Residents carefully pick their way across the street, past the fences erected by Metro for construction of the Green Line. Cars and buses slowly snake through the intersection, waiting for workers to signal them forward. The lengthy construction of the Columbia Heights Metro stop, scheduled to be completed in late 1999, is but one of the issues facing the neighborhood, but it's at the forefront. I couldn't believe it. They had part of the road closed off, and we had to detour all around.
Many residents feel that their neighborhood has been severely disrupted.
14th Street, a major thoroughfare. And some homeowners have reported cracks in their ceilings and foundations, which they assume were caused by drilling into the ground. And the rats over there are absolutely horrible. A second Green Line station, Georgia Avenue-Petworth, is also under construction nearby. 14th Street provides a ready way to Silver Spring to the north, or downtown and across the bridge to Virginia.