The Protected Bike lane (or cycletrack) would connect the one on 1st St NE with the one on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The two-way cycle track ANC 6C formally requested last night would be on Louisiana Avenue, between Columbus Circle NE and Constitution Avenue NW. The bike lanes are intended to bridge the Pennsylvania Avenue NW bike lanes with the 1st Street NE cycle track that is under construction, helping link bike lanes that stretch across the District.
To build the bike lanes, DDOT would need the approval of the Architect of the Capitol. Louisiana Avenue NE between Columbus Circle and North Capitol Street NE has three lanes for congressional staffer parking, one of which needs to go to support the cycle track, the ANC wrote in a letter it approved last night to DDOT Director Leif Dormsjo and Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers.
It will be interesting to see whether ANC support will help DDOT put this in faster.
If the Architect of the Capitol complains, maybe DDOT could replace parallel parking further down the street with angled parking and use it to protect the cycle track.
Posted by: Zack Rules | June 18, 2015 at 02:36 PM