 During the planning stages of the Rossin Campus Center in 1991 , the college asked the City of Washington to close South Lincoln Street between East Maiden and East Chestnut Street and reroute the traffic through College Street , which would have been made into a two @-@ way street . The college was concerned about the increasing frequency of accidents between pedestrians and automobiles on that street , pointing to a recent incident involving an injured maintenance worker and the fact that there had been 6 other similar accidents in the previous 15 years . The new campus center would only increase pedestrian traffic on that street . The proposal was defeated by the City Council 5 @-@ 0 . 
