8th and Rhode Island Ave, NW
“Dear PoPville,
I wanted to pulse the Shaw and DC community on any improvement they’ve seen from the newly installed crosswalk lights at 8th and Rhode Island NW. Cars are still blowing through the crossing lane even when crosswalk alert lights are illuminated. Also, DC installed the press mechanism for the alert lights so far from the crosswalk for the lights, that the lights are rarely used. Is there a way for DC to fix this issue?” Here’s a video: (more…)
Photo by Eric P.
“Dear PoPville,
Does the community know where I can get a household fire extinguisher refilled/recharged? Can’t seems to find out online if DC local fire departments do it or not.”
“Dear PoPville,
I own a condo in a 9 unit condo building in DC. The building was built in 2018 by a developer who turned out to be pretty shady, and we’ve discovered a series of escalating issues with the construction. The owners who face one side of the building have had water damage during heavy rainstorms since early on; we got the full amount of the structural defect warranty money placed in bond with the city by the developer (~$50K) to partially re-side that part of the building and do some other work to fix issues with the initial construction.
Now, partway through that project, after the contractor we hired came back with a new, much higher estimate for the original scope of work — we’ve discovered that we most likely need to re-side the entire building, (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
I am curious to know how others have dealt with this: I live in a RPP zone of Mount Pleasant and have always had a IRL paper visitor permit. I have also used the app twice to get digital permits with no trouble. My current house sitter, who is visiting from AL, is registered via the Park DC Permits app, but in the last week she has twice gotten parking tickets, from the same officer. (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
So my partner and I were on a (very) long walk this morning from Pleasant Plains to Kalorama and back when we stopped to admire this bag of dog poo placed neatly on the windshield of a BMW. (more…)
photo by quemac
“Dear PoPville,
Marie Reed pool locker room thefts PSA
I had the unfortunate experience of having the lock clipped from a locker at Marie Reed while I was swimming in the pool monday afternoon. My wallet and phone was stolen – luckily not some other items that happened to not be in my pants pockets. The staff told me this had happened before and (more…)
“Dear PoPville,
When walking my dog on our usual route I noticed two trash cans on the street in Petworth/Brightwood Park had gone missing. Is trash can theft a common thing? Or is there another reason they disappeared? Should I report this to the city?”
The last time we spoke about missing trash cans folks wrote that it was actually D.C. government that is removing them on purpose because they were getting filled up with too much household trash.
via GoFundMe
“Dear PoPville,
A dear friend of mine passed away completely out of the blue on August 1st. He leaves behind a beautiful young son who will never know his dad, and an extremely impressive daughter who he doted on constantly. Dan was an incredible friend and an even better father. He was a pillar of his small Alexandria community where he was known to walk large groups of kids to school every morning.”
“Dear PoPville,
“I biked through the Adams Morgan Pedestrian Zone Sunday at 12:30, and walked through twice between 3 and 6pm. To be honest, it looked more like a mash up of the Green Zone in Baghdad, a suspicious package drill and (more…)
Photo by Phil
“Dear PoPville,
There is a heinous, headache-inducing stench all around the platform and entrances at the U Street metro. I first noticed it early last week and (more…)