Whats a Wendys doing there? The story of Washingtons weirdest traffic circle.

[elleng]

'First things first. There’s a Wendy’s in the middle of the intersection. Hard to get around that.

It’s been there since the mid-’80s, on a wedge of land bordered by First Street NE and Florida and New York avenues, at a major gateway to Washington, D.C. Surrounding the Wendy’s is a “virtual traffic circle,” a polite way to refer to this urban aneurysm — a pair of triangles, really, with a roundabout movement forced upon them. . .

It was the ongoing story of America, in a triangle of misbegotten land: a place between present and future, downtown and out-of-town, between where you are vs. where you want to be. Flowers gave way to railroads, gas gave way to fast food.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/whats-a-wendys-doing-there-the-story-of-washingtons-weirdest-traffic-circle/2017/12/25/461f7fea-dea4-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.8081933f859f

[cbreezen]

1. How's your cat?

[doc03]

2. Cool you can get off in the roundabout and get a bowl of chili to eat while

stuck in traffic, should be more of those. I am surprised all traffic circles in Ohio don't have one of those, our next governor
could make a promise to have a Wendy's on every corner.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. I was just about to post that. Thanks.

I knew where it was. I've been through there.

“First things first. There's a Wendy's in the middle of the intersection. Hard to get around that.”

Love @MrDanZak on Dave Thomas Circle. Delightful read —>

Link to tweet

[elleng]

4. Fortunately I have NOT been there!