C Street NE Mulitimodal Corridor Study Meeting #2

The second public meeting of the C Street NE Multimodal Corridor Study will be held at Mount Moriah Baptist Church on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Open house begins at 6:00, followed by a presentation at 6:30. Details. Here's the post about Meeting #1.

The street, a "minor arterial", currently has bike lanes and is a connection to the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail on the east side. The three proposed concepts would all change this to a pair of protected bike lanes from 15th to 21st Street, with bike lanes on North Carolina to Constitution. And I mean real protected bike lanes, separated by an island where bus stops would be located.

It's unclear when this might actually be built, but the 3rd meeting is planned for September.

Comments

[Uptowner]

This is a really cool plan. Way better than most DDOT plans these days. One complaint, though, is that DDOT still hasn't discovered the "Floating Bus Stop" concept. On M St, the completely reconstructed bus stop still requires the bus to pull out of traffic, creating an awkward configuration where bus passengers and cyclists basically share a 10 foot bit of pavement. This plan for C Street shows the same configuration (bottom left photo above). I don't get it. Just push the bus stop out into the parking lane as shown here:
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2015/05/toward-the-peaceful-coexistence-of-buses-and-bikes/394217/

and here:
http://peopleforbikes.org/page/-/uploads/GLP/transit%20stop.jpg

and here:
http://bikeportland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/williams_busplatformctrack.jpg

and here (Dexter Ave, Seattle):
http://nacto.org/wp-content/themes/twentyten/images/usdg/bus-bulbs/Dexter_after2.jpg

and here (Guadeloupe St., Austin, TX):
https://goo.gl/maps/FfD9l

[JoeyDC]

For the record, THIS is the difference between a protected bike lane and a cycletrack.

This would be DC's first "real" cycletrack.

But would this remove the bike lanes on the rest of C St NE as is implied?

And as to why DC STILL gets the bus stops completely wrong is anyone's guess, but typical. They're just as bad at intersections and path to road transitions.

[JoeyDC]

Whoops. Think I have to take back the bus stop comment. it looks like they are "floating" the stop after all.

Can you clarify Uptowner?

Anyway, if so, I must hand it to DDOT after all. They may have had a tough year, but if they continue to experiment and improve, then I am grateful. It sure can be painful to watch every city go through the same slow process when so much of this has been tried before around the world and even across the U.S. with known results.