Groundbreaking ceremony for the Met Branch Trail's Ft. Totten Section will happen Saturday at 10am, also a very small section completed in MD

The groundbreaking ceremony for the MBT Brookland to Fort Totten Metro Station will be this coming Saturday July 28 from 10 to 11 am at 1^st Pl and Gallatin St NE. This is adjacent to the trail extension of Gallatin St to the Fort Totten Metro station.

Muriel Bowser will be there. This is at least the 3rd groundbreaking for a MBT section that I know of (with the last one featuring Mayor Fenty and the first one in 1998). Only 6 more to go.

October 1999 Groundbreaking:

From the 1998 Washington Post article:

An eight-year effort to create a 7.7-mile bike path linking Union Station with Silver Spring moves forward today with a scheduled groundbreaking for the first stretch.

The 0.7-mile section, bordering Catholic University in the Brookland section of Northeast Washington, is slated to be completed this summer. Congress has earmarked $8.5 million for land acquisition and construction for the remainder of the trail.

Also, a two-block section of the trail in Montgomery County - known as Phase I - was completed sometime this year, or so I noticed when I rode by in early June. That section is a sidewalk/path section on Fenton from New York Avenue to King and then west along King to the dead-end.

King Street with widened path, improved lighting and new street trees. 

Fenton with a widened path, new green buffer, street trees and improved lighting. 

Comments

[Jacob Mason]

Also, a two-block section of the trail in Montgomery County - known as Phase I - was completed sometime this year, or so I noticed when I rode by in early June. That section is a sidewalk/path section on Fenton from New York Avenue to King and then west along King to the deadend.

There, I fixed it for you.

[Washcycle]

Nope. It’s a side path. Intended for use by pedestrians and cyclists.

[Shalom]

Any updates or movement on the section north from that stub of King St? Isn't the trail supposed to parallel Selim Rd along the tracks, and then cross Georgia Ave? Would be nice to get that done before the apocalypse arrives...

[washcycle]

All I know is what they have on the website:

PHASE II

Final plan: June 2019
Start construction: October 2019
Complete construction: December 2021