DC Water’s Soapstone sewer rehabilitation project is almost done. Since the project started in March 2022, the century-old system of sewer lines running through the valley have been sealed and strengthened with new linings. Soapstone Creek has been reconstructed to protect the sewer system and watershed from stormwater erosion and damage. The most recent milestone, […]
ANC 3F June 17 agenda: DDOT’s Connecticut Avenue safety project; Canna Art’s medical cannabis license application; the Bowser budget
In April last year, under questioning from Ward 3 Council member Matt Frumin, DDOT director Sharon Kershbaum revealed that bike lanes would be cut from the agency’s upper Connecticut Avenue safety improvement project. DDOT unveiled its new thinking at a June 24, 2024 public meeting, describing and showing preliminary renderings including: Reduction of vehicular travel […]
ANC 3F June 18 agenda: CM Matt Frumin; Connecticut Avenue project; New ANC 3F commissioner
Ward 3 Council member Matt Frumin is joining ANC 3F’s June 18th meeting for two reasons: to talk DC housing, and to swear in the advisory neighborhood commission’s newest member. Frumin has made building more and affordable housing in Ward 3 one of his top policy and budget priorities since he was a candidate for […]
Neighborhood in the News: DCist closure questions, the return of UDC’s student newspaper, bumpy ride for bike lanes
Questions remain after WAMU’s DCist shutdown. And the cuts announced in February went deeper than the online news site, as Washingtonian’s Andrew Beaujon reveals in his deeply reported article, the result of several interviews with current and former WAMU employees and the public radio station’s general manager. Welcome back to UDC’s The Trilogy. A decade […]
June 3 and 4 community meetings: DDOT’s new Connecticut Ave. plan, DC Water’s Soapstone project street closures
It’s been nearly 18 months since DDOT’s most recent public presentation about the Connecticut Avenue Multimodal Safety Improvement Project. At a January 2023 ANC 3C committee meeting DDOT hinted at new concept designs that we may never see. The reason: On April 11th of this year, DDOT’s acting director announced that the safety project would […]
Neighborhood in the News: Protected Connecticut Ave. bike lanes are out, the embassy protesters are always in, and DCist 2.0
Still on DDOT’s Connecticut Avenue safety to-do list: Left-turn lanes and curb extensions. No longer on the list: bike lanes. DDOT Director Sharon Kershbaum revealed the new plan during the DC Council’s budget hearing for the agency, under questioning by Ward 3 Council member Matt Frumin. View this post on Instagram A post shared by […]
Opinion: The Connecticut Ave. safety project should not be weakened – it holds the promise of Vision Zero.
by Julia K. Stevenson When committing to Vision Zero in 2015, Mayor Bowser made us all a promise: She pledged to bring roadway fatalities and serious injury numbers down to zero by 2024. She was acknowledging that such trauma is not an inevitable consequence of modern times; rather, that it is preventable if we commit […]
Opinion: The case for better Connecticut Avenue bus service, and how advocacy could make it happen
by Marlene Berlin As WMATA develops its “Better Bus” regionwide plan, a big question for residents along upper Connecticut Avenue is whether bus service really will be better: faster, more reliable, and more frequent. There’s a case to be made that Connecticut needs all of the above. But getting there will require more advocacy by […]
Opinion: The Connecticut Avenue project has a new timeline. And it needs a new name.
by Marlene Berlin DDOT’s name for its Connecticut Avenue project has changed, and so has its timeline. The project involves reconfiguring travel lanes and bus stops, and adding bike lanes to the 2.7 miles of Connecticut between Calvert and Legation Streets. Axios reported last week that the timeline for the project has shifted because DDOT […]
DDOT considers narrower bike lanes, more parking and dropoff spaces for next Connecticut Ave. safety study concept
Early DDOT concepts for a safer Connecticut Avenue included removing all street parking in the stretches between commercial areas. DDOT officials hinted at a January 19th public meeting that the next concept reveal will be different. Call it “a spoiler alert,” DDOT’s Ed Stollof told the meeting hosted by the Cleveland Park Community Association and […]