Forest Hills Connection || News and Life in Our DC Neighborhood
Covering Forest Hills, Van Ness, North Cleveland Park and Wakefield
Last June, Mayor Bowser and DDOT announced new “slow streets” around the District where the speed limits would be lowered to 15 miles per hour and vehicle traffic would be limited – all to allow pedestrians and other road users to use the street for physically-distant recreation and travel. In our neighborhood, there are now […]
The reduced traffic on our roads has allowed DDOT to accelerate repaving projects. Right now, there’s resurfacing work pending or under way on eleven street segments in ANC 3F alone. The 0.35-mile segment of Van Ness Street between Connecticut Avenue and Reno Road was recently repaved. And on top of that freshly laid asphalt are […]
DDOT, on August 6th, announced the locations of more 15 MPH “slow streets” in the District, including three in Ward 3: 39th Street NW between Massachusetts Avenue and Fulton Street NW Davenport Street NW between Nebraska Avenue and Linnean Street NW Yuma Street NW between Massachusetts Avenue NW and Connecticut Avenue NW The first of […]
by Marlene Berlin The DC Department of Transportation is months into a study of Connecticut Avenue’s reversible vehicle lanes. In the current phase, DDOT is using computer models to look at how different lane configurations and usage would impact travel and safety along the 2.7-mile primary study area between Calvert and Legation Streets NW, as […]
UDC updates community on retail and campus master plan We’ll have a writeup on the August 5th virtual meeting next week, but if you don’t want to wait, you can watch the presentation by Chief Operating Officer Troy LeMaile-Stovall here: Full slate of ANC 3F candidates It looks like there will be at least one […]
From 2015 through 2019, there were more than 1,500 police-reported crashes on the section of Connecticut Avenue with reversible lanes. And though the lane is in operation only 15 percent of the time, 44 percent of those crashes occurred then. Those stats came up during the July 13th meeting of the Chevy Chase Advisory Neighborhood […]
DDOT might extend the current 36th Street “slow street” to Broad Branch Road. Or mark the length of Yuma Street between Connecticut and Massachusetts Avenues with barriers and “15 mph” signs. These are among the proposed additions to the District’s Slow Streets Initiative, which will eventually reserve 20 miles of streets for shared pedestrian, bicycle […]
by Marlene Berlin It happened with remarkable speed. On May 29th, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the DC Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced the Slow Streets Initiative, in which 20 miles of streets would be designated as shared pedestrian, bicyclist and vehicle zones for the purpose of recreation while social distancing. On June 8th, they announced […]
by the Forest Hills Connection editors On May 29th, Mayor Muriel Bowser and DDOT announced a new 20 mile-per-hour speed limit on residential streets. They also announced that 20 miles of DC streets would be designated “slow streets,” restricted to local traffic, with a 15 MPH speed limit. Slow streets allow people on foot and […]
In much of the neighborhood, it’s not terribly difficult to maintain a six-foot physical distance from our fellow pedestrians, or kids on bikes and scooters. The solution can be as simple as stepping into the street. However, even with the drop in vehicle traffic, that solution is less appealing on Connecticut Avenue, for example. Or […]
