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They’re four for four now. The four advisory neighborhood commissions in the Connecticut Avenue reversible lane study area have passed resolutions in support of a concept that removes the rush-hour lanes and adds bike lanes north of Calvert Street NW. The Chevy Chase ANC held the fourth and final vote. On Monday, April 26th, five […]
In case you missed it: The Washington Post published an article last weekend over the Connecticut Avenue reversible lanes and bike lanes proposals. The Post article includes some details of the safety study and a small business perspective that we have not covered in our own stories about the DDOT study: Adding protected bike lanes […]
by Marlene Berlin I got to ride the Metro a couple of weeks ago. This was not a planned trip, but I boarded willingly due to car trouble and my desire to get back on the horse after my Covid-19 vaccination. When I boarded at the NIH Metro stop, the station and cars were nearly […]
The end of May is also the end of the District’s Slow Streets program as we know it. The slow streets were intended to give people on foot and on bikes more elbow room. But drivers routinely ignore the 15 mile-per-hour speed limit. As DCist reports, signs have been removed, and the barriers moved or […]
The L2 Metrobus stops at Cumberland and outside the Forest Hills of DC home have been moved. The southbound Cumberland stop and shelter is now north of the Davenport intersection. The northbound Forest Hills of DC/Everett Street stop has been moved south to Ellicott. DDOT wanted to move the stops for the safety of passengers […]
DDOT presented traffic analysis findings from its Connecticut Avenue reversible lane/bike lane study at ANC meetings in February, including a virtual town hall meeting hosted by ANC 3F on Wednesday, February 24th: A presentation at the February 11th ANC 3E meeting revealed more information on the study’s focus and methodology, new since our update based […]
by Marlene Berlin As part of its study of alternatives to Connecticut Avenue’s reversible lanes, DDOT introduced four concepts in June for running through traffic models. The agency now proposes dropping two of the four concepts from its study. We wrote a detailed article about the concepts and the study area, so to sum up: […]
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 […]
