Bus shelter at 8th and H Streets NE

Bus shelter at 8th and H Streets NE
Originally uploaded by rllayman

Riding on my way to class (just before 6pm yesterday) I was impressed with how disgustingly dirty this bus stop was. Clearly, installing a new bus shelter didn't change people's perceptions of the value of place. (The trash can is just to the left outside of the frame of the image.)

In talking with another area blogger, we were discussing our biggest pet peeves: litter, spitting, and double parking. So many neighborhoods in DC are incivil. It makes it hard for me to get worked up about "gentrification" and neighborhood change given the disinvestment and community mistreatment that still seems pretty rampant, more than 20 years after I first moved to the city.