One of the actions called for in the 2-year moveDC Action plan was a study of "long-term investments needed to serve and connect the growing activity centers of Adams Morgan/Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights, the Washington Hospital Center/McMillan Sand Filtration Site, and Brookland" which, among other things, would address the goals of expanding and upgrading the network of shared use paths AND improving and expanding for the bike network. Well, that study is kicking off early next month.
DDOT will host a public workshop to kick off the Crosstown Multimodal Transportation Study to provide an overview of the project, present existing conditions and data, share key issues, and gather community feedback.
DDOT is undertaking the Crosstown Multimodal Transportation Study to identify improvements along the east-west connections along Wards 1 and 5, address safety concerns, optimize mobility and operations, and improve efficiency for all modes along the corridor. DDOT will work with members of the community and key stakeholders to evaluate and develop a range of physical and operational improvements.
February 2nd, 6-8pm at O'Connor Auditorium on the Campus of Trinity University. The study would be completed early next year, but the 30 foot wide East-West Bicycle Gentrification-way would be built much later.
A crosstown bikeway along this route would connect the 15th Street cycletrack to the Metropolitan Branch Trail (as well as a lot of north-south bike lanes).
I'd love to see an east-west route connecting Rock Creek Park to the National Arboretum.
Posted by: Michael | January 15, 2016 at 11:37 AM
It's somewhat disappointing that the study area stops short of the MD border. I know the other side doesn't have the connection yet built to hook into the Anacostia trail system, but it'd be nice to not have a gap on both sides of the border.
Posted by: Roo_Beav | January 15, 2016 at 12:10 PM
Roo_Beav, I agree, but the limits are not set in stone. The bike element of this should connect to the RCP Trail on the west side and to Varnum Street on the east. Varnum/Arundel/Allison is the best connection to the ART from the study area. Anyway, go to the meeting and make sure they include those connections in the study.
Posted by: washcycle | January 15, 2016 at 01:44 PM
First thing is DDOT needs to map all the church locations and then move the project area as far as away from them as possible.
Posted by: Jeffb | January 15, 2016 at 02:52 PM
Or, you know, make a zig-zag church route. "Explore the churches of DC by bike!" Put in some bikeshare stations to pull in the tourists too.
Posted by: DE | January 15, 2016 at 03:35 PM
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Posted by: Marilyn | January 16, 2016 at 09:43 AM
Worth noting that this corridor involves one of the previously-proposed streetcar corridors that Bowser pulled the plug on.
Posted by: Froggie | January 18, 2016 at 09:30 AM