While it doesn't appear that 2010 will have quite as many big items as 2009 did, there is still much to be excited about.
Winter
Work starts on phase I of the Long Bridge Park with it's bike lanes an Esplanade.
Capitol Hill Bikes reopens at new location.
Construction begins on the two bridges that carry the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail over the railroad tracks.
DDOT to break ground on the Rhode Island Avenue Metro Bridge to the Met Branch Trail.
Spring
Construction Starts on Phase IV of the College Park Trolley Trail.
Eisenhower Avenue Bike Trail opens - the last bicycle element of the Wilson Bridge Project.
Metropolitan Branch Trail's R street gap should open sometime in the spring allowing users to ride the trail from L to Franklin.
Massive Smartbike expansion by May. Announcement should come sooner.
The Crystal City Commuter Hub opens.
Summer
Completion of the new Humpback Bridge along the Mt. Vernon Trail, which will provide for a much wider Active Transportation Lane as well as underpasses on both the Virginia and DC sides.
Fall
Washington Boulevard Trail Phase II starts work
???
Arlington Boulevard Trail Renovation
Rte 110 South Trail (Memorial Dr to Pentagon)
Columbia Pike parallel routes (Wayne to Quincy Sts, both sides)
Rosslyn Intersection Improvements (everything except Lynn St underpass)
That's all I can think of at least.
Photo by William Couch
I remain super-bearish on any smart bike expansion.
Posted by: JTS | December 31, 2009 at 10:15 AM
That quote from Gabe Klein is very recent. I just can't believe he would say May 2010 so definitively if he wasn't confident of that. From what I hear, he is very excited about SmartBike expansion and very involved in it. It may not be May, but I'd wager a $1 that it'll be 2010.
Posted by: Washcycle | December 31, 2009 at 10:51 AM
yeah, i hear you. I'd probably take that bet though. I am willing to give Gabe and DDOT's bike team the benefit of the doubt, but I'd be surprised if DC's myriad interest groups got in the way, if only to have a say in, say, the location of the kiosks or to protest one going in on their block or whatever. I'm hoping that they elected to use Bixi so that infrastructural considerations could be mitigated (solar powered vs. relying on wired electricity). Plus, we don't know if maintenance contracts have been bidded on and awarded, what the costs are going to be like, or how the membership structure (if one is to exist) is going to work. Having been around DC long enough to know that these issues unfortunately take a minimum of a year to sort out, I'd be surprised to see this in 2010. But that said, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sure...
Posted by: JTS | December 31, 2009 at 01:46 PM