For many years, before Klingle Road was washed out and closed, I found it being used when I would come home from east of Rock Creek Park, where I often went to reach Georgia and New Hampshire avenues and Silver Spring.  It was both an alternative to the boring trip straight up Porter Street to the heart of Cleveland Park where I live, and a refreshing taste of green, shady roadway on summer days.

Thus, although I am a member of the Sierra Club, whose local chapter wants to turn the road into a green and shady path for bikers and hiders and dog walkers, I feel it should be rebuilt for regular vehicular traffic so it can still serve drivers needing a convenient route across that part of the park.

For people like me, not able to hike or bike, and having no dog, it could still provide a glimpse of nature and a route preferable to the congestion of Porter Street and Connecticut Avenue.  And where Klingle joins Woodley Road, one goes on to Mount St. Albann, where the Cathedral soars.

Not enough money to rebuild this lovely and useful road?  What are property taxes for?