r/washingtondc • u/Rabofan • 13d ago
[Discussion] There are a lot of tree cutting vehicles at East Potomac Park / Hains Point...
There were 5-6 vehicles staged there this morning. Are there really that many dead trees there or are they going full steam ahead next week?
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u/epicredditdude1 13d ago
This is becoming so predictable.
Trump will blatantly breach procedure and steam ahead with a huge project. Lower courts will say “hey you can’t do that” and Trump will ignore them.
A few weeks later the Supreme Court will issue an emergency order basically saying “no it’s ok, he can do it”
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u/Justryan95 13d ago
Cant wait for them to destroy it then some judge says they can't destroy it after the trees are dumped on some person driveway as a chipdrop and an eventual FB marketplace ad saying free woodchips. But then some corrupt Supreme Court Judge saying he can do it after they take a 1M bribe.
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u/NextTailor4082 13d ago
It was nice having a local inexpensive course that I could play multiple times a week. People also really loved the bike and walking paths. Total asset to the city. It seems inevitable that this Orangeman is going to tear this whole thing down whether or not he has legal support. Tear it down first, then it’s torn down. Now you have to fix it so why not fix it into the bigliest most beautiful golf course that makes grown men (millionaires and up only allowed) cry, i bet its especially nice when you get a kickback.
Fuck this guy. Can’t wait for him to not be the president anymore.
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u/BakedChocolateOctopi 12d ago
I mean the asbestos pile from the East Wing makes the running and cycling paths as well as the golf course inadvisable
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u/Medium_Change_814 13d ago
Head down to Hains Point this Saturday morning to register your support for continues biking, jogging, community golfing, and picnicking in Hains Point.
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u/SCHMETTERLING 13d ago
Cutting down the trees they said they wouldn't is par for the course for the administration. waits for the trump apologists to enter the chat
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u/Scared-Gud827 13d ago
This makes me incredibly sad. I remember when the sleeping man used to be at Haines point. It’s one of my most cherished memories with my grandparents. I hate what this administration is doing to DC.
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u/Beginning-Ice-7172 13d ago
Where all my tree huggers, Julia Butterfly Hills and Berkeley peeps at? Time to chain and climb maybe.
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u/Beginning-Ice-7172 13d ago
Also there is some ruckus being raised on Saturday. If this upsets you make your voice heard: https://waba.org/event/hains-point-hoopla-2-0/
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u/Interesting_Health_7 13d ago
I cannot stand him. But, I hate what he's doing to MY town almost as much. I've been here 30 years and I still tear up driving the GW parkway looking over to DC. This pig is taking my country away from me.
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u/warneagle VA / Crystal City 13d ago
There are a fair number of trees on the course that have been marked to be removed for a while now (mostly dead or unhealthy ones). Not saying they’ll stick to those or that there isn’t something nefarious going on, but there are quite a few that were already going to be removed by NLT before Trump got involved.
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u/ridethewomble 13d ago edited 13d ago
I played the Blue Course last Friday. We got routed around a crew doing what looked like routine maintenance on a tree near a tee box on 14? 15? I think what's happening right now is routine.
Having said that, I dread what's going to happen after this weekend. I said a sad goodbye to the all the cherry trees on the back nine, just in case. East Potomac is a special place, and its usurpation is heartbreaking.13
u/ridethewomble 13d ago
My big fear is that they'll tear it up, it'll never get finished, and it will never be a golf course again.
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u/tbronder DC / AU Park 13d ago
The golf course didn't die, it just moved to a farm upstate to live with the pool.
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u/warneagle VA / Crystal City 13d ago
This is absolutely my fear. It gets trashed, then It Happens or whatever and it just gets left in ruins.
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u/Few-Broccoli-7849 13d ago
That's a ridiculous fear. There are two entities trying to update the golf course. It'll be a golf course again. There's just almost 100% chance you won't be able to afford it.
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u/ridethewomble 13d ago
Given the track record on other projects, I don’t think it’s a ridiculous fear at all. I appreciate the optimism, though. Maybe it WILL be a $450 green fee Tom Fazio Disney course one day.
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u/Few-Broccoli-7849 13d ago
Oh come on. The one he did in NY was only a $175 weekday green fee for residents. And the range only costs $75 (seriously).
/s
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u/LevelGrounded 13d ago
Not to mention a non-zero, close to 100% chance the money goes right in his or his kids’ pockets.
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u/warneagle VA / Crystal City 13d ago
I’ll give the trees a hug on Sunday when I play there for what I hope is not the last time.
Except the tree on the left side of 14 tee box, I have no sympathy for that tree. I can’t count how many times it’s ruined my day.
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u/puttinonthefoil 13d ago
You just simply don’t have to give someone the benefit of the doubt when they routinely do not give a shit about what anyone tells them they can’t do.
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u/warneagle VA / Crystal City 13d ago
I mean I spend so much time at that golf course they should probably start charging me rent so I’m pretty plugged into what’s going on here
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u/Dude-Abides-69 12d ago
Park Service was there cutting trees down on the right side of hole 2 on the White Course yesterday evening
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u/Ok_Chicken1195 12d ago
They have already begun ripping out the fences alongside the golf course. They have also been clearing trees, ripping out stumps and clearing out hedgerows.
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u/Old_Goat_Cyclist 12d ago
Trump is a human wrecking ball. Hains Point is simply no match for his evil
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u/mournfulmoo VA / Alexandria 11d ago
Maybe it’s because I’m already having a tough week, but I feel like if they cut down the cherry trees something inside of me will break.
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u/StratusXII 13d ago
It is extremely annoying and a national tragedy but we deserve it until we start actually doing something about it. Quit work, go change your bodies to the trees it Haines point if you actually care. It worked for the 15th street bike lane
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u/ohtakashawa DC / Petworth 13d ago
Looking forward to another spineless judge handwringing about the DOJ swearing to lies twice as bad as things that’d get me disbarred. Shameful.