{"id":2616,"date":"2007-12-30T03:02:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2007-12-31T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T16:14:15","slug":"picturing-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/12\/30\/picturing-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Picturing DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON DC —<\/strong> At the risk of turning this blog into Spacing DC, I’m going to share a few more public space-related photographs from my recent trip<\/a> to Washington.<\/p>\n

First up is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No gridlock (please)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sign (pictured above) just three blocks east of the White House. What the sign intends to say is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do not block intersection.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Instead it provides humourous insight into American public policy. Even scarier, in my mind, is that the Harper Government seems intent on mimicking the Bush Administration so frequently that Canada’s national transit strategy may turn out to be a series of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No Gridlock (please)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d signs. (Actually, in fairness to the US, they have a functional national transit strategy that Canadian cities would be lucky to have seeing as here we have no strategy.)<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Red light running\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with a slash through it made me laugh out loud. If a driver isn’t going to stop for a red light, what will a wordy sign a few feet lower do? It’s a truly sad commentary on the people of a city if their elected leadership feels it necessary to demean them with a sign like that.<\/p>\n

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Maybe this is the Yellow Cab Company’s attempt at humour but yellow this cab is not.<\/p>\n

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More impressively, the picture above shows a public art work outside of the Corcoran Gallery of Art<\/a>. It may never make it into the gallery itself, but patrons have affixed colourful visitor badges to several posts outside the Corcoran.<\/p>\n

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Here is a pedestrian countdown at 41 for a two lane street. It started at 59 and the flashing hand began going at 15. Starting the countdown with the beginning of the light seems like an asset for pedestrians so why not try it here?<\/p>\n

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In front of the White House is a very conflicted space. The presidential palace and the blocks surrounding it are crawling with police and not-so-secret Secret Service officers. As an added security measure, no unauthorized vehicle is permitted to enter the road in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That leaves a vast four lane road more or less free for pedestrians and cyclists. Yet very few people actually use it as most keep to the sidewalks, unsure how jaywalking laws are enforced in this grey area.<\/p>\n

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This sign advises that you’re being monitored by police.<\/p>\n

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The turquoise sign advertises a charter school<\/a>. As a Torontonian, I hear the word school and I associate it with more than just classrooms. Schools include playgrounds, parks, soccer fields, baseball diamonds and basketball courts. In Washington there are fewer traditional public schools because charter schools (autonomous schools that receive public funding), which are generally just a few rooms in a commercial building,\u00a0were determined to be the solution to a local school board that was perceived to have failed to meet the needs of its students.<\/p>\n

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Fair representation in congress has long been an issue<\/a> for Washington residents. This sign appeared in a planter on 14th Street.
\nNo Red Light Running photograph by KimberleyJane24<\/a>. Pennsylvania Avenue photograph by dmolsen<\/a>. All other photographs by Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON DC — At the risk of turning this blog into Spacing DC, I’m going to share a few more public space-related photographs from my recent trip to Washington. First up is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No gridlock (please)\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sign (pictured above) just three blocks east of the White House. 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