DDOT has extended the comment period on the 20th/21st/22nd Street bike lanes (aka the Western Downtown bike lanes) to allow the local ANCs to weigh in on the options. Comments are now due on February 13th. The design was presented in December, but the ANC 2B meeting where they were to be discussed ran long without a resolution. The issue was, and you're not going to believe this, some people didn't want to give up parking. The other ANC impacted is ANC 2A.
That ANC 2B meeing this month lasted more than two hours.
In the end, Chair Daniel Warwick was only able to pass a motion tabling the issue before adjourning the meeting and hustling us all out of the room.
The meeting sounds brutal, with all the usual complaints and "bikelash bingo" terms covered.
An almost universal complaint from residents was that they weren’t properly informed of DDOT’s potential changes to their neighborhood and that DDOT was rushing this. This is false. DDOT held two public meetings in 2018, at which significant public feedback was welcomed and design changes were made to the project. DDOT’s website for their PBL efforts in DC put up all the project and meeting materials, they sent press releases and media advisories around, they hung door knockers along the proposed routes.
The big "news" of the meeting was that the CFO of the Phillips Collection spoke out against bike lanes next to the museum, which resulted in a back lash from cyclists and a walk back from the museum.
DDOT has received hundreds of comments, and doesn't yet have a preferred alternative as they won't choose one until after the comment period is over.
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