As expected, the National Park Service (NPS) has once again erected fencing near the informal pedestrian path between Galloway Street NE and Gallatin Street NE to prevent people from traveling along the path. This time though it is not quite the full enclosure that was erected last year, and I saw two people casually strolling through the area yesterday. The fencing on the Gallatin Street side has been knocked down for a few days now, so not much of a deterrent. It looks like NPS is trying to restore the area to something other than a mud pit, so it is probably helpful if people do not walk in that area. NPS representatives stated at a single member district meeting of ANC Commissioner Gordon Fletcher (5A08) that they would likely have an update about the status of the path after the new year.
Friendly reminder that Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is holding her quarterly NPS town hall on December 9 at 7:00 pm. Register to receive the meeting link by sending an email to RSVP@NortonEvents@mail.house.gov.
Next Stop...Riggs Park 
It is annoying and illogical to me that they refuse to leave this wide, level, convenient, clear path open. Meanwhile the ‘temporary path’ is littered in broken glass and tree roots, is steep and twisted, dark even during the day, and inconvenient.
When I asked at the single-member district meeting the guy said ‘it’s a construction site’. That’s the most stupid excuse I’ve ever heard. Literally nothing is being constructed there and nothing ever will. This ‘construction site’ is the only path we are ever going to get (for the next several years at least, while they ‘design’ whatever alternative) and they just don’t want us to have it.