![]() ![]() ![]() There are Twitter accounts named after the faux landmark itself and the effort to fix it. I'm already nostalgic for Dave Thomas Circle.- Matt Cohen February 2, 2021ĭave Thomas Circle is such a recognized impediment to Washington commuters that the Washington Post published a history of the intersection - home to a Wendy’s since the mid-1980s and organized in its current configuration since 2010 - in 2017. Mayor Muriel Bowser in a statement released late Monday, February 1, that used the word “notorious” to describe the triangular plot bordering New York Avenue NE, Florida Avenue NE, and First Street NE. “Almost every Washingtonian has their own Dave Thomas Circle horror story,” reads an actual quote from D.C. will pay the property owner $13.1 million as part of a plan to demolish the Wendy’s and improve one of the city’s most dangerous intersections with linearly flowing traffic, bike lanes, and three new parks. Bisnow reports that court documents filed this week show D.C. sees Dave Thomas Circle - not to be confused with Thomas Circle, an actual monument to Union Army general George Henry Thomas - as such a blight it has invoked eminent domain to acquire the property. This phenomena could explain why anyone online is even joking about mourning for the Wendy’s on New York Avenue NE, the epicenter of a traffic morass humorously nicknamed “Dave Thomas Circle” that will disappear by next year as part of a city government plan to improve transportation safety.ĭ.C. The object of hatred - say, a fast food franchise plunked in the middle of a busy intersection that makes no sense - is so universally despised that a community develops a collective angst around it. Sometimes you hate something so much that the hate becomes a form of love. ![]()
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