At the BAC meeting on Wednesday, DDOT handed out a list of bike lanes scheduled for design drawings this spring. I'm not sure if these will be built, or just designed. It's 6.6 miles of bike lane and 2.7 miles of cycletrack
- Columbia Road, NW - 16th to Connecticut - 0.86 miles
- 4th St - Eye, SW to Pennsylvania, NW - 0.87 miles
- New York Ave, NW - 9th to 15th - 0.57 miles
- New Mexico/Tunlaw Road, NW - Nebraska to 39th - 0.9 miles
- Upshur, NW - Rock Creek Church Road to Georgia - 0.64 miles
- Eye St, SE - 3rd to S. Cap - 0.33 miles
- Eye St, SW - 6th to 7th - 0.11 miles
- L, NW - Penn to New Hampshire - 0.17 miles
- Gallatin, NW - Fort Totten to New Hampshire - 0.24 miles
- Reno Rd/Tilden St., NW - 36th to Connectitcut - 0.58 miles
- R St, NW - Florida to the Met Branch Trail - 0.64 miles
- Piney Branch Rd/13th St, NW - Missouri to Georgia - 0.5 miles
And the L and M street cycletracks.
L, NW Penn to NH is going to be a challenge. Do you accomodate straight bikes or left turning bikes at NH? I do either depending on traffic. That's a crowded road in a.m. commute already with narrow lanes and cops at the police station who park at the curb during rush hour.
Good luck.
Posted by: Brendan | March 04, 2011 at 09:07 AM
Sweet. I use at least three of those with some regularity. The two-block-long lane on Columbia a bit west of 16th is ineffective.
Now, to get DDOT to enforce double parking in the bike lanes... and ask buses not to block them... and tell taxis and UPS they should pull over to the curb... and tell that dude smoking a cigar that, no, he shouldn't just stand in the lane looking at me... What, Rupert?... Yes, even him.
Posted by: Bill | March 04, 2011 at 09:16 AM
Very NW focused. NE is in dire need of better bike network, not to mention SE.
Posted by: norb | March 04, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Traffic on 4th St always seems light, at least where it crosses the mall, so I am not sure the lanes are even needed there. But I don't think it hurts.
Posted by: Purple Eagle | March 04, 2011 at 11:21 AM
agreed on L. The intersection of L and NH is a mess and mostly a result of people not knowing which way too turn.
Posted by: charlie | March 04, 2011 at 12:17 PM
The best improvement at 4th would be to get rid of the cobblestones in any bike lane between the two art museums at Penn.
Posted by: Brendan | March 05, 2011 at 07:34 AM
It's possible to pave a bike lane with cobblestones; here's one outside Copenhagen.
Posted by: Westnorth | May 05, 2011 at 12:52 PM