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In early September, I spent the better part of two days walking up,
over, and around DC-295, to understand how residents navigated a Far
Northeast Washington neighborhood that had been bisected by the
construction of a freeway in the 1950s. In return, for homes lost and
businesses destroyed, residents got three pedestrian bridges to help
them get back and forth over the traffic.

After an accident destroyed one of the bridges this summer, community
leaders demanded that city officials not only rebuild the bridge, but
reinvigorate the area by dramatically reducing the footprint of the
artery to reduce air pollution, improve mobility, and restore local
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