some on the listserv thought that Union Station or RFK parking lot would have been better but we get excuses, excuses why not. The aim is not to stop the streetcar even if one does not think that is the best use of funds, but to locate the car barn in a place other than school for our young people.
Anyway...
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From: Gwendolyn Faulkner <gfaulk@aol.com>
To: ward5 <ward5@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 23, 2012 10:29 pm
Subject: Re: [ward5] ugent please circulate to the fullest
Why are we opposed to the car barn? I thought that there would be some educational advantage for students at Spingarn and Phelps.
Sent from my iPadThe key here is: get it on record on how the carbarn needs to move
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. WashingtonI thought they already told us our opinion and concerns didn't matter and that they were only concerned with H Street. Our councilmember submitted a letter of opposition and they still didn't care. People don't even care if you vote for them these days. I'm just glad to see Bloomingdale getting some attention about the flooding. At least now I know that somebody knows how to get something done.
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From: Debbie Smith-Steiner <DLSmith112@msn.com>
To: ward5 <ward5@yahoogroups.com>; brentwooddc <brentwooddc@yahoogroups.com>; trinidad <trinidad@yahoogroups.com>; Lamond-Riggs@yahoogroups.com <lamond-riggs@yahoogroups.com>; brookland Heartbeat <brookland@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 23, 2012 7:21 pm
Subject: [ward5] ugent please circulate to the fullest
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION55 N STREET SEDC STREETCAR TEAM IS REQUESTINGCOMMENTS REGARDING STREETCARLAST DAY TO CALL OR EMAIL IS TOMORROW, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2012EMAIL: INFO@DCSTREETCAR.COMPlease call or email and let the DC Streetcar Team know that we in Ward 5 do not want a carbarn located on Spingar Senior High School grounds.P lease encourage your ward 5 contacts to call and email as well. We need to let the DC Streetcar Team know, Ward 5 is unhappy about having a carbarn on the front lawn of Spingarn Senior High School in Ward 5.Thanks
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington
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