Comments on: County Reaches Agreement With Army Over Arlington Nat’l Cemetery Expansion http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/ News, Weather, Traffic, Events and Reviews in Arlington, Virginia Sat, 18 May 2013 23:13:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: TomS. http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-300154 TomS. Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:36:55 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-300154 I am assuming they are also gonna bury the overhead lines when they do all this construction, they are hideous. I know Arlington is committed to undergrounding these lines. Stating the obvious, they should do it at the same time.

]]> By: Sebastian Melmoth http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295548 Sebastian Melmoth Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:36:31 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295548 that could be a song.

]]> By: ArlRidgeRes http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295541 ArlRidgeRes Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:13:22 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295541 Not an insurmountable hill….Columbia Pike used to run straight down, prior to the Pentagon and realignment/reconstruction of Washington Blvd. The present curve probably had to do with the Pentagons original plan of funneling many cars from Columbia Pike to the Pentagon and blending that traffic with new Washington Blvd traffic.

]]> By: Historian http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295261 Historian Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:50:04 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295261 The Federal government closed Freedman’s Village because of complaints of criminal activities in nearby communities. This was the result of Arlington’s first experiment with publiclallly-supported affordable housing.

You can be sure that the County’s politically correct museum will not inform the public of this rarely mentioned piece of history.

]]> By: henrybennetxviii http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295214 henrybennetxviii Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:59:47 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295214 Topography
Insanely expensive
Streetcar no make up big hill.
There is a very specific reason why the road curves.

]]> By: LoveUSA http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295178 LoveUSA Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:02:38 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295178 Um, what you mean ‘we’, kemo sabe?

]]> By: LoveUSA http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295176 LoveUSA Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:59:29 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295176 Actually, the last stop. (too easy, that one)

]]> By: LoveUSA http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295174 LoveUSA Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:57:13 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295174 ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH ARLINGTRON! Whatever plan they come up with should include safe bicycle connection from the Pentagon path to Columbia Pike near the Sheraton. Ideally to west of Washington Blvd., but that’s dreaming, I know. The present plan, to give Southgate Rd. back to the Army means that riders climbing out of the Potomac valley would have no way to work around the killer hills in Arlington Cemetary and on Lee Highway. If you ever bicycled from Memorial Bridge or the GW parkway bike trail and had to get up over the Arlington Ridge, you know the only way to do it, unless you’re some kind of 25-yr-old super-climber, was up the parking lot between the Navy Annex and the cemetery. Columbia Pike itself is too dangerous and the sidewalk is too narrow, especially for climbing. [If you're coming up from Key Bridge, you're screwed, no way around it. You just gotta put the hammer down.]

]]> By: LoveUSA http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295169 LoveUSA Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:45:29 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295169 How many museums, monuments do we need to celebrate war and military history? Given the enormous role of captured and enslaved Africans in the building of America and the fortunes of many of the richest people in America up to the time of the Civil War, I would say that in general we should have more museums. There are a heck of a lot more people who are descended from those slaves than most people realize, so yeah, another museum educating those who are interested learning more about how enslaved Africans lived, contributed to America, and survived after the Civil War, is certainly a good use of public land. Remember, it was slaves who build the Custis family’s wealth, on the very land you’re talking about. Arlington and Alexandria has/had numerous settlements of former slaves, dotted around the country, sometimes tucked behind more recently built subdivisions. Setting aside a bit of the land from the former Custis estate is entirely appropriate.

]]> By: Libby http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/10/county-reaches-agreement-with-army-over-arlington-natl-cemetery-expansion/#comment-295106 Libby Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:20:30 +0000 https://www.arlnow.com:443/?p=62991#comment-295106 Did someone say let’s debate as to whether those are good ideas worth of spending public money to build and operate……streetcars?

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