Closing the gaps: New sidewalks for Davenport and nearby streets

A DDOT project under way through August 30th is adding the first sidewalks to one side of the 2900-3000 blocks of Davenport Street and nearby segments of Linnean Avenue and 30th Street. DDOT’s Karyn McAlister shared this map of the work area:

There have never been sidewalks on either side of these street segments.

DDOT’s work checks off more items on ANC 3F’s pedestrian safety wishlist. For several years, the ANC has been pressing the District to fill these and other sidewalk gaps in the neighborhood. Commissioners Mitch Baer and Courtney Carlson, and Paul Harrison, the current chair of the ANC’s Streets and Sidewalks Committee committee, have been the latest to press DDOT to complete the sidewalk network and create safer walking routes.

DDOT recently completed the first sidewalk on a one-block stretch of 35th Street between Alton Place and Yuma.