The washed out section of Klingle Road is a steep, narrow, winding, unlighted ½-mile road running between Woodley Road and Porter Street - both in Ward 3. Klingle Road does not cross Rock Creek Park, but connects to roads in Ward 3 which do. Removing car traffic from Klingle has had little effect on traffic. Even before the road washed out, Klingle carried less than 2% of east-west traffic, according to DDOT. Klingle is very similar to the Zoo Road, hardly an “important artery.”

The primary advocates for re-building Klingle appear to be parents living on the east side who want the road as a private school driveway for one six upscale elementary and secondary schools at the terminus of old Klingle Road: St. Albans, the Washington International School, the Maret School, John Eaton School, Beauvoir School, and the National Cathedral School for Girls.