Cleveland Park Streetscape and Drainage Improvement Project Meeting

DDOT will host a public meeting on the Cleveland Park Streetscape and Drainage Improvement Project on Tuesday, September 15th (was originally for August 29th) at the Cleveland Park Library at 3310 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008

The primary purpose of this project is to deal with recurring flooding problems near the Cleveland Park Metro Station, but it also has the purpose of improving pedestrian safety, access and visibility at all intersections, and upgrading public amenities (curb ramps, adding bike racks, benches, tree boxes, etc).  So... more bike parking!

In the MoveDC plan, Connecticut Avenue includes protected bike lanes from I street all the way to the Maryland boundary (which means Cleveland Park too). I don't expect that to be a part of this project - or know what the project boundaries are. But if they just put protected bike lanes in between Tilden - which has east-west bike lanes - and the Cleveland Park Metro Station (starter lanes, in you will), that would add greatly to the bike-friendliness of the area. And if DDOT plans to do it anyway...why not now? But, again, I don't expect that as part of this project. 

Comments

[fongfong]

To dream! The CP listserv already is up in arms about there potentially being a discussion about the service lane. Remember this is the area where people came to meetings wearing buttons that said "Cleveland Park!" I am not making this up.

[Crickey7]

I would not hold my breath for a bike lane on Connecticut. It's a great location for it, but the politics would be brutal.

[Uptowner]

We SHOULD expect a protected bike lane to be part of this project. It's right there in the plan that DDOT put together, and they are working on this very street. If not now, when? Some vague future?

Low expectations leads directly to low performance, and DDOT already moves incredibly slowly on these things. We don't need to give them any more excuses or lower expectations even further.

[washcycle]

I agree, and I plan to bring it up with DDOT, but...

1. This is really about drainage and planning a designing a PBL takes a lot of time. I think they're eager to fix the drainage without the delay. If DDOT already had the design done that would be different.

2. There could very well be issue with just doing the PBL in a short section of Conn. I don't know what those issues are but it would not be unreasonable for a disappearing PBL to not work here.

If you live in DC, I encourage you to write to your at-large CMs about this or to Mary Cheh if you're in Ward 3. And try to go to the meeting if you can and ask about it there. This IS a streetscape issue.