Using money from the federal transportation department's Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program, Capital Bikeshare will expand by about a third early next year, DDOT announced today.
In D.C., it will add 20 stations and 200 bikes.
Across the river in Arlington, a founding partner of the bikeshare program, "[f]unding has been identified for 16 new stations," said Dennis Leach, the Director of the Arlington Department of Transportation. "The County is interested in partnering with businesses in the corridor to expand this development."
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DDOT's press release also says that their bicycle counts found that "rush hour bicycle trips increased by 82% between 2007 and 2010 at 20 locations throughout the District."
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“I really don’t think we can add stations fast enough to match the demand and incredible enthusiasm for Capital Bikeshare," DDOT Director Gabe Klein said in a statement.
And the 15th street bike lanes are almost open for business.
Signs and white flexible posts separating bike lanes from car lanes were installed along a stretch of 15th Street NW this week. When the work is finished, cyclists will be able to take 15th Street from V Street to Pennsylvania Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue from 15th Street to the Capitol - a total of 2.5 miles - on dedicated bike lanes.The two-way cycle track includes a new bicycle traffic signal at 15th and Pennsylvania.
"We're still working on about six or seven blocks of 15th Street," Jim Sebastian, cycling coordinator for the District Department of Transportation, said Thursday. "My guys are working on the finishing touches. . . . I'm guessing it will all be open by next week."
John Lisle, a spokesman for DDOT, said as many as a dozen mostly metered parking spaces between I Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW were removed for visibility, but some of those spaces were replaced on side streets.
"Bicycling in D.C. has been increasing for many years, but we saw a real boost in the past two," DDOT Director Gabe Klein said in a statement.
Photo by Carol Guzy/Washington Post
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