Best Route to Shirlington Village (Cathedral closed at Rock Creek?) (theater, closing)

[tuz]

Hello everyone,

I just moved from nice out-of-the-way Glover Park to busy heart-of-it-all Van Ness, at Connecticut and Brandywine. I'm working at Signature Theater in Shirlington Village (exit 6 or 7 off 395 in VA), mostly commuting there in the evening for 7:30pm or 8pm shows. It was easy to take "back roads" (i.e. 35th St.) through Georgetown to the Key Bridge, but it now appears that the best route from Van Ness is 34th/Reno to Mass Ave to Rock Creek Parkway (via Waterside Dr. or P St.), or Connecticut Ave to Rock Creek.

Google Maps tells me to go to Cathedral Ave. to get to the Parkway but it has been closed since I started taking this commute last week. Does anyone know if this closing (Cathedral Ave at Rock Creek Parkway) is at all temporary, or any tips on the most painless way to make this commute, especially in the evening? Or how about this Fulton->Normanstone->30th St. route I see on the map, to avoid some possible Mass Ave traffic?

Thanks all!

Jonathan

[robbobobbo]

Why don't you take Reno/34th to Cleveland, it turns into Calvert, and you get onto the Parkway just past the Omni Shoreham? That's what I usually did when I lived in Van Ness (in the Brandywine, no less). Or has something changed around there since I lived in DC? Watch for cops with radar at the bottom of the hill of Cleveland, btw.

[tuz]

Today I went around Reno via 36th and 37th streets and made it to Mass Ave in no time!!! It might have been because today was beautiful and yesterday it was pouring, but traffic or no traffic, I avoided most of the lights on Reno/34th. Made it to Shirlington in 25 minutes!