Original sentence: In the Petworth neighborhood Kansas Avenue passes through Grant Circle.It is laid out in a straight line, continuing to the southwest where it crosses Eastern Avenue entering Northeast D.It passes North Capitol Street entering the Northwest quadrant.Its northern end lies a few blocks into Takoma Park, Maryland.Kansas Avenue is a street in Washington, D
Edited sentence: (For some odd reason unknown to the author 6th Street NW does not exist in Petworth).A major intersection there is Blair Road.After crossing Blair Road, Kansas Avenue leaves the Takoma Park neighborhood.At 5th Street NW the 62 bus line turns southbound onto Kanasas Avenue.By the 1950s the current street map of DC that exists today was almost finished.From Eastern Avenue it then passes under the CSX/Amtrak/Metro railraod tracks.However, an educated gues is that the street first opened in perhaps the late 1800s.Illinois Avenue, Critteden Street, and 7th Street pass through the circle.In the Petworth neigbhorhood Kansas Avenue passes through Grant Circle.It passes North Capitol Street, entering the Northwest quadrant.It starts off Eastern Avenue NE in the Takoma Park of Washington, DC.It travels through Ward 4 throughout its existence, although its terminus at Spring Road NW marks the boundary between Wards 1 and 4.Kansas Avenue exists in Washington, DC.Kansas Avenue then hits Georgia Avenue, where the 62 line turns toward Georgia Avenue/Petworth Metro Station.Kansas Avenue, along with its counterparts Nebraska and South Dakota Avenues, are the farthest western states to have significantly travelled state avenues in DC.North Dakota Avenue, which would align with South Dakota Avenue directly, ends at Kansas Avenue.The author of this article has seen maps in the DC Historical Society where the plans for Kansas Avenue appear as early as the 1860s.The neighborhoods through which Kansas Avenue passes tend to black and middle class.The street first appears in DC maps in the late 1800s.The street is a major thoroughfare in the Petworth neighborhood.The street then passes briefly through the Brightwood neighborhood for a few blocks before hitting Missouri Avenue and Kennedy Street.These are the neighborhoods that often decide citywide elections.Thus, a ride down Kansas Avenue represents the solid black middle class of Washington, DC.Unlike New Hampshire, which continues on the other side of Columbia Heights, Kansas Avenue ends there.Ward 4 is the home of Adrian Fenty