Looking at the last of the studies, the South Dakota Avenue Transportation & Streetscape Study from 2007, on DDOT's new website (which I hope will be fixed to include all of the other reports they used to have and that I used to have links for, but which no longer work) there is very little of interest to cyclists. The study area is of South Dakota Avenue NE from Hamilton Street near Fort Totten to New York Avenue/Route 50. That it hardly mentions cyclists in the recommendations is odd, since South Dakota actually has one of DC's few bicycle sidepaths from 33rd Place to Blandesburg Rd and since at one meeting people suggested adding bike lanes and connecting to the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail on the south end.
About the existing conditions the study determined that
The only off-road bike facilities exist on the east side of South Dakota Avenue between New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road. This is an asphalt path located parallel to the sidewalk on the east side. The path has many problems including long grades and overhanging vegetation. Generally, bicycle level of service along this route appears to be fair to poor. South of Bladensburg the bicycle LOS is generally C, while northwards the LOS varies from D to E.
So it doesn't sound good - and they're wrong about the problematic sidepath, it doesn't go all the way to New York Avenue. Nonetheless, only one recommendation involves cyclists and that's to move the signed bike route which runs on Newton.
Relocate bike route to travel through the South Dakota Avenue/22nd Street signalized intersection using signage.
Newton only has a stop sign. 22nd is a little south of Newton, but I'm not sure how a cyclist would use that unless they were going to detour onto the sidewalk or onto Monroe. The only other thing of note is that we now know how much it costs to paint a bike lane. It's $1.80 per linear foot.
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